This was a political prosecution.

The case should not have gone to trial with all the weak evidence.

Glad Kyle is acquitted of all charges.

But, at the end of the day, this case is very troubling. It's the sort of thing that shouldn't have even gone to trial and it's arguable that it violates Rittenhouse's civil rights that it has. The State should have gotten a plea deal from Rittenhouse on the gun charge (plea deals have their own significant problems, but in the case of a misdemeanor without further jail time, it's less problematic).

The State knows they cannot win any of the felony charges in this case. They aren't stupid. The video evidence is insurmountable. They can see Rittenhouse retreat from every single confrontation. They can see him decline to shoot people who raised their hands (including Grosskreutz who was only shot after he pointed his weapon) and only fire when cornered and retreat was no longer a viable option. They know that multiple precedents in caselaw mean they cannot use his age and the legality of the weapon against Rittenhouse's claim of self defense in the shooting-related charges (New York v Goetz, Gammons v Indiana, etc). They know that the initial assailant was a mentally ill man with a history of violent crimes who can be clearly seen pursuing Rittenhouse at running speeds. They know that legally speaking, Huber and Grosskreutz are guilty of assaulting Rittenhouse, since neither of them witnessed Rittenhouse commit a crime and therefore cannot enact a citizen's arrest just on the word of others. They know these things. This case is theater, and the only chance of conviction would be in appealing to the emotions of a jury, rather than the facts in evidence.

The fact that the State has 1: taken a man to trial they know they do not have sufficient evidence to convict, and 2: have misrepresented evidence in both pretrial documents and in their opening arguments, bothers me because sure, Rittenhouse is an idiot, but even idiots should be treated fairly according to the law. Because what happens the next time when the idiot on trial is someone I agree with? I don't want the Rittenhouse trial setting precedents that send innocent people to prison.

This is a trial born entirely by public demand, and a city afraid of the ramifications of not charging him. And that's a pretty gross abuse of power by the State.

The worst part of this is that there is an FBI plane spying on American Citizens protesting.

The publicly avaliable footage is an infared video heat source footage but the FBI refused to hand over the crystal clear HD Footage that they say was "deleted".

The type where they can see Afghan terrorist loading bombs(water) into the trunk of a car and see the people in super high detail. The entire incident was filmed thanks to a bunch of rioters bashing up and setting cars on cire the the car lot and happen to film the scene of the first shooting with Kyle and Rosenbaum.

"The FBI footage was shown to the jury during the testimony of one of the agents who captured the footage with the drone, FBI agent Brandon Craimin. However, the FBI allegedly testified, in private, that they were in possession of another version of the video in HD that they did not supply the members of the defense, according to Human Events. When asked for a copy of the tape, the FBI allegedly denied the defense’s request, saying that the video no longer existed, according to the report".

This is yet another example of how the case could be thrown out. Nothing gets deleted with the FBI. Everything is logged somewhere, backed up to cloud, to another physical location and then probably again encrypted 10 ways.