![]() Prosecutors portrayed Rittenhouse as a “wannabe soldier” who had gone looking for trouble that night and was responsible for creating a dangerous situation in the first place by pointing his rifle at demonstrators.īut Rittenhouse testified: “I didn’t do anything wrong. He joined other armed civilians on the streets, carrying a weapon authorities said was illegally purchased for him because he was underage.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. Rittenhouse went to Kenosha from his home in nearby Antioch, Illinois, after businesses were ransacked and burned in the nights that followed Blake’s shooting. “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. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at more stories like this, check our news page.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. The deliberating panel includes seven women and five men, who have not been identified by race but appear to be predominantly white. Thursday’s court session was notable largely for Judge Bruce Schroeder banning MSNBC from the courthouse after a freelancer was accused of following the jurors in their bus. It shows the second incident involving the fatal shooting of Anthony Huber, shooting of Grosskreutz and alleged reckless endangerment of an unknown male. Jurors also requested to view the ‘BG on The Scene’ video. In the video, Grosskreutz jobs next to Rittenhouse and asks if he just shot someone. The jury sat alone in the court room for 45 minutes Wednesday, where they viewed a livestream video taken by Gaige Grosskreutz moments after Rittenhoues shot Jacob Rosenbaum. Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha on August 25, 2020, with his loaded rifle in hand (Picture: Getty Images)īoth sides agreed to load the videos that jurors wanted to see onto a computer for them to view in the jury room.
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