Can our children understand why Rittenhouse, a teenager carrying an AR-15-style rifle, was allowed to walk away from the scene of his alleged crime, past police cars, and return to his home in Illinois, while Jacob Blake was Tasered, shot seven times in the back, left paralyzed and still, until Friday, was handcuffed to his hospital bed while fighting for his life? We do not have enough details to answer that question with certainty, indeed police have offered only some information, but we cannot turn away from our moral obligation to keep asking it.
If they haven't already been ideologically possessed and you give them all of the information, I think many of them could figure it out. It isn't hard. Rittenhouse approached police with his hands up and complied with their orders; Blake had a warrant out for his arrest for violent crimes, didn't comply with officers, actively tried to fight with officers and reached inside of his vehicle in which a knife was later found.
It's really not hard to see a huge difference between those two interactions.
I think most people avoid looking at this stuff. I think most people who look at it, and are given basic facts (i.e: one resisted arrest, the other didn't - plus there's a lot more reasons and details), come to the same conclusion.
We're just screaming at the people who inhale propaganda like a bag of Doritos at 2AM. That's one battle. The other battle is the empathy of people who are barely aware or have any information and just get their good nature taken advantage of. Those people have to stop voting for the same things that cause the problems they feel empathetic to.
If they haven't already been ideologically possessed and you give them all of the information, I think many of them could figure it out. It isn't hard. Rittenhouse approached police with his hands up and complied with their orders; Blake had a warrant out for his arrest for violent crimes, didn't comply with officers, actively tried to fight with officers and reached inside of his vehicle in which a knife was later found.
It's really not hard to see a huge difference between those two interactions.
I think most people avoid looking at this stuff. I think most people who look at it, and are given basic facts (i.e: one resisted arrest, the other didn't - plus there's a lot more reasons and details), come to the same conclusion.
We're just screaming at the people who inhale propaganda like a bag of Doritos at 2AM. That's one battle. The other battle is the empathy of people who are barely aware or have any information and just get their good nature taken advantage of. Those people have to stop voting for the same things that cause the problems they feel empathetic to.