I had the misfortune to overhear Wolf Blitzer while making a late supper a few minutes ago. Apparently Rittenhouse went there to cause violence, shot at medics with their hands up, the peaceful protestors are heroes and martyrs, and crossed state lines with his AR-15. And that we were afraid of people just rampaging around with guns for so long and it finally happened, the right-wing hate mob killed innocents.
The degree to Blitzer's guest shill played up that angle alongside the Blake shooting, pushing the usual "racist white cops killed an innocent black man, even if he may have had a knife, in front of his children" crap, makes me ill. The fact that Blitzer and Cooper just sit there and let these people go on their little tirades about how evil white cops are, how black people are constantly oppressed, how self defense is inappropriate... that makes me want to slug their smug faces with a chain-mail glove on. They don't even try to act impartial on it. They make zero effort to say "However, other sources say such-and-such happened. Whether or not this is the case is yet to be determined", or counter the emotions with the facts, or just not sit there like bumps on a log.
Remember this because all of this character assassination and attempts to sway a trial are going to bite them in the ass again when Wood representing Kyle R. sue them for hundreds of millions and win just like Sandmann. So remember what you are seeing, it's going to pay off big time a bit later down the road.