The trial this week of Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with homicide for the killing of two unarmed men during the unrest after police shot Jacob Blake in the back, is arguably one of the most polarizing the country has seen in recent times.
Many on the left see Rittenhouse as a killer, many on the right see him as a “patriot” who was engaged in self defense. Judge Bruce Schroeder will decide Rittenhouse’s fate – and if he’s a killer or a self-defending patriot.
Schroeder’s behavior has been the subject of a good deal of outrage as he – on live TV – repeatedly berated the prosecutor Wednesday. Some legal experts indicate his anger at the state’s attorney might be justified, but at the very least most seem to agree it should not have been done in public.
Wednesday afternoon many were stunned when Judge Schroeder’s phone went off in the middle of the trial.
Schroeder quickly grabbed it and angrily turned the ringer off, but as several noted, his ringtone is the same song Donald Trump used as his theme song at his MAGA rallies, known to some as “Proud to be an American,” officially “God Bless the U.S.A.”
There’s nothing wrong with the song itself, but given how Trump himself has repeatedly “endorsed” Rittenhouse, even traveling visiting Kenosha, the scene of the killings, some are expressing concern.
Civil rights attorney Timothy Welbeck, the Director of the Center for Anti-Racism Research, and an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Temple University, called it “outrageous.”
“This is outrageous,” he tweeted in response to a video of Judge Schroeder’s phone ringing. “Aside from the obnoxious disruption it causes (I’ve seen judges threaten defendants and witnesses with jail time when their cell phones rang during court proceedings), it further reveals Judge Schroeder’s potential for bias in this matter and related ones.”
Last summer at a White House press briefing Trump told reporters his thoughts about Rittenhouse: “You saw the same tape as I saw, and he was trying to get away from them.”
“I guess it looks like and he fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something we’re looking at right now and it’s under investigation,” Trump said, as CNBC reported August 31, 2020. “I guess he was in very big trouble. He probably would have been killed. But it’s under investigation.”
One day earlier The New York Times reported “the president even ‘liked’ a tweet that offered support for Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Trump supporter who has been charged with homicide after two demonstrators were shot to death in Kenosha, Wis. ‘Kyle Rittenhouse is a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump,’ the tweet said.”
Former Republican and former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski, now a Democrat, was among the first to identify the song:
Mediaite also reports the song is Lee Greenwood’s “G-d Bless the U.S.A.“
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Original Article: https://www.rawstory.com/rittenhouse-judge/
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You are absolutely despicable!!!!! I am absolutely disgusted with your bias and misinformation in this article. To try and tie this judge to someone you hate and call a Nazi is absolutely absurd and not journalism at all. It’s straight up propaganda in order to taint the judge. You don’t deserve to be allowed to spew this hate, bias, fiction. You are a garbage outlet. Shame on you!!!!!!
Yeah, I have had the same thinking about this site. I think it is a purposely put site from the Liberals so the site can give the Lib’s our information so they can come and arrest us or even kill us. I can’t prove it, but then, they can’t disprove it either. I have reported them to certain individuals so this site is now being evaluated and watched. Censorship can work both ways!
Seriously? This song has been popular for along time way before Trump, it means nothing! God whoever wrote this is pathetic to twist this into something it isn’t. Apparently they they just hate Trump and want to see this kid convicted even though he’s innocent. Typical of liberal media none of this would be a story if these loser protesters would have killed Rittenhouse!
Who gives two frogs what the judges ringtone is!!! For goodness sake listen to what is said and what the videos show. Why aren’t some of the people destroying buildings and business on trial???
Would you expect anything else but spewing hatred from a gutter trash liberal who hates Trump?
This song has been around long before Trump and anyone that is a good person, with values, integrity, character, and self respect INCLUDING the love of God wouldn’t have an issue. You can certainly see the hatred come out in this article but Satan is great at causing this type of hatred in people, especially the weak minded that can be lead down a distructive path. The left are pure evil, pathetic, disgusting, and mentally sick people that clearly need to be in a insane asylum, on meds, or need a good exorcist.
They clearly are out of their minds or under Satan’s control!
I like that song too, but I am not a Trump supporter at all. I am an independent and loath both party extremes! I watched some of the trial. The judge excoriated the prosecutor publicly because the prosecutor had already been privately warned by the judge regarding his line of questioning and the fragile psychological state of the 17 year old defendant, and warned not to use the mental health status of the defendant as a mean of going for the jugular. The prosecutor disregarded the warning multiple times so the judge finally had enough of it and told him about it in real time after the defendant broke down on the stand and started crying uncontrollably. I thought the judge was correct. I cringed at the way the prosecutor was trying to coerce the defendant to give answers that would admit guilt that was not established by evidence. Judges often admonish prosecutors and defense lawyers when either side steps out of line repeatedly. This defendant is a kid in a man’s body that was allowed to possess a weapon that his parents should never have allowed him to have and was in the middle of an emotionally charged situation which he could not properly mentally process. True, maybe he could have helped the people he shot by calling EMS but this kid was so damn scared and confused that he ran to the police to tell them what he had done before the mob could get to him. This article is very biased against the judge.