RT
Kyle Rittenhouse has shared his thoughts after a Wisconsin jury acquitted him of murder charges. The teenager was accused of the felony offenses after fatally shooting two people amid the unrest in Kenosha.
“The jury reached the correct verdict. Self-defense is not illegal,” Rittenhouse said, while being filmed riding in the back seat of a car. “I’m glad that everything went well.”
“It’s been a rough journey, but we made it through. We made it through the hard part,” the teenager said in a teaser to the upcoming Fox News documentary about his case.
The jury cleared Rittenhouse of all felony charges, including first-degree intentional homicide, on Friday, after more than three days of deliberations.
The prosecution argued that Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time and armed with an AR-15-style rifle, had broken the law by killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and by wounding Gaige Grosskreutz amid the BLM protests and riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020.
Rittenhouse claimed he was defending himself against an aggressive person, and later against an angry mob that chased him…
