Thread by @BrendanNyhan

All can be true:
-Rittenhouse's reckless decisions resulted in a situation that left three people dead
-He benefited from his race in countless ways
-A lot of commentary is pushing a simple narrative about the events and law that can't withstand scrutiny persuasion.community/p/the-rittenho…

Obviously typo above, two people dead and a third shot but not killed

this is well-said

https://twitter.com/JakeMGrumbach/status/1462176991679893505?s=20

To be clear, there’s a very straightforward claim that a black man in the same situation would have been killed by police in the same situation or found guilty despite the technical details of self-defense law.

And that one can make that claim without doing violence to the details of what happened or what law is on the books.