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The white gunman and the ‘rioters, anarchists, arsonists and flag-burners’ On 25 August 2020, seventeen-year-old (white) Kyle Rittenhouse shot three antiracist protesters in the US state of Wisconsin, killing two and seriously injuring the third. Equally shocking was the impunity with which ...

Intervention question. that its a try to get the judge to help break things up. sometimes you will see a question like you know, if we find x, should we do y? and it sometimes reflects just an impasse in the jury. or, they can actually send out and this could happen tomorrow, a notice that they are dead locked. they can say we reached agreements on three counts but not the others. every judge that i know will send them back to deliberate. >> tucker: right. >> they never accept that first deadloc...

The cosby trial went five days and then it had a hung jury. phil specter in his first triall went 12 days and ended up hung jury. menendez brothers, three days and hung jury. conversely, paul manafort was convicted after four days. so its hard to say that the length of time is really that telling. a lot of things can be happening. one thing that has not clearly happened is that the defense did a good job is showing how these counts have a cascading failure. once you decide he acted in self-defen...

Creating the problems in north africa. >> i think people may not know this. up until 2007 there was no distinct central africa command in terms of the way the pentagon cleaved the world. in 2007 there was africa command and it currently is stationed in europe, not actually in africa. there have been a variety of initiatives to train the soldiers of different african regimes, counterterrorism training, other kinds of training and in fact the soldiers of mali. mali was one of the star pupils in th...