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By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—One of Donald Trump’s “very fine people,” Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old who news reports said “admires the police,” was arrested August 26 for gunning down three peaceful protesters against racial repression and police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
One of his victims is in the hospital. The other two—one shot point-blank in the head, video shows—are in the morgue.
And while the manhunt arrested Rittenhouse, what his murders highlight is the green light the current GOP Oval Office occupant, Donald Trump, gave to such extremists with his praise of neo-Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville, Va., three years ago.
One of those neo-Nazis in Charlottesville committed murder, too, running down peaceful counter-protester Heather Heyer, 32, with his car. And the neo-Nazis injured up to 39 others....
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