![]() ![]() The shootings occurred during protests after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, on August 23, 2020. ![]() Ultimately, the not-guilty verdict means simply that Rittenhouse’s self-defense argument was convincing to the jurors.įrom the start, the events that led to Rittenhouse fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz, are incomprehensible without considering the role of race in how things unfolded. The trial itself turned on narrow and prosaic questions: Beyond a reasonable doubt, did Rittenhouse commit homicide or reckless homicide and recklessly endanger people? During the trial, the judge also dismissed two misdemeanor charges, for breaking curfew and unlawfully possessing a dangerous weapon while younger than 18, citing errors by prosecutors. These are political matters, not judicial ones. Read: The Second Amendment’s second-class citizens The jury could never have rendered a yea-or-nay verdict on the saturation of guns in American society. It couldn’t say something about the state of race relations in America. It couldn’t produce a plain answer as to whether Rittenhouse was a hero or a villain. The predicament of the Rittenhouse trial was that it could never do what many Americans, especially on the left, wanted. Much of that attention offered little insight, and sidestepped the point. ![]() The trial was inevitably a media circus, spurring intense criticism of the judge and prosecutors from commentators across the political spectrum. Jurors deliberated for more than three days before delivering the verdict this afternoon, accepting his attorneys’ argument that Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense. ET on November 20, 2021.Ī jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot three men during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the summer of 2020, not guilty of the charges against him. ![]()
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