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Opinion by Van Jones
Updated 2:59 PM ET, Sat November 20, 2021
(CNN)Verdicts in criminal courts should make communities safer and our streets less dangerous. But the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of killing two people and shooting another during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020 will almost certainly do the reverse.
Are we moving toward a nation that condones White vigilante violence?
It is unavoidable that many on the far right will see it that way. It sends the signal to others that they are free to launch armed attacks to impose their version of the law — and then claim self-defense. The likely impact of this verdict will be to turn the American political landscape into even more of a “wild, wild west” scenario.
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Carl Sagan
Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/20/opinions/kyle-rittenhouse-acquittal-future-in-america-van-jones/index.html