The 18-year-old man, who incurred life imprisonment, pleaded self-defense in this revealing record of America’s fractures on firearms, self-defense and antiracist movement Black Lives Matter.
Le Monde with AFP
After twenty-six hours of deliberation spread over four days, the jury who had retired on Tuesday to discuss the fate of Kyle Rittenhouse, accused of the murder of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and for injury a third man, Gaige Grosskreutz, on the sidelines of anti-racist events in 2020, was acquitted on Friday, November 19th. The twelve jurors declared it “not guilty” of the five counts that weighed on him, including murders.
The 18-year-old man, who incurred life imprisonment, pleaded self-defense in this revealing record of America’s fractures on firearms, self-defense and antiracist movement Black Lives Matter (” Black lives count “).
“When you decide the verdict, keep in mind that the accused caused the incident, because, according to the law in the State of Wisconsin, you can not invoke self-defense against a danger Whether you create, “said Prosecutor Thomas Binger, who was not heard by the jury.
The trial has been widely broadcast in the country, which awaited with some apprehension the verdict. As a precaution, the Governor of Wisconsin asked five hundred National Guard soldiers to keep ready to intervene in Kenosha.
On August 23, 2020, this city in the Great Lakes region had inflamed after a police burr against an African American. The 17 year old, Kyle Rittenhouse had equipped with a semi-automatic rifle and had joined armed groups who came to “protect” businesses. In confused circumstances, he had opened fire, killing two men and hurting a third. All his victims are white.
Kyle Rittenhouse has become a muse in some right settings for whom the great mobilization against the police violence of the summer 2020 was the work of “antifas” or “anarchists”. Conversely, on the left, he embodies the excesses of the culture of arms and the right to self-defense.