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Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery: a tale of two trials

11 November 2021

4:48 PM

11 November 2021

4:48 PM

Two consequential trials are currently underway in America. Both in some way relate to the events of last year surrounding police and their purportedly racist motives. One is driving most of the media coverage online and one has been all but ignored.

So why is the national media almost singularly focused on fabricating racial components in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, and not at all in the trial of Gregory McMichael and his two accomplices, who stand accused of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was gunned down while jogging last February?

We are being fed the fantasy that Rittenhouse...

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