The Lunatic Left Claims Rittenhouse Verdict Means 'Open Season' on Protesters, BLM Chants 'Burn the Precinct'.
On Friday, after a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on charges stemming from the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year, one noticed two interrelated trends.First, there was the cacophony of voices on the left declaring that the verdict meant open season on protesters. You got the impression, reading their articles and tweets, that a racist judge and jury had given racist, conservative white men everywhere permission to grab their guns, go out and just pick off daisy-picking protesters at random.To them, it was like deputizing all of right-wing America to act like the National Guard at Kent State. Men and women on the Right Side of History™ wouldn’t just be facing down injustice, they’d be facing down a veritable army of vigilantes pointing guns at them.
Then, in cities from New York to Portland, Oregon, we saw ugly glimpses of the mentality that led to the Rittenhouse shootings last year.Not as intense, mind you — the winter of 2021 has nothing on the summer of 2020, at least when it comes to “fiery but mostly peaceful protests” — but it’s not difficult to see how the situation in Kenosha escalated last year when a group of Black Lives Matter activists takes to the streets of New York, chanting, “Every city, every town, burn the precinct to the ground.”
