Gun laws helped to enhance the design to allow this verdict to happen today. This country was built on the idea of white men had a particular kind of freedom and a particular kind of citizenship that only they have.
Joy Reid discusses the systemic issues in the criminal justice system that contributed to the verdict in the Rittenhouse case.
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