Reckoning With The Rittenhouse Verdict
What A Day
What A Day
4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
After four days of deliberation, a Wisconsin jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts on Friday. As a defendant, Rittenhouse had a strong case under the law, but over the weekend, people expressed their discontent with the verdict. We discuss the result in the broader context of the criminal justice system and its bearing on issues of race in America.
And in headlines: protesters took to the streets in several European cities against COVID restrictions, Sudan’s Prime Minister was reinstated after being arrested during a military coup, and more childless adults in the U.S. say they are unlikely to ever have kids.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 22nd. I'm getting resin. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice. And this is what a day. |
| 0:11.4 | The podcast that briefly was president last week when Biden was getting his colonoscopy. |
| 0:15.8 | Yeah, it has to do with a very old and confusing law the founding fathers wrote about podcasts. |
| 0:20.9 | Legal scholars disagree, but in my opinion, we were president last week and we could have declared war. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, demonstrators take to the streets in several European cities to protest |
| 0:35.2 | COVID restrictions, plus a growing number of American adults say it is unlikely they'll have children. |
| 0:40.8 | But first, on Friday, after four days of deliberation, a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts. |
| 0:47.5 | We the jury find the defendant Kyle H. Rittenhouse not guilty. |
| 0:52.0 | Rittenhouse faced several charges, including first degree murder, attempted murder, and reckless |
| 0:56.2 | endagement among others. Yeah, and Josie, we want to get your whole breakdown of all of this |
| 1:01.7 | because this was obviously a case that, you know, the whole country was watching. |
| 1:05.4 | Yeah, if you were anywhere near the internet, you may have seen the highly divided reactions, |
| 1:10.3 | which tended to correlate with partisan politics. For those on the left, the acquittal was yet another |
| 1:16.2 | example of a failed justice system that allows white men like Rittenhouse to get away with things |
| 1:20.2 | that others could not. For conservatives, they said it was a well-deserved result, and that |
| 1:25.6 | Rittenhouse had basically been politically persecuted. And so over the weekend, everyone chimed in from |
| 1:31.6 | President Biden, who said in a statement that the decision, quote, will leave many Americans |
| 1:35.8 | feeling angry and concerned by self-included. And there was also former president Trump, who |
| 1:41.1 | praised the decision. Okay, so before we get into all of this, for those who need a refresher here, |
| 1:46.8 | Rittenhouse was arrested in August of 2020 after he shot and killed two people and wounded a third |
| 1:52.5 | at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. At the time, he was a minor 17 years old. |
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