The Cause and Effects of “Sham” Trials
Competent police departments are perfectly capable of investigating perspective self-defense cases and rendering an accurate conclusion as to whether or not a case actually does involve a matter of legal self-defense. Why then do we have bogus trials?
There was, however, a second verdict in that courtroom for those who have been maintaining a distorted or incomplete account to this trial. From the outset, politicians and media figures insisted that this was a case of murders committed by a white supremacist. Then-presidential candidate Joe Biden labeled Rittenhouse a “white supremacist” in a tweet showing his photo and demanded to know why then-President Donald Trump did not “disavow white supremacists.” Much of the media followed suit with an echo chamber of coverage that led some people to believe that these were essentially executions on the streets of Kenosha. Columnist Elie Mystal called the trial a sham.
The sine qua non for a prosecutor to make a case in a court of law is having a case. We’ve seen two good examples, in Zimmerman and Rittenhouse, of expensive (in more ways than one) trials where there was no legal case against the accused. If there was justice to be had in either one of those noted cases, it was attained at the street level prior to the police investigation—and competent police investigations reflected that.
Now we have seen innocent children, among others, slaughtered in a parade, apparently due to the fake narrative propagated by the real protagonist’s—some politicians and the major news media.
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