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Whoopi Goldberg commented on the trial of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse during a broadcast of ABC’s “The View.”
“So the jury is deliberating as we speak,” Goldberg said.
“How do you see this ending?” she asked rhetorically. “I think it’s really a red light for white folks coming to help at social justice protests.”
“Because basically what they’re saying is ‘Oh, it’s OK to shoot white people too,’” Goldberg claims.
Rittenhouse currently stands trial for the murder of two people during last year’s “Black Lives Matter” riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Left-wing celebrities have been outspoken in their support of “Black Lives Matter” protesters and the violent rioters who rocked Kenosha, Wisconsin for three nights in August 2020.
Businesses were destroyed by career criminals as law enforcement is accused of failing to protect people’s property. 17-year-old Rittenhouse arrived to assist a local business owner in defending his car dealership that suffered $1.5 million in damages.
Rittenhouse, who says he was defending himself from violent protesters, has been charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide as well as other charges in the aftermath of the riots.
Goldberg said, “All eyes are on Wisconsin after lawyers made closing arguments on whether 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse traveling across state lines to take up arms before killing two men and wounding a third during a night of social justice protests and unrest were acts of self-defense or was it vigilante murder?”
Prosecutor Thomas Binger said during closing arguments, “One of the things to keep in mind is that when the defendant provokes the incident, he loses the right to self-defense.”
‘You cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create … What you don’t do is you don’t bring a gun to a fistfight … What the defendant wants you to believe is, because he’s the one who brought the gun, he gets to kill.”
Defense attorney Mark Richards added, “Kyle shot Joseph Rosenbaum to stop the threat to his person, and I’m glad he shot him because if Joseph Rosenbaum had got that gun, I don’t for a minute believe he wouldn’t have used it against somebody else.”
