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I mean, I'm not a Charlottesville expert, but isn't this a completely fabricated narrative that the courts made stick to signal that they hate white supremacists? My recollection is that the fatality there was only slightly less justifiable than the incident with Rittenhouse; a bunch of counterprotesters surrounded a white supremacist's car and threatened him to signal the strength of their political convictions, and eventually he panicked, tried to drive away, and struck and killed one of them. This seems less like a case of going out to murder one's political opponents and more like a demonstration of why blocking cars is not a nonviolent form of protest.
I've begun to actively loathe twitter, because so many good source of information are now trapped in twisted, labyrinthian multi-threaded posts that are a bitch and a half to store offline.
Anyways, here's a good thread that breaks down the entire charlottesville debacle. Take away from that what you want, but I personally feel this was yet another case of a political lynching.
Oh, and one of the protesters blatantly admitted to brandishing rifle at the guy earlier.
I started a wiki, Memory Whole (https://memorywhole.tv/), inspired by the idea that a lot of the analysis and events on twitter is useful to know, but too fleeting and drowned in noise.
I currently have signups enabled, but I have to manually add people to the editors group. I'm planning to do a big announcement soon
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You can watch the video on Wikipedia for yourself. He was driving into the crowd at speed well before he was surrounded. Also you're, uhh, not allowed to kill people who happen to be part of a crowd because different people who are part of the same crowd surrounded your car. It is in fact extremely key to Rittenhouse's case that the people he shot were people attacking him.
"at speed"
approx. 25mph down a street, he brakes before the crowd, his car is then hit with a bat or pole at :03 and he accelerates into the crowd
this isn't a person who intended to ram a crowd or planned to do it; James Fields is likely guilty of a crime, but what he was actually charged with and convicted of at both the state and federal level is entirely political persecution and his sentence is completely ridiculous
the trial was a clownshow, the judge's decision like disqualifying Field's attorney for a "conflict of interest" was ridiculous, and many of his other decisions throughout the trial were agenda-driven to get the result he wanted from a hanging jury picked for that purpose
the claim about being surrounded and having a gun pointed at him was that it happened further up the street before the car is first caught on camera in the video you linked by a different group of people
sadly unsurprising this is entirely unmentioned on the wikipedia
the fact the entire ordeal was caught on camera in HD and the charges were even brought let alone taken to trial is a miscarriage of justice and happened because of a political agenda
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It was basically a Reginald Denny situation.
It was not. I encourage you to watch the video. At the point Field's car goes down the street passed the camera man he could simply have stopped, put it in reverse, and backed away from the crowd. You can tell this is possible because it's exactly what he does seconds later, after he has driven into the crowd.
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He charged toward the crowd at 25 miles per hour.
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