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Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal is America being America.

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Jack Mirkinson
Nov 19, 2021
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There is not much to be said about the total acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse that we didn’t know before. The verdict felt unsurprising, and that means something. It is blindingly obvious that if a young Black kid had swept into a town carrying a large automatic weapon he had no legal right to be using, and wound up shooting and killing mult…

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