Both the trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers have been viewed by many as representing much more than two individual cases, and are part of the US’s undeniable reckoning with white supremacy. Rittenhouse has walked free, following proceedings and a trial in which the presiding judge was accused of showing an obvious favourable bias towards Rittenhouse. Meanwhile, Ahmaud Arbery’s killers have been found guilty of murder, and await sentencing. Once again, both trials have kick-started intense conversations regarding racism, structural white supremacy and the criminal justice …

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