Donald Trump has congratulated Kyle Rittenhouse for his homicide acquittal for shooting and killing two protesters and wounding another at a demonstration against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August last year.
Rittenhouse
fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz
during often violent protests in the summer of 2020 following the police
shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Mr.
Rittenhouse, 18, shot the men with an AR-15-style assault rifle on the streets
of Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 25 August 2020, but claimed it was in self-defence. Rittenhouse, 17 at the time, faced charges
ranging from intentional homicide to reckless and attempted homicide.
The jury
who acquitted the teen was made up of seven women and five men. They
deliberated from Tuesday morning and heard from more than 30 witnesses during
two weeks of testimony.
The case
focused on whether Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense when he shot and
killed two men and wounded a third during a night of protests and civil unrest
last year.
Rittenhouse had faced five charges, including first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a sentence of life in prison, before he was found him not guilty of all charges.
“Congratulations
to Kyle Rittenhouse for being found INNOCENT of all charges. It’s called being
found NOT GUILTY—And by the way, if that’s not self defense, nothing is!” said
the former president in a statement posted on Twitter by his spokesperson Liz
Harrington.
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