Trials add to tensions as perceptions diverge and divide: The Note
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We now stand at a moment where what happens in two courtrooms will tell us something broader about the national mood.
The TAKE with Rick Klein
Trials are always first and foremost about the facts of an individual case and what goes on inside the courtroom itself.
But we now stand at a moment when what happens in two courtrooms will tell us something broader about the national mood and could impact the political landscape along the way.
It's also not just that both incidents that led to these trials drew national and international attention during an extended period of reckoning over racial justice. It's not just that the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is in battleground Wisconsin or that the trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery is taking place at the same time in Georgia.