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Absolutely a part of this even though the race of everyone involved in the case is white. there is a question about the second amendment. who's allowed to stand their ground? even you have to think about the climate in which the shootings happened in kenosha with kyle rittenhouse opening fire at this protest. these were people gathering to protest police treatment of communities of color by police. right? these protests part of happening in cities i cross the country last summer. the overwhelming majority, a harvard study found they're peaceful and the narrative in conservative media is that t...

I have written what i think is the set of justifications and i think in the ahmaud arbery case the facts of the matter are just so blatant that for the defense to emerge victorious requires much more of intellectual gymnastics than it required the jury in the rittenhouse case. >> i got to say there's something chilling that sticks with me thinking back to january 6 and it was a member of the militia speaking to me saying to me if they come for our guns it's over. and you look at what happened with kyle rittenhouse and you think, what's coming? what's down the road for us? thank you. thank you....

I think that to the extent our experiences are reflected in the race of our jurors, that can come into play in terms of the way we just perceive and experience the world situation. so i do think that race is an unspoken but powerful variable that exists in this case. >> also the citizens arrest situation, that has now been repealed, correct, in the state of georgia? wasn't it a civil war era law? >> absolutely. it has been repealed as a result of this case, which i think is a good move. that doesn't benefit the prosecution in this case, because the defendants are entitled to the law that was o...

>> and one of the things i often like to remind folks is in 2018, so many people came out and voted and we saw change and got stuck because you had a certain party, the republican party, that did not want to hear a lot of legislation, including the george floyd police reform act. when you hear cynthia say we have to go out, we have to participate, vote. he's been on the bunch for quite a while. to you think someone will now basically try to run against him, based on his verdict and the way he was conducting himself in the court room? >> i certainly think cynthia's absolute lee right and i don'...

Judge jeanine: remember last september when biden knowing none of the facts of the case suggested rittenhouse was a white supremacist. senator tom cotton and others demanded he offer a public apology for his rush to judgment. >> stand by your past comments relating to white supremacy? >> i stand by what the jury concluded. the jury system works and we have to abide by it. judge jeanine: later in the day he issued this statement adding the jury's findings left him feeling angry and concerned.