Kyle Rittenhouse

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• SOURCE: Salon
  11/23/2021
  

  Does Rittenhouse Show America's Crossed a Rubicon?

  by Jim Sleeper

  Do those applauding Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal understand the chaos that could be unleashed when (not if) armed vigilante squads feel invited to show up not just at protests but at polling places? 

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• SOURCE: Editorial Board
  11/15/2021
  

  Rittenhouse's Defense is Trying to Connect to a Long History of State Support for White Vigilantism

  by Mia Brett

  Police tolerance and even encouragement of the presence of Kyle Rittenhouse and other vigilantes on the streets of Kenosha in August 2020 was no anomaly. 

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• 11/15/2021
  

  Historians on the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

  As Kyle Rittenhouse's trial advances to jury deliberation, historians weigh in. 

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• 11/11/2021
  

  Kyle's Tears

  by Joe Lowndes

  Kyle Rittenhouse's demeanor at trial shows the difficulty of his case; he presents a figure that normalizes and sanitizes the violent core of the vigilante movement he represents.

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• SOURCE: Gawker
  11/16/2021
  

  Kyle Rittenhouse is an American

  by Patrick Blanchfield

  "The impulse to reconstruct that night’s chaos as though watching a 21st century Rashomon, is a trap."

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• 11/14/2021
  

  Kyle Rittenhouse's Trial Will End in a Verdict. The Nation's Trial By Ordeal Won't

  by Thomas Lecaque

  "A trial by ordeal was not about miracles or superstition. It was, in effect, about the community making a decision on the innocence or guilt of the party, and then bringing it about." Kyle Rittenhouse's trial prompts an uncomfortable reckoning with the continuity of some medieval practices of justice.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/4/2021
  

  In Rittenhouse Trial, Language Matters

  by Felicia Angeja Viator

  Kyle Rittenhouse's trial evokes the 1943 "Zoot Suit Riots," when white vigilantes, including uniformed servicemen, beat Mexican American youth in Los Angeles and other cities. The courts contributed to exonerating the vigilantes by repeating the language of a moral panic that characterized the victims as "gangsters" and hoodlums.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/5/2021
  

  What Kyle Rittenhouse's Fate Reveals about Law and Order

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Historically, white vigilantism, especially against the demands of minorities for civil and economic equality, has been a key component of the politics of "law and order."