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“It seems to me that it’s open season on human rights demonstrators,” he said. Jesse Jackson, the longtime civil rights leader, said the verdict throws into doubt the safety of people who protest in support of Black Americans. Supporters donated more than $2 million toward his legal defense. The verdict in the politically combustible case was met with anger and disappointment from those who saw Rittenhouse as a vigilante and a wannabe cop, and relief and a sense of vindication from those who regarded him as a patriot who took a stand against lawlessness and exercised his Second Amendment right to carry a gun and to defend himself. But as he said when he testified, he did not start this.” “He has a huge sense of relief for what the jury did to him today.

“He wants to get on with his life,” defense attorney Mark Richards said. A sheriff’s deputy whisked him out a back door. Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up, fell forward toward the defense table and then hugged one of his attorneys as he heard a court clerk recite “not guilty” five times. Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after testifying he acted in self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

Please contact us for subscription options.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Prosecutors said Rittenhouse was, in fact, the aggressor, and that he was part of a vigilante mob determined to intimidate Black Lives Matter demonstrators.Īnadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. The prosecution maintained Rittenhouse had no business being there, 20 miles from his hometown in neighboring Antioch, Illinois. Supporters of him from around the country raised around $2 million dollars for his bail money. He says he shot the three men in self-defense after all three came towards him. Rittenhouse claims he was invited to the streets of Kenosha by property owners last August, to help with protection, after a night of looting and fires. He had been accused of illegally possessing an AR-15 assault rifle when he shot two men dead, and wounded a third, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Kenosha last summer.ĭemonstrations, sometimes violent, had broken out after a Kenosha police officer shot an unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, in August. Judge Bruce Schroeder last week dismissed a charge of illegal gun possession against Rittenhouse. He had faced the possibility of life in prison after being charged with five counts, including first-degree intentional homicide. Rittenhouse, now 18, broke down in tears as the verdict was read aloud in the Kenosha courtroom, hugging one of his attorneys in apparent relief.

#KYLE RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY TRIAL#

A jury in the US state of Wisconsin acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all counts in a closely watched trial following the fatal shootings of two protesters and the wounding of a third.