Legal experts went in with the expectation that this was going to be a very solid self defense for kile. The prosecution relied heavily on videos, and it relied on unwitnessed testimony. In this case, he's a chaos tourist. And n the moment a little bet f that caos comes, chaos comes back at him. He colarly shoots i instead of fignding det. It clearly became a refer dom on gun wrights, how you felt about self defense laws,. How you felt about racial iniquities in the justice system. Who has access to story telling and who has access to money for solid defense representation.
After the Chicago Tribune’s Stacy St. Clair runs through the Rittenhouse trial and verdict, legal scholar Eric Ruben explains how “self-defense” can apply to shooting unarmed people in public.
Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Miles Bryan with help from Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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