The Right to Self Defence

Rittenhaus, then 17, killed two men with his a r 15 style assault rifle. He claimed self defence in the chaos of canosia last august. Two days earlier, a white cop had shot a black man seven times in the back. The case has echoes of travon martin, nine years earlier. Both times, wantoby cops misidentify burglary suspects. Young black men shot dead. Gunman claims self defense. No one's arrested. For weeks, a jury later found george zimmerman, martin's killer, not guilty of murder. In that georgia case, closing argument will begin to morrow. Only one black juror will