Rittenhouse’s Acquittal Is the “Justice” System Working as Intended

In the summer of 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people in Kenosha, Wisc., killing two of them.

Canton Winer
Counter Arts
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3 min readNov 19, 2021

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Today, he was acquitted on all charges.

It is tempting to call moments like this a “miscarriage of our justice system.” But we shouldn’t.

Rittenhouse’s acquittal is a miscarriage of justice, but it is not a miscarriage of our “justice” system.

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Canton Winer
Counter Arts

Freelance Writer | UC Irvine sociology PhD student | Formerly of Florida, NYC, and Shanghai