{"id":1036305,"date":"2021-11-20T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036305"},"modified":"2021-11-20T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T16:29:32","slug":"famously-woke-nba-releases-statement-on-rittenhouse-verdict-claims-rittenhouses-attackers-were-peacefully-protesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famously-woke-nba-releases-statement-on-rittenhouse-verdict-claims-rittenhouses-attackers-were-peacefully-protesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Famously Woke NBA Releases Statement On Rittenhouse Verdict, Claims Rittenhouse\u2019s Attackers Were Peacefully Protesting"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffamously-woke-nba-releases-statement-on-rittenhouse-verdict-claims-rittenhouses-attackers-were-peacefully-protesting%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=1036305&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--><p>The NBA, known for kowtowing to China over human rights violations, released a statement following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse that claimed he was a vigilante and the men who attacked him were peacefully protesting.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s National Basketball Social Justice Coalition Executive Director James Cadogan released a statement about the verdict, which said:<\/p>\n<p><em>Our thoughts are with the families of those whose lives were taken in this tragedy. The right to peacefully protest is a bedrock of our democracy and the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition remains committed to preserving that right for all. Any forms of vigilantism in our society are unacceptable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Statement from National Basketball Social Justice Coalition Executive Director James Cadogan on the verdict in Kenosha, Wisconsin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5jjTtssON2\">pic.twitter.com\/5jjTtssON2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1461860226576048131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTuber Lauren Chen noted the error of the NBA\u2019s statement: \u201cThe vigilantes were the people who were committing violence because they were upset Jacob Blake got shot resisting arrest and carrying a knife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The vigilantes were the people who were committing violence because they were upset Jacob Blake got shot resisting arrest and carrying a knife<\/p>\n<p>Also aren\u2019t you supposed to do basketball<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheLaurenChen\/status\/1461905649768570883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, as the trial showed, Rittenhouse acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber before injuring Gaige Grosskreutz. The two men Rittenhouse shot had attacked him before they were shot, and Grosskreutz pointed his gun at Rittenhouse\u2019s head before he was shot and injured. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Rittenhouse pled not guilty to all charges. His attorneys argued that he acted in self-defense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The murder trial began on Nov. 1 and lasted two weeks and a day. The jury was out for \u2014 days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The prosecution and the defense made their closing arguments on Monday, prosecutors arguing that Rittenhouse was an \u201cactive shooter\u201d who threatened those around him illegally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As CNN surprisingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/19\/us\/legal-experts-what-helped-rittenhouse-acquittal\/index.html\">noted<\/a>, legal experts explained that the prosecution failed to prove that Rittenhouse was an active shooter when video evidence showed he acted in self-defense when he was attacked:<\/p>\n<p><em>What the trial came down to, according to civil rights attorney Charles F. Coleman Jr. were two competing narratives: one of Rittenhouse being a victim who was attacked, and one of being a vigilante who provoked the violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe jury bought the narrative of Kyle Rittenhouse being a victim, they thought that his self-defense claim was a lot stronger than the prosecution\u2019s provocation claim,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another defense attorney, Sara Azari, told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA, known for kowtowing to China over human rights violations, released a statement following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse that claimed he was a vigilante and the men who attacked him were peacefully protesting.The NBA\u2019s National Basketball Social Justice Coalition Executive Director James Cadogan released a statement about the verdict, which said:Our thoughts are with the families of those whose lives were taken in this tragedy. The right to peacefully protest is a bedrock of our democracy and the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition remains committed to preserving that right for all. Any forms of vigilantism in our society are unacceptable.Statement from National Basketball Social Justice Coalition Executive Director James Cadogan on the verdict in Kenosha, Wisconsin. pic.twitter.com\/5jjTtssON2\u2014 NBA (@NBA) November 20, 2021YouTuber Lauren Chen noted the error of the NBA\u2019s statement: \u201cThe vigilantes were the people who were committing violence because they were upset Jacob Blake got shot resisting arrest and carrying a knife.\u201dThe vigilantes were the people who were committing violence because they were upset Jacob Blake got shot resisting arrest and carrying a knifeAlso aren\u2019t you supposed to do basketball\u2014 Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) November 20, 2021Indeed, as the trial showed, Rittenhouse acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber before injuring Gaige Grosskreutz. The two men Rittenhouse shot had attacked him before they were shot, and Grosskreutz pointed his gun at Rittenhouse\u2019s head before he was shot and injured. As The Daily Wire reported:Rittenhouse pled not guilty to all charges. His attorneys argued that he acted in self-defense.The murder trial began on Nov. 1 and lasted two weeks and a day. The jury was out for \u2014 days.The prosecution and the defense made their closing arguments on Monday, prosecutors arguing that Rittenhouse was an \u201cactive shooter\u201d who threatened those around him illegally.As CNN surprisingly noted, legal experts explained that the prosecution failed to prove that Rittenhouse was an active shooter when video evidence showed he acted in self-defense when he was attacked:What the trial came down to, according to civil rights attorney Charles F. Coleman Jr. were two competing narratives: one of Rittenhouse being a victim who was attacked, and one of being a vigilante who provoked the violence.\u201cThe jury bought the narrative of Kyle Rittenhouse being a victim, they thought that his self-defense claim was a lot stronger than the prosecution\u2019s provocation claim,\u201d he said.Another defense attorney, Sara Azari, told CNN that prosecutors \u201cweren\u2019t able to show that his response to each of these men, to each of these sets of threats was unreasonable.\u201d\u201cWhen the jury came back a couple days ago and watched the videos\u2026 frame by frame, they were looking to see whether Kyle did something to provoke the threat and whether his response to that threat was reasonable in terms of using deadly force and they agreed with the defense that it was,\u201d Azari added.Rittenhouse\u2019s own defense attorney, Mark Richards, made this clear during the trial.\u201cThis case is not a game, this is my client\u2019s life,\u201d said Rittenhouse\u2019s attorney, Mark Richards.\u00a0\u201cEvery person who was shot was attacking Kyle.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"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-1036305","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\/1036305","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\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036305\/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=1036305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}