I love your wry sense of humor and this is an excellent article.

One thing I hated about this case - the assumption that Rittenhouse was guilty and the refusal of the media to publish all the facts. If you just read the media accounts, you'd think something totally different than if you read the witness testimony at the trial and saw the actual, complete video footage.

Rittenhouse was presumed innocent until proven guilty by the court. That is the standard of law in this country, for very good reasons, and it protects ALL of us.

I don't agree with Rittenhouse's decision to go into a war zone, which is what Kenosha seems to have become. I think his parents should not have given him permission to do so. That being said - he did NOT, in fact, break the law and he was NOT, based on actual evidence, the aggressor. Besides which, given that all the participants were white, it's hard to see this as a racially motivated killing, which is what some of the media coverage implied.

Another thing that I only found out after the trial began, when I did a little more digging, was that Rosenbaum was a convicted child molester. While that is irrelevant to the case, it lost any sympathy I had for his death. On the one hand, we had a former Boy Scout, a kid who had offered aid to injured people, running away from a mob. On the other hand we had adult men in aggressive pursuit. Why is anyone who actually did the research surprised by the outcome of the case?