{"id":1036344,"date":"2021-11-20T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036344"},"modified":"2021-11-20T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T16:44:37","slug":"white-vigilante-violence-cnns-anderson-cooper-and-van-jones-discuss-rittenhouse-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-vigilante-violence-cnns-anderson-cooper-and-van-jones-discuss-rittenhouse-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018White Vigilante Violence\u2019: CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper And Van Jones Discuss Rittenhouse Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fwhite-vigilante-violence-cnns-anderson-cooper-and-van-jones-discuss-rittenhouse-verdict%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=1036344&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>In a conversation with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, commentator Van Jones argued that Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal will encourage \u201cwhite vigilante violence\u201d in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do respect the jury system, and I do appreciate what the President had to say,\u201d Jones said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a reason that people are upset. And it\u2019s that there\u2019s a bigger context here. \u201cThis idea of white vigilante violence is something that we have to wrestle with\u2026 We have got a pattern now, where white men feel that they have the right to enforce the law themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomehow, there is a group of people that think that they have the right to take the law into their own hands,\u201d continued Jones, citing the January 6 riot, as well as the Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery cases. \u201cThey can leave their home with guns and they can enforce their vision of the law on other people. That is a big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThere is a bigger context here,\u201d says CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VanJones68?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VanJones68<\/a> about the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal. \u201cThis idea of White vigilante violence is something that we have to wrestle with\u2026 We have got a pattern now, where White men feel that they have the right to enforce the law.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g0SYzJ1R4e\">pic.twitter.com\/g0SYzJ1R4e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0 (@AC360) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AC360\/status\/1461867382775992322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse \u2014 an eighteen-year-old who fatally shot two men and injured a third while defending himself during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin \u2014 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty\">cleared<\/a> of murder charges on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the victory of Donald Trump in the election of 2016, Van Jones likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/09\/politics\/van-jones-results-disappointment-cnntv\/index.html\">rushed<\/a> to forward a race-based narrative. \u201cYou tell your kids don\u2019t be a bully, you tell your kids don\u2019t be a bigot\u2026 and then you have this outcome,\u201d the CNN analyst said. \u201cYou have people putting children to bed tonight and they are afraid of breakfast. They\u2019re afraid of \u2018How do I explain this to my children?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a whitelash against a changing country,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt was whitelash against a black president in part. And that\u2019s the part where the pain comes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-responds-to-rittenhouse-being-found-not-guilty-feeling-angry-and-concerned\">statement<\/a> from President Joe Biden to which Jones referred says that the commander-in-chief feels \u201cangry and concerned\u201d by the jury\u2019s decision in the Rittenhouse case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken,\u201d the presidet explained. \u201cI ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a conversation with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, commentator Van Jones argued that Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal will encourage \u201cwhite vigilante violence\u201d in the United States.\u201cI do respect the jury system, and I do appreciate what the President had to say,\u201d Jones said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a reason that people are upset. And it\u2019s that there\u2019s a bigger context here. \u201cThis idea of white vigilante violence is something that we have to wrestle with\u2026 We have got a pattern now, where white men feel that they have the right to enforce the law themselves.\u201d\u201cSomehow, there is a group of people that think that they have the right to take the law into their own hands,\u201d continued Jones, citing the January 6 riot, as well as the Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery cases. \u201cThey can leave their home with guns and they can enforce their vision of the law on other people. That is a big problem.\u201d\u201cThere is a bigger context here,\u201d says CNN\u2019s @VanJones68 about the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal. \u201cThis idea of White vigilante violence is something that we have to wrestle with\u2026 We have got a pattern now, where White men feel that they have the right to enforce the law.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/g0SYzJ1R4e\u2014 Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0 (@AC360) November 20, 2021Rittenhouse \u2014 an eighteen-year-old who fatally shot two men and injured a third while defending himself during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin \u2014 was cleared of murder charges on Friday.Following the victory of Donald Trump in the election of 2016, Van Jones likewise rushed to forward a race-based narrative. \u201cYou tell your kids don\u2019t be a bully, you tell your kids don\u2019t be a bigot\u2026 and then you have this outcome,\u201d the CNN analyst said. \u201cYou have people putting children to bed tonight and they are afraid of breakfast. They\u2019re afraid of \u2018How do I explain this to my children?\u2019\u201d\u201cThis was a whitelash against a changing country,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt was whitelash against a black president in part. And that\u2019s the part where the pain comes.\u201dThe statement from President Joe Biden to which Jones referred says that the commander-in-chief feels \u201cangry and concerned\u201d by the jury\u2019s decision in the Rittenhouse case.\u201cWhile the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken,\u201d the presidet explained. \u201cI ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us. I know that we\u2019re not going to heal our country\u2019s wounds overnight, but I remain steadfast in my commitment to do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law.\u201d\u201cI urge everyone to express their views peacefully, consistent with the rule of law,\u201d Biden added. \u201cViolence and destruction of property have no place in our democracy.\u201dMSNBC legal analyst Julius Kim also argued that the unanimous verdict sends \u201cthe wrong message.\u201d\u201cThis was a tough case for the state to make, because we had what we call \u2018bad facts\u2019 in terms of the state\u2019s case,\u201d Kim said. \u201cKyle Rittenhouse was attacked; he was chased, and he was also approached by someone who had a handgun in his hands.\u201d\u201cThere were a lot of witness problems for the state in this case,\u201d Kim added, acknowledging that the prosecution\u2019s witnesses strengthened Rittenhouse\u2019s case. \u201cI think all of us who can see, we aren\u2019t terribly surprised by the verdicts that we now have in front of us. But I am concerned that the wrong message has been sent to other people in the community.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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