![]() “That a teenager could travel across state lines to a protest he had nothing to do with shoot three people, killing two and face no criminal consequences is a miscarriage of justice and an indictment of our criminal justice system,” Watts said. Shannon Watts, founder of gun control group Moms Demand Action, was among those denouncing the not guilty finding. “Nobody deputized him,” prosecutor Thomas Binger said. Prosecutors said Rittenhouse - who lived in the neighboring state of Illinois - had come to Kenosha as a self-appointed “junior policeman” and “made a series of reckless decisions.” In right-wing and pro-gun circles, Rittenhouse, who claimed he went to Kenosha to protect businesses from looters and act as a medic, was hailed as a heroic figure. Aftab Alam آفتاب عالم आफ़ताब आलम November 20, 2021Ĭivil unrest erupted in Kenosha, a city of 100,000 on the shores of Lake Michigan, in August 2020 after a white policeman shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, in the back several times during an arrest, leaving him paralyzed. Video footage shows him shooting the shooters. He was 17 at the time of the shootings & said that he was acting in self-defence. Kyle Rittenhouse,who killed two during Black Lives Matter protests in Wisconsin, was found not guilty. ![]() ![]() The case drew national attention because it arose from the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that swept the country last year and featured a controversial mix of guns, racial tensions and vigilantism. The jury deliberated for a total of 26 hours over four days before delivering a unanimous verdict of not guilty on all counts. The most serious charge - intentional homicide - carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Rittenhouse faced five charges - one count of intentional homicide, one count of reckless homicide, one count of attempted intentional homicide and two counts of recklessly endangering safety. Prosecutors dismissed the self-defense claim, saying it was the then 17-year-old Rittenhouse who “provoked” the events during a night of unrest in Kenosha. Rittenhouse testified during the two-week trial that he shot dead two men and wounded another with his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle after being attacked.
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