Protests against racism and police brutality turned violent in many US cities after the police killing George Floyd in Minneapolis three months before the Kenosha shootings. The prosecution portrayed Mr Rittenhouse as a reckless vigilante who provoked the violent encounters and showed no remorse for the men he shot with his AR-15-style rifle. The unrest followed the police shooting of a Black man named Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed from the waist down. They said he was a civic-minded teenager who had been in Kenosha to protect private property after several nights of unrest in the city south of Milwaukee. The defence argued that Mr Rittenhouse had been repeatedly attacked and had shot the men in fear for his life. Mr Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and fired a bullet that injured Gaige Grosskreutz, 28.
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His trial polarised the US, highlighting gaping divisions in US society around contentious issues like gun rights. A jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on charges that he murdered two men and attempted to kill a third with his semi-automatic rifle during protests in Wisconsin in 2020, determining that the teenager acted in self-defence.Ī 12-member jury found Mr Rittenhouse, 18, not guilty on two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide and two counts of recklessly endangering safety during street protests marred by arson, rioting and looting on 25 August, 2020 in the city of Kenosha.
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