{"id":1036063,"date":"2021-11-20T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036063"},"modified":"2021-11-20T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:29:19","slug":"cnns-cuomo-odd-that-rittenhouse-verdict-critics-arent-upset-about-attacker-who-pointed-gun-at-him-escaping-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-cuomo-odd-that-rittenhouse-verdict-critics-arent-upset-about-attacker-who-pointed-gun-at-him-escaping-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#039;s Cuomo: Odd That Rittenhouse Verdict Critics Aren&#039;t Upset about Attacker Who Pointed Gun at Him Escaping Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnns-cuomo-odd-that-rittenhouse-verdict-critics-arent-upset-about-attacker-who-pointed-gun-at-him-escaping-scrutiny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036063&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-959168730.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of CNN\u2019s \u201cCuomo Primetime,\u201d host Chris Cuomo reacted to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict by criticizing Wisconsin law and Rittenhouse\u2019s judgment while also arguing that \u201cThe jury is not the bad guy. Race is not the bad guy. Politics is not the bad guy.\u201d Cuomo also asked, \u201chave you heard anybody ask why the third person he shot, the man with the gun who was chasing him and pointed it at him and came at him, why he escaped all police scrutiny? None of the people who were angry about this verdict see anything curious about that situation.\u201d Additionally, Cuomo pointed out that none of the people who Rittenhouse shot were shot because they were protesting, they were shot because they were chasing Rittenhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo began by saying, \u201c[T]here\u2019s plenty to be upset about. It is too easy to kill in this society, and our laws make it so. And yet, there are too many tonight offering a jaundiced view of this case. \u2026 And there are no questions here tonight that this outcome is problematic. It is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He added, \u201cThese calls that I\u2019m hearing and you\u2019re hearing that this jury should have found some way to punish this guy, they\u2019re troubling. Because they ignore the laws at play. The president says he stands by the jury and its conclusion. But many of his supporters are saying this is an injustice because too many other kids get in trouble for way less. Are we about the law or are we about revenge? Saying he was not allowed to have the gun is not true, read the Wisconsin law. You can not like the law, but he was within the rights that the state affords. You can criticize the law. You should. He didn\u2019t violate it. It\u2019s a more relevant question to ask \u2014 and I know you\u2019re not going to like this, but if you want to talk about the law, have you heard anybody ask why the third person he shot, the man with the gun who was chasing him and pointed it at him and came at him, why he escaped all police scrutiny? None of the people who were angry about this verdict see anything curious about that situation. Justice is blind, right? So, it should be blind to politics as well, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cuomo continued, \u201cAgain, I\u2019m not happy. There\u2019s nothing to be happy about here. Today\u2019s verdict of not guilty doesn\u2019t mean the actions on August 25 were innocent. They weren\u2019t innocent, by all indications. Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, they\u2019re dead, their lives cut short, their families ruined. Dying because you went to protest a police shooting is not what this country\u2019s about. It\u2019s also not what happened. It wasn\u2019t protesting that got them killed. It was chasing after a guy with a loaded weapon. And it is the laws of Wisconsin that allowed that 17-year-old to carry a weapon that night and it is the law of Wisconsin that creates a ridiculously low bar to defend yourself with deadly force. Gaige Grosskreutz, his right arm is wrecked. But, again, he had a gun that he drew and went at Rittenhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo further stated that the law in Wisconsin is \u201crecklessly forgiving\u201d and that \u201cit was gross judgment that took this guy to Kenosha, the decision to take an AR-15 to a situation like this, to hang with a bunch of white would-be protectors, to be ignored by the police, to engage with angry protesters, and to see deadly force with that weapon as his only way to deal with pursuers. They are all bad choices. But it is only the last, what he did when chased, that mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo concluded his monologue by stating, \u201cThe jury is not the bad guy. Race is not the bad guy. Politics is not the bad guy. This statute is. And there are many like it, a growing number, actually. It\u2019s right akin to stand your ground. It\u2019s absolutely too easy to kill. And, yes, it came too easily to Kyle Rittenhouse. He put himself in a bad situation, for a bad reason, with bad people, and he made bad choices, and he killed people and hurt people. He\u2019s no hero. But beware the politics here. Depending on what team you\u2019re on these days, he\u2019s either a vigilante killer or he\u2019s Captain America. Which is he? Who cares. It\u2019s not the right question. The law isn\u2019t about his character or his politics or his animus, not in this case. It\u2019s about his actions and his intentions and what the facts justified or not under the law. You want a different outcome \u2014 and you might \u2014 change the standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ian&nbsp;Hanchett on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of CNN\u2019s \u201cCuomo Primetime,\u201d host Chris Cuomo reacted to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict by criticizing Wisconsin law and Rittenhouse\u2019s judgment while also arguing that \u201cThe jury is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}