From the New York Post:
AOC slams Kyle Rittenhouse’s release on $2M bond as ‘law and disorder’
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday slammed what she called a “double standard” within the criminal justice system after accused Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse was sprung from jail on a $2 million bond.
The 17-year-old’s release on Friday had sparked outrage on social media from some Democrats who argued it was an example of racial privilege within the system.
“Does anyone believe Rittenhouse would be released if he were Muslim & did the same thing in a diff context?” Ocasio-Cortez asked on Twitter.
People who argue that dramatic changes to policing, including budgetary ones, will mean “violent people will be let out of jail to roam free” rarely ever acknowledge that’s actually the current system we have today for the privileged https://t.co/MXnm6h3PdZ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 21, 2020
Does anyone believe Rittenhouse would be released if he were Muslim & did the same thing in a diff context? For people who say “systemic racism doesn’t exist,” this is what it looks like: protection of white supremacy baked deep into our carceral systems.
Law and disorder.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 21, 2020
The Left has to inject race into everything. Everything. Racism is in everything and nothing is without racism.
Kyle Rittenhouse is claiming self-defense.
AOC would have you believe that he went on a mass shooting spree and that the only reason he was given bail is that he’s white.
Rittenhouse was able to afford the $2 million bail because of an online fundraiser backed by a Hollywood D-list celebrity.
At the same time, big-name Hollywood celebrities like Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, and Ben Schwartz, as well as vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, supported a fund to bail Antifa rioters out of jail.
That’s not privilege, but Rittenhouse is.
She wasn’t the only one.
Chesa Boudin, the DA od San Francisco hopped onto this as well.
Anyone want to understand the failings of money bail?
Look no further: strong evidence of a white shooter motivated by racial bias committing a double murder with an assault rifle.
But wealth sets him free. https://t.co/035xR53idQ
— Chesa Boudin (@chesaboudin) November 20, 2020
Miguel and I have both written about Boudin. He is the son of two Weather Underground members and ended prosecution in San Francisco for quality of life crimes.
He’s attacking a 17-year-old from a working-class family like he’s a millionaire.
The point of this is to poison the jury pool and pop-culture against Rittenhouse.
If you don’t watch the video, you’d think that a Rittenhouse opened fire into a crowd of peaceful black people then his wealthy parents bailed him out.
They want him convicted, not on the facts of the case but because they want you to believe he’s a wealthy, privileged, white supremacist who needs to pay.
If Rittenhouse is exonerated by the evidence, the poisoning of the pop-culture will cause riots that made the Rodney King riots look tame.
It’s despicably unethical for a sitting Congresswoman and DA to say shit like this from their official Twitter accounts about a case that hasn’t going to trial yet, but despicably unethical is on-brand for Progressive Democrats.
They’re not even trying to acknowledge reality. ISTR Rittenhouse is Hispanic, and every person who attacked him was white. I don’t care about either of those things, personally, but they’ve made it their primary way of discerning “injustice”.
The left’s chutzpah in this is breath-taking.
Had the shooting happened in A-hole-C’s NY district he would’ve immediately released without bail.
Even AOC admitted the flaw in her screed itself: “… in a diff context.”
Context is KEY.
“Does anyone believe Rittenhouse would be released if he were Muslim & did the same thing in a diff context?”
Let’s split this up.
If Rittenhouse was muslim. Yes, he would be released on bail if he shot three people in what any reasonable person would see as self defense.
In a different context. Well, what is the context? Would muslim Rittenhouse be attacking the infidels? Would it be a negligent discharge? What is the context?
For someone who is involved in writing and passing the laws, this individual demonstrates almost zero knowledge of the law, and how it is applied.
This is the rising star of the democrat party? God help us.
I wish Kyle’s defense team would hire Andrew Branca of the Law of Self Defense. He made a very cogent argument (just after the event) as to why the shootings were legitimate self defense.