Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in the shooting deaths of two protestors and the injury of another in last year’s deadly Kenosha protests Friday.
The 18-year-old began to cry out loud in what looked like a staged performance to me, as the jury read the verdict.
Rittenhouse had been charged with homicide, attempted homicide, and reckless endangerment in the deaths of Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and in the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, on Aug. 25, 2020.
Rittenhouse was 17 when he brought a semi-automatic rifle in an effort to police protestors and protect businesses after riots began over the death of Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man who was paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot 7 times by a Kenosha police officer in Aug. of 2020.
The teen told a court he shot and killed the two victims in self-defense.
He was facing life in prison if found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in Huber’s death.
Protests have began to take place in different cities after the jury’s decision to acquit Rittenhouse.
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