The part I disagree with you about is, well, I don’t. The whole thing was horrid, and you could have gone on for a couple more pages and still be right. There were so many disturbing details, and the verdict most disturbing of all. But the key point is that the trial was over before it started. The charges were first degree attempted murder. Not anything else like the 8 or charges in the Ahmed Aubrey case. Not second-degree unintentional homicide or whatever. Then they gutted out the pre-meditated part, basically ensuring that he would walk on self-defense as “the beyond a reasonable doubt standard” could be shaken. Leaving the jurors with little choice. They eliminated the prosecutor from arguing that the shooting was premeditated by not allowing the preparation to be discussed, the planning. Kyle armed himself before hand, arranged a ride with his mother to transport weapons across state lines, which is illegal, and possess a gun while underage, again illegal. These critical illegalities show the planning of his intent. Without that, he looked like he was roaming the streets by accident, wandering off from his parking lot of burnt-out cars he was protecting. With those illegal charges being allowed and the time span expanded to discuss the preparation, the prosecutors could have made him look like he was on a hunting expedition—a human one. Which he was, as you and I know. To me it looked intentional, like an agreement with the judge and prosecutors before the trial started to hamstring the prosecutors and let Kyle off by constraining the preparation part, or premeditation that revealed his intent to go human hunting. The only thing that prevented mass riots after the trial was the fact he didn’t shoot three black men instead of three white men who were siding with the blacks. We are asked now by white political leaders to accept the verdict. I ask that you don’t. Look closer at the set-up, the pretrial collaboration. They rigged it before it started.