No ruling today changes our reality in Wisconsin that we have work to do toward equity, accountability, and justice that communities across our state are demanding and deserve.”Įvers also called for calm: “I echo the calls of local Kenosha community leaders and join them in asking everyone who might choose to assemble and exercise their First Amendment rights in any community to please only do so safely and peacefully. Update: Governor Evers issued the following statement on November 19: “No verdict will be able to bring back the lives of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, or heal Gaige Grosskreutz’s injuries, just as no verdict can heal the wounds or trauma experienced by Jacob Blake and his family.
“He waved a gun in the face of people exercising their First Amendment rights. He did not come to help the community,” Bautch said in a statement released by Citizen Action.
“Kyle Rittenhouse crossed state lines to come to Wisconsin with the intent to infiltrate a peaceful protest organized by leaders and residents in Kenosha calling for racial justice. They underscore that the police do not protect communities of color in the same way they do white people.”Ĭitizen Action of Wisconsin’s Movement Politics Director JoAnna Bautch called the verdict a “travesty.” The events in Kenosha stem from the deep roots of white supremacy in our society’s institutions. “But Kyle Rittenhouse isn’t the only one responsible for the deaths that night. “Despite Kyle Rittenhouse’s conscious decision to take the lives of two people protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake by police, he was not held responsible for his actions, something that is not surprising,” Shaadie Ali, interim executive director of the ACLU of Wisconsin, said in a statement.
RITTENHOUSE NOT GUILTY TRIAL
We have seen so many Black and brown youth killed, only to be put on trial posthumously, while the innocence of Kyle Rittenhouse was virtually demanded by the judge.” The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is what we should expect from our judicial system, but that standard is not always applied equally. Senate, issued a statement from his campaign account immediately after the verdict, saying, “Over the last few weeks, many dreaded the outcome we just witnessed. Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, who is running for U.S. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers activated the National Guard to be ready to help the city in the event of unrest after the jury announced its verdict. Jurors were instructed by the judge to set aside the social and political upheaval surrounding the case and consider only whether Rittenhouse believed his life was in danger when he shot the three men.
The jury deliberated for four days, after hearing eight days of testimony, before reaching its decision Friday morning. Rosenbaum, Huber, and Grosskreutz were in Kenosha along with hundreds of demonstrators during days of protest against the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha police officer. The Kenosha County jury in the Rittenhouse murder trial found that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz after traveling to Kenosha from Illinois and posting himself at a used car lot, which he said he was defending from vandalism, with an AR-15-style rifle on August 25, 2020. Kyle Rittenhouse, the white teenager who shot three people, killing two of them, during Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Kenosha, Wisconsin in the summer of 2020, was found not guilty of all the charges against him on November 19. Kyle Rittenhouse illegally carrying an AR-15, which he used to kill two and wound another in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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