Rittenhouse - a former police cadet and a Trump supporter with a strong “Blues Lives Matter” social-media presence - told a right-wing media outlet that he was there doing his “job,” though he had taken it upon himself to help guard the car dealership. That week, Kenosha saw sustained protests after local police shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back with his children watching. Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, lived in Antioch, Illinois he crossed state lines, picked up an illegally obtained AR15 rifle from a friend’s stepfather, and embedded with a self-described militia purportedly protecting a local business from demonstrators out after curfew. After three and a half days of deliberation, a jury acquitted Rittenhouse of all felony counts, including first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. ET: This story has been updated with more background information.On Friday, a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of charges he faced for killing two people and shooting another with an AR15 rifle at Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, 2020. Richards said Rittenhouse is eager to "get on with his life" and will likely be moving out of the Kenosha area over safety concerns. "In Wisconsin, if you don't put a client on the stand, you're going to lose, period." "We had a mock jury, and we did two different juries, one with him testifying and one without him testifying, and it was substantially better when he testified," Richards told reporters outside of the Kenosha courthouse. The teen was notably overcome with emotion during his testimony, forcing the courtroom to break for a brief recess after he began hyperventilating on the stand.įollowing the verdict, Mark Richards, one of Rittenhouse's attorneys, said there was no question about whether the teen would testify. Rittenhouse, who took the stand on Wednesday, told the jury, "I didn't do anything wrong. He said he had traveled to Kenosha from his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, to help protect local businesses that had been destroyed or looted amid the social unrest that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Prosecutor Questions Kyle Rittenhouse's Claims He Was in Kenosha To Help.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Forced to Recess After He Breaks Down on the Stand.Roommate of Survivor in Rittenhouse Shooting Gives Unexpected Testimony.Rittenhouse Trial Heats Up as Judge Screams at Prosecution.His mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, was observed crying behind him in the gallery and hugging others around her after the verdict. His attorneys were seen reminding him to breathe. Rittenhouse, 18, collapsed in the courtroom as the court clerk read out the final verdict. He had also faced a misdemeanor charge of possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor, which the judge dismissed on Monday. Rittenhouse had been charged with five first-degree felony counts: intentional and reckless homicide, attempted intentional homicide and two counts of recklessly endangering safety. The verdict was delivered on the fourth day of jury deliberations. The jury also decided Rittenhouse, now 18, was not guilty of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz, who was struck in a bicep and wounded. A jury in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and other charges Friday in the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, whom the 17-year-old shot on August 25, 2020.
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