Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty in Kenosha
shooting – live
Rittenhouse killed two people and injured a third
at protests last year –
… to further coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse
trial – and its aftermath. The jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in one of the most
closely watched US trials this year, has delivered its verdict: not guilty on
all counts.
Rittenhouse was 17 when he travelled from
Illinois to Wisconsin on the night of 25 August 2020. In a summer marked by
protests against racial injustice across the US and beyond, Kenosha was host to
demonstrations, which sometimes turned violent, particularly after the shooting
of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer.
Rittenhouse was armed with a military-style
assault rifle. He killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and
wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, after curfew had been declared.
Rittenhouse is white, as were the men he shot.
But his case focused attention on questions of racial justice, unequal
policing, and firearms rights which lie at the heart of America’s increasingly
bitter partisan divide.
Claiming self-defence, Rittenhouse pleaded not
guilty to two counts of homicide, one of attempted homicide and two of
recklessly endangering safety, for firing his weapon near others. He was also
charged with the illegal possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor, but the
judge dropped it.
The judge, Bruce Schroeder, became the focus of
intense attention himself, with a series of seemingly idiosyncratic outbursts
and procedural rulings. Many analysts thought witnesses for the prosecution
bolstered the case for the defence. The defence requested a mistrial, over access to evidence.
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