AOC Attacks Double Standard After Accused Kenosha Shooter Rittenhouse’s Release: ‘Law and Disorder’ – By Natalie Colarossi (Newsweek) / Nov 21 2020
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized a double standard within the criminal justice system after accused Rittenhouse was released from jail on Friday.
Rittenhouse, a white 17-year-old from Illinois, was released from jail after being charged with killing two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin this summer during a Black Lives Matter demonstration protesting the police murder of Jacob Blake.
“Does anyone believe Rittenhouse would be released if he were Muslim & did the same thing in a diff context? For people who say ‘systemic racism doesn’t exist,’ this is what it looks like: protection of white supremacy baked deep into our carceral systems,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Saturday.
“Law and disorder,” she added.
