Judge Bruce E. Schroeder is the Kenosha County (Wisconsin) Judge presiding over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who at 17 shot and killed two unarmed men during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wis. around the time of the George Floyd protests.
The judge this week ruled the prosecution cannot call the two men shot by Rittenhouse “victims” but the defense attorney can call them rioters.
I called his chambers tonight and left a message on his clerk’s voice mail suggesting that any such description of them is weighted and imbalanced in light of his denial of use of the term victim.
My suggestion was that he change his instructions to the attorneys to tell them the only description they could use to desribe the two dead men would be, should be, “The two men allegedly shot and killed by Mr. Rittenhouse” because that after all is a fact, that it is alleged he did (though we all know he did and the judge knows he did).
I said that struck me as judicial rather than, like his instruction, political and wighted and freighted.
If you agree and want to suggest that same language to the judge, well, just call his chambers: 262-653-2579.
Peeling the Onion 