Rittenhouse was 17 when he went from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha after businesses in the city were ransacked and burned over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer.Ĭarrying a weapon that authorities said was illegally purchased for the underage Rittenhouse, he joined other armed citizens in what he said was an effort to protect property and provide medical aid.īystander and drone video captured most of the frenzied chain of events that followed: Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, then shot to death protester Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded demonstrator Gaige Grosskreutz, now 28. Tony Evers pleaded for calm and said 500 National Guard members would be ready for duty in Kenosha if needed. “Thankfully, the jury thought the same.”Īs the outcome drew near, Gov. “All of us who knew what actually happened in Kenosha last year assumed this would be the verdict,” tweeted Republican former Wisconsin Gov. Political figures on the right, meanwhile, welcomed the verdict and condemned the case brought against Rittenhouse.
#Not guilty rittenhouse trial
We have seen so many black and brown youth killed, only to be put on trial posthumously, while the innocence of Kyle Rittenhouse was virtually demanded by the judge.” “The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is what we should expect from our judicial system, but that standard is not always applied equally. “Over the last few weeks, many dreaded the outcome we just witnessed,” Barnes said. Mandela Barnes, who is Black and a Democratic candidate for U.S. Rittenhouse’s mother, sitting several feet away from him on a courtroom bench, gasped in delight and began crying as the clerk read out the string of five not-guilty verdicts. In reaction to the verdict, prosecutor Thomas Binger said the jury had spoken.
As he dismissed the jurors who sat in judgment in the politically combustible case, Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder assured them the court would take “every measure” to keep them safe.Ī sheriff’s deputy immediately whisked Rittenhouse out a back door through the judge’s chambers.
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