The Rittenhouse judge is seeking to divide the country along race lines. He is stating minorities don’t have the same standing as Caucasian people. He is trying to create tension and not justice.
He is setting precedent to sway the jury and legitimize the use of weapons of war on the streets of the USA against unarmed minorities.
If the deaths and injuries of the Rittenhouse vigilantism were conducted during a crime, the lives and maiming have rights. Rittenhouse has no legal standing except vigilante. There were police at the scene and were not engaged in armed assault.
Self-defense is non-sense. He doesn’t live there and was not performing a vital task to save lives and property. There were police legally hired and employed by the people.
When someone openly carries a weapon of war into a crowd of unarmed people there is only one motive, mass murder. What makes him any different from the mass murder in Las Vegas? A hotel instead of a street? A concert instead of a protest? Killing for the sake of killing is a crime. There was no self-defense.
How can a vigilante claim self-defense? He didn’t even belong there.
Rittenhouse was approached by a person with a handgun because he was killing people. The people were trying to disarm him. In doing so, the people were using self-defense to end his assault. Rittenhouse was the perpetrator and the others were attempting to disarm him and end his ability to kill.