Rittenhouse trial judge Bruce Schroeder's kids threatened with 'heinous homicide' in nasty emails
Judge Bruce Schroeder, the judge presiding over the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, has been receiving a torrent of abusive and menacing emails, letters, postcards, and faxes as he has been slammed as a racist.
The hundreds of offensive communications received by Kenosha County Courthouse have been reviewed by Daily Mail. According to the outlet, one email sent on Wednesday, November 10, read, "Wow way to name a white skinhead hot head to be a judge. No wonder they burn down your city." There were those who called for the 'racist' judge and the longest-serving in the county, to be dismissed and disbarred.
"Your Honor, I didn't know that under your black robes of justice you wear a white robe of the klan. There is no way a fair trial can be heard under your supervision. Better yet, resign," one of them read.
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The judge has been receiving backlash from his 'God Bless America' ringtone to his joke about his Chinese lunch getting delayed. "I hope the Asian food isn't coming … isn't on one of those boats from Long Beach Harbor," Schroeder said at the time.
As public opinion of the judge fell to an all-time low, one of the most disturbing messages that he received targeted his children. The sender promised that there would be "payback" through their lives and that Rittenhouse "won't live long" if acquitted. The email hoped that one day Judge Schroeder's "kids become victims to the most heinous homicide known to man so he feels the pain an [sic]we will call his kids not victims but b******s."
It seemed to allude to the judge's ruling last month that prosecutors could not refer to the men shot by Rittenhouse -- Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber and Gaige Grosskreutz -- as "victims."
In the same trial, the defense was permitted to use the terms such as "looters" and "rioters" while describing the events of the night of August 25, last year when Rittenhouse wreaked havoc during a night of peaceful BLM protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
'Rittenhouse is a murderous thug and trying to protect him says a LOT about this judge'
A number of people reacted to the judge's ruling which was deemed unfair. "This is outrageous…What fresh hell is this???? Rittenhouse is a murderous thug and trying to protect him says a LOT about this judge. We are watching," one of them read. "Enjoy your term, judge, it's going to be your LAST. If I ever meet you in person, I fully intend to spit directly into your face, regardless the cost. You're disgusting."
Although many of the senders of the vile string of mails have used their full names, others have sent them anonymously or using pseudonyms. For example, one of them claimed to be from Jesus Christ and was signed with the initials JC It read: "Make sure and tell Schroeder what a worthless piece of s*** he is. He'll find out officially when his heart seizes up I a few years and he has to stand before a real judge."
Judge Schroeder referenced the "thousands of communications," received by him and his staff earlier this week as the trial of Rittenhouse was broadcast live. The judge added, "I wouldn't want to be those people" and that he would "deal with" the senders as and when the time comes.