AIBU to think USA has gone crazy - Karmelo Anthony is a murderer not a victim

You also said ‘my point still stands’ meaning pushing someone you have asked to leave 15 times from a place he was not supposed to be is ok to result in your death from a knife through the heart

No, I’m not. KR went out because he was desperate to get involved. He took his gun because he wanted trouble. Reports of him
shooting without thinking were common. He wanted an excuse. KA took a weapon out and was looking for trouble. He wanted an excuse. Just because the situations were different, I don’t think the intention was different at all. If anything, I think KR was more certain he would get away with it.

If he had been black or Hispanic you and I both know he would have been convicted of murder. That is the crux of the issue.

No, there is a difference. Kenosha was on fire and mayhem before Rittenhouse turned up. A man chased another one down, grabbed his gun and what, the guy with the guy with the gun was supposed to interpet the other one was not a threat in the middle of a city burning to the ground? Vs a guy at a sports event carrying a knife who stabbed another man because of, I don't know, throwing some shade?

Come on, are you really not getting the distinction?

The white male privilege which means he’s now stabbed to death and his non white killer is strolling round a prison block in rude health?

I know he wasn’t, I have already said upthread it was a typo.

You cannot read the article but presume to report on its contents? Since you are struggling I will say it in one sentence:

Black men are being lynched but the murders are being written off as suicides or accidents.

The two sentences visible for those who do not wish to register for free to read the civil rights report say:
A new civil rights report argues that lynchings of Black men didn't end in America — they evolved — and that some deaths today may still be misclassified as suicides or accidents.

note the word misclassified
do let me know if you can’t understand as I would be all to happy to also define misclassified as well.

Again with the ‘happy to help’, I don’t know why people use this when it invalidates any point you’re making.

And thank you for your opinion but I disagree. I followed the case closely and read extensively, Rittenhouse should have been done for murder.

I thought it was common knowledge as it has been widely written about and acknowledged within Sociological circles for decades. The case has been proven. The UK also has a negative racial bias against Black men, although to a lesser extreme degree.

University students at Harvard know it, so why don’t you? You just didn’t bother to read about the justice system before forming an opinion on a conviction being protested as unduly harsh due to a proven negative racial bias?
https://studentreview.hks.harvard.edu/justice-for-a-few-racial-disparity-in-the-criminal-justice-system-of-the-united-states/

He did murder people and he was acquitted - not sure what I got wrong there?

I meant pushed, typo. Point still stands

Your understanding of the Rittenshouse case is incorrect. HTH.

You don’t know anything about my ideology at all, you’re simply making assumptions because I am calling you out on your points.
I have said, repeatedly, that they both should have been convicted of murder and jailed.

That’s not true. His attorney is Mike Howard, who hasn’t worked as a public defender in over 15 years. He’s a private attorney.

I think he should have been convicted for his crime and it is murder. However, if you look at the case of Kyle Rittenhouse or Lucy Harrison's father, both murdered people and are not in prison, they claimed self defense or 'accidental misfire' and were acquitted or not even charged. Instances like this are rife in America, where white men are not culpable but black boys and men are.

I'm not saying his supporters are right, I think they are totally wrong but neither were Kyle Rittenhouse' and he got acquitted.

Great- no one can read the article. But what the first two lines that are visible says that black men commit suicide and are involved in accidents = lynching. I'd hazard a guess that in the UK, men make up the bulk of suicides, of all races, and many deaths are noted by the coroner as accidental. This is not evidence of lynchings of black men in the US in 2026 😂

When you have some serious evidence for lynchings of black men in the US in the last few years, please do come back to me. Bye, troll.

No one punched him.

But you could easily say the same about KA’s defence ‘some guy punched him, he didn’t know if he had a knife or gun, or if he was going to hit him, so he stabbed him’. Sorry, but you can’t use that defence for one and let him get off and then condemn the other. They BOTH should have been convicted. Instead the white man who cried gets hailed as a hero and the black man is jailed. You have to be able to admit there is a difference here? They both should have been done for murder.

It was not all white - it was a mix of white, Asian, Middle Eastern and Hispanic.

there is no evidence he was a bully and since when did bullying equate to deserving death even if he was

What is racism?

Welcome to the trolls!

I think what you are missing is the environment and context of the time.... And now. If an unarmed man chased me and grabbed my gun, I'd shoot. I have no idea who this man is, no idea if he has a knife, no idea if he has a concealed weapon etc. etc. I know this is an alien concept to to British people but for people, like me, that come from countries where guns are "normal", we'd shoot.

And to be clear, the unreset was happening before Rittenhouse turned up. That's why he was there. Kenosha was burning after Jacob Blake pulled a knife on armed police. It's really simple: if you live in a country with armed police and they engage you, you comply with orders.

It's out and out racism.

BLACK LIVES MATTER.