Thread by @AsheAdams

This was hard to watch. I saw watching this live as it happened, and I can only imagine what it was like to have been there. There is additional footage that proves this was self defense. But where have we heard that before lately... 1/
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Kyle did nothing wrong, and the fact that he is the only one from that night being charged with a crime is an obscene stain on our legal system, and I am ashamed of my state, myself, and my fellow citizens for letting this happen. 2/

How many people have to face the justice of this mob? A mob that screams from this hilltops that they are the oppressed when their mere whim is enough to put a man to death. This power they weild is reasonless, malicious, unsistainable, and profoundly unamerican. 3/

Kyle Rittenhouse is not a murderer. Anyone with two braincells that can rub together can see that. If you deny it, you're in a cult that refuses the evidence of its eyes in favor of the want of its heart. And if the want of your heart is hate and violence, then you need help. 4/

We're looking down the barrel at more rioting. More unrest. More death. That's not in question at this point. It's going to happen. My only fear is that no one will learn, and the NPC armies that make up American politics will keep marching towards something no one should want.5/

We cannot let our country go on like this. My words will likely be suppressed because I dared to type a name in full. I don't give a fuck. Scream it from your rooftops if you must. Kyle Rittenhouse could be Voldemort himself and I would still want him free of these charges. 6/

This is not our country. This is not MY country, and I am ashamed I am seeing it like this and feel I have not done enough to preserve what it was. 7/

If #KyleRittenhouse is charged, if #JakeGardner died to be forgotten, if #DavidDorn's sacrifice was for nothing...

It's on us.

We can't let our democracy fold to the will of violence, hate, and fear.

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