- Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges related to the fatal shooting of two men.
- Rittenhouse fired a semi-automatic rifle during the 2020 racial justice protests, killing two people and injuring one third.
- A jury of 12 members found him not guilty.
The jury declared on Friday that Kyle Rittenhouse was not guilty of all charges of shooting two men and wounding a third person with a semi-automatic rifle in the chaotic 2020 racial justice protests in Wisconsin, and found the teenager It is out of self-defense.
A 12-member jury ruled that the 18-year-old Rittenhouse was charged with two murders and one attempted murder during street protests in a working-class city on August 25, 2020 when he was arson, rioted, and robbed. Kenosha was not guilty of crimes and two counts of reckless endangering security.
After the verdict, Rittenhouse suddenly sobbed, which happened shortly after the judge warned the court to remain silent or was dismissed.
The juvenile’s trial polarized the United States and highlighted the huge differences in American society over controversial issues such as gun rights.
Rittenhouse shot and killed 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum and 26-year-old Anthony Huber, and fired a bullet that was torn from the arm of 28-year-old Gage Grosskruts A big piece was dropped.
After more than three days of deliberation, the jury reached a verdict. The duel narrative between the defense and the prosecution gave a completely different description of the boy’s behavior on the night of the shooting.
The defense argued that Rittenhouse had been attacked many times and shot at these people for fear of life threatening. They said he was a civic-conscious teenager, and after several nights of riots in the southern city of Milwaukee, he had been protecting private property in Kenosha.
The riots occurred after a black man named Jacob Black was shot and killed by the police and he was paralyzed from the waist down.
The prosecutor portrayed Rittenhouse as a reckless voluntary police officer who provoked a violent conflict and had no regrets for the people he killed with an AR-15 rifle.
The trial was conducted during a period of social and political polarization in the United States, and was broadcast live and analyzed by cable experts every day. Gun rights are cherished by many Americans and are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Even though the country has a high incidence of gun violence, guns are easily available.
Rittenhouse testified that he had no choice but to shoot to protect himself. He was considered brave by conservatives who supported the expansion of gun rights and believed that the shooting was reasonable. Many on the left believe that Rittenhouse is a voluntary police officer, a manifestation of the out-of-control American gun culture.
Three months before the Kenosha shooting, after the black man George Floyd in Minneapolis was killed by the police, protests against racism and police brutality in many cities in the United States turned into violence.
Since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2013, a man named George Zimmerman was acquitted, and Rittenhouse’s The verdict ended the high-profile American civilian self-defense case.
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Kenosha was captured by mobile phones and surveillance video for most of that night, and there are few basic facts that are controversial. Rather, the focus of the trial was whether Rittenhouse took reasonable action to prevent “imminent death or major bodily injury”, which is a requirement for the use of lethal force under Wisconsin law.
The prosecutor, led by Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, tried to portray Rittenhouse as an aggressor and pointed out that he was the only person to kill that night.
Full metal housing
Rittenhouse’s gun contains 30 rounds of all-metal shell bullets designed to penetrate the target. The jury saw a series of images and videos, including the moment after Rittenhouse fired four bullets at Rosenbaum, Rosenbaum was motionless, bleeding, and groaning. Other videos showed Gross Kruitz screaming, blood pouring from his arms.
Rittenhouse testified for his defense at the most dramatic moment of the trial last Wednesday-considering his youth and the prospect of facing severe prosecution and cross-examination, his lawyer made a risky decision. Rittenhouse broke down and sobbed, but emphasized that he only shot at these people after being attacked.
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“I did what I had to do to stop those who attacked me,” he said.
Rittenhouse testified that he shot Huber after hitting Huber with a skateboard and drew his weapon. He said that after the man pointed the pistol he was carrying at the teenager, he fired at Groskruts-Groskruts admitted to this statement when questioned by the defense. Rittenhouse testified that after Rosenbaum chased him and grabbed his gun, he shot and killed Rosenbaum.
