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Wajahat Ali
Wajahat Ali

Nov 19, 2021

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It’s Good to Be a White Murderer in America

The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict re-establishes a dangerous precedent—and sends a terrifying warning to the rest of us

Photo: Sean Krajacic-Pool/Getty Images

It must be nice to know that you can carry an AR-15, shoot three people, claim self-defense, and then be acquitted by a nearly all-White jury of your peers that also features “a Black, the Black, the…

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Wajahat Ali

Wajahat Ali

First book out Jan 25th; The Daily Beast Columnist; Senior Fellow Western States Center; The Lavin Agency Speaker; wajahatmali@protonmail.com

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