Re: Judge declares zoom of iPhone image unacceptable in court

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Akira Urushibata wrote:
> A ruling relevant to free software was recently made by a judge
> presiding over the highly publicized trial of Kyle Rittenhouse
> in Kenosha, Wisconsin, US.
>
> On the night of August 25 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men with
> a rifle in Kenosha, Wisconsin during heated protests following a police
> shooting of a black man.  Rittenhouse, a resident of Antioch, Illinois
> was 17 at the time and by law, prohibited from owning a gun or porting
> one across state borders.  Nobody had invited him to Kenosha.
> He claims innocent on the charges brought to him.  The fatal shootings,
> according to his lawyers, was an act of self-defense.
>
> For further information on the incident and the trial, please read
> this Wikipedia article:
>
>   Kenosha unrest shooting - Wikipedia
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rittenhouse
>   

Wikipedia is not a reliable source.  Even less so when the media they 
follow are outright lying.  I have seen a video mashup featuring Gaige 
Grosskreutz's actual testimony on the stand, where he admitted that Kyle 
Rittenhouse did not shoot him until he pointed his gun at Kyle, followed 
by MSNBC anchors reporting that Grosskreutz had testified that Kyle shot 
him while he had his hands up.  MSNBC was outright directly lying here:  
an earlier question asked exactly if Kyle had shot Grosskreutz while he 
had his hands up, and Grosskreutz admitted that he had not.  Wikipedia 
then follows "trusted" media sources and repeats the lies...


-- Jacob