What Next: Was the Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Inevitable?

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

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Last August, then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse crossed state lines with a semi-automatic rifle, and fatally shot two people and wounded another during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse’s lawyers leaned heavily on the teenager's right to defend himself. In Wisconsin, that means the prosecution had to disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. Was it inevitable that Rittenhouse would walk free? And how did the community react when he did? Guest: Stacy St. Clair, reporter for the Chicago Tribune. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, real quick, there are a couple of swear words in this episode.
0:03.9	They're used in the context of quoting people at a protest.
0:07.0	You've been warned.
0:12.9	If you hadn't already heard your fill from Kyle Rittenhouse, Fox News was happy to give
0:18.4	you one more chance to listen to him Monday night.
0:22.2	Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight.
0:25.0	Watching Tucker Carlson interview Rittenhouse, it was easy to forget that this teenager
0:30.2	was facing homicide charges just last week.
0:34.8	Why are you so calm?
0:37.2	I'm a naturally calm person.
0:39.0	I don't find I find it to be a problem when people are overreacting because things
0:44.5	are out of our control.
0:47.0	So I try not to deal with that.
0:49.8	Huh?
0:50.8	I mean, just for the believe me on the inside, I'm freaking out.
0:54.0	Well, you must be, I mean, for the record, I kept waiting for Carlson to ask some
0:58.1	pretty simple questions, like, have you apologized to the families of the people you
1:02.8	hurt?
1:04.2	But this was not that kind of interview.
1:06.3	What a sweet kid.
1:07.3	I think that comes through loud and clear.
1:09.8	Instead, it was all about Kyle, the teenager who brought an AR-15 to racial justice protests
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