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Speak Out allows readers to comment on the issues of the day. Email Speak Out at speakout@southtownstar.com or call 312-222-2427. Please limit comments to 30 seconds or about 120 words and give your first name and your hometown.
In regard to Kyle Rittenhouse’s verdict, are these jurors out of their minds? He killed two people. I’ll bet the verdict would have been different if he would have killed one of the juror’s sons. How must these families feel. I’m disgusted.
Susie, Orland Park
Now that Kyle Rittenhouse has been exonerated in Wisconsin for the murders of two people, will the state of Illinois prosecute his mother for child delinquency since he was 17 and going to Wisconsin?
LT, Glenwood
Proving once again the United States is a country that devalues human life and loves money, a 17-yearold punk enthralled with
the Proud Boys makes a fatal decision to go someplace he never should have been, kills two people and is found not guilty of murder. However, Bernie Madoff steals millions of dollars from billionaires and ends up getting 150 years.
Marv, Bridgeview
I’m glad the jury didn’t cave to the pressures of a biased media and the threats of protesters. Lately we have become a nation of mob rule rather than law and order.
Guy, Oak Lawn
The judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial should be ashamed of himself. The fact that he would not allow the people who were killed to be called victims but did
call the people who were protesting rioters says all you need to know about this old man white judge. How could it possibly self-defense when a 17-year-old travels to a different state because he wants to pretend to be a cop, and then the trouble he causes gets people to get angry with him, and he’s the only one carrying a weapon and the only one who killed people, but of course he’s going to be acquitted.
Due to the idiosyncrasies, idiocies and vagarities of Wisconsin state law regarding self-defense and stand your ground, there was very little chance that Kyle Rittenhouse would be convicted of murder. It is uncomfortable to have to acknowledge this reality that the law ensured that justice could not and would not be done. Two men are dead and a third is maimed and crippled for life. But Kyle Rittenhouse has a clean slate and no record.