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On this week's court TV podcast,

should the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin be held responsible

for the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings last summer.

A lawyer for one of his victims thinks so, and Court TV's Michael Ayala interviewed her to find out why.

We have that interview, plus friend of of the podcast Eklund mercy joins me to discuss if the police should be held accountable.

This is the Court TV Podcast with Vinny Polytan.

I'm Vinny Polytan.

Thank you so much for listening and downloading the podcast.

Now, we cover our system of justice and in our system of justice

there's a group of attorneys who I think get a bad rap who I like to defend from

time to time and I'm talking about people that you may refer to as

ambulance chasers, plaintiff's attorneys, people that go around and sue people. And people always look at them like oh you know what what are they doing they're just

chasing money well there's a purpose for our civil system of justice and that's to

kind of keep people in check and keep people

honest and keep our system honest. If we didn't have these plaintiffs

attorneys, these civil attorneys who are out there suing companies and corporations and people who have

harmed others, there would be no incentive for our products to be safe, there would be no incentive

for people to drive safely. I mean there would be no incentive for people to drive safely.

I mean, there would be absolute chaos in the world.

So I'm thankful for the plaintiff's attorneys who I think unjustly are referred to as ambulance chasers because the work they do is important.

I mean because sometimes people are wrong but it's not a crime so you're not going to lock somebody up but you can sue them and then you can deter them and others from engaging

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