Fri Nov 19, 2021 – 2:57 pm ESTFri Nov 19, 2021 – 3:19 pm EST
KENOSHA, Wisconsin (LifeSiteNews) – Eighteen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday for a series of shootings in self-defense that happened last year during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, collapsed and cried heavily upon hearing the verdict that he was found innocent on all charges.
He was charged with reckless homicide, recklessly endangering safety with the use of a dangerous weapon, and intentional homicide after killing two men and wounding a third during a night of violent rioting and vandalism as part of the Black Lives Matter protests that took place all across the United States last summer.
After the shooting took place, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden labeled Rittenhouse a “white supremacist,” despite the fact that both men who were killed in the exchange were white, as is Rittenhouse.
He faced life in prison if found guilty on the charge of first-degree intentional homicide, which is called first-degree murder in other jurisdictions.
Fearing a violent reaction if the verdict was found unfavorable to progressives, Wisconsin Democrat Gov. Tony Evers asked people to remain
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