redstate.com By Jeff Charles
The left is having an exceedingly hard time with the outcome of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. From the moment the “not guilty” verdict was handed down, they have been caterwauling about how this proves white supremacy dominates the entire country.
One of the questions that arose during the trial, thanks to CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, was related to how this situation would have played out if Kyle Rittenhouse was black. Of course, the insinuation is that he would have been treated much more harshly. Hard leftists on Twitter also made this claim, arguing that a black Rittenhouse would not have been acquitted.
But, is this true?
After people began making this argument, others pointed to the case of a black man named Andrew Coffee IV who was found not guilty of allegations of murder and first-degree attempted murder, after it was established that he fired his weapon at SWAT team members in self-defense. Given the fact that this verdict was given in a case involving a man shooting at police officers, one can see the significance of this particular outcome…
