WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A jury acquitted teenager Kyle Rittenhouse of murder in the fatal shooting of two men in a trial that highlighted divisions over gun rights
of two men during racial justice protests in a decision that ignited fierce debate about gun rights and the boundaries of self defense in the United States.
Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and fired a bullet that tore a chunk off the arm of Gaige Grosskreutz, 28. Rittenhouse claimed self defense. The thorny issue of race also hung over the case, although Rittenhouse and the men he shot were all white. Some Black activists said on Friday the U.S. police and courts would have treated the teenager more harshly if he had been Black.
The violence followed the police shooting of a Black man named Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed from the waist down.Kyle Rittenhouse reacts to the verdict during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., November 19, 2021. Sean Krajacic/Pool via REUTERSThe prosecution portrayed 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.
Protests against racism and police brutality turned violent in many U.S. cities after the police killing of Black man George Floyd in Minneapolis three months before the Kenosha shootings.
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