Kyle Rittenhouse must be protected from campus mobs
Rittenhouse has every right to attend ASU in person and has every right to expect that he can do so safely
By Jonathan Turley | Fox New
President Joe Biden and media figures are not the only ones who are "angry" after a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of five charges stemming from his fatal shooting two men and the wounding of a third during rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020.
Many are using the verdict as an excuse to denounce the entire legal system as racist, even though the makeup of the Rittenhouse jury – 11 Whites and one African American – is identical to the jury that recently convicted three men in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Critics also ignore that much of the coverage of the Rittenhouse case ignored evidence supporting his claim of self-defense.
Now students and groups at Arizona State University are planning a rally against Rittenhouse and demanding that he be expelled. Demands for such extrajudicial punishments may seem legitimate to critics of the verdict with leaders like Biden calling Rittenhouse a "white supremacist" before any investigation was completed and legal analysts calling the entire trial "white supremacy on steroids." Rittenhouse is likely to face such campaigns to bar him from any campus as he seeks to continue his education.
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