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Of all cases to lament the lack of evidence for, why this one? We have video from multiple angles covering the entire event, dozens of witnesses, forensic evidence. Lack of evidence isn't the reason this case is polarizing.

I’m talking about when the story first broke out, not now.

We had all these videos when it first broke.

Pretty much the week of we had 3 different angles of every altercation.

Also, Rittenhouse's lawyer released a breakdown of the different angles more than a year ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4dhPM99i4I

All of this was suppressed until now for emotional outrage.

People pretty reasonably have strong feelings about the situation, and those feelings continue to be reasonable regardless of legal consequences. Legality, as always, does not imply morality - that's a critical concept that's frequently ignored in favor of scoring political points. For an example from another context: The fact that it is legal for private companies to censor users arbitrarily does not excuse them from criticism.

The Covington Catholic incident is calling....