The Rittenhouse case underscores an extremely dangerous practice, which dates back to the Salem witch trials if not before, of putting people on trial to pander to lynch mobs or their equivalents.
Prosecutors, especially those with political ambitions, latch on to socially popular issues such as fear of witches in the seventeenth century or sex crimes and racially-charged controversies today.
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Oh yeah. They always try to portrait their poster boys as some under age victim, and the usage of Greta Thumberg to influence adults, as if children were beyond reproach as witnesses, is all that Salem was all about.
Also Salem was a case of a loser who envied successful neighbors.