In the summer of 2020, during the Black Lives Matter movement protests in Kenosha , Wisconsin, he shot and shot two people, wounding a third.
Today Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, was acquitted by the jury. Or, rather, he was found "not guilty" of all the charges.
The young man, who was 17 at the time, claimed to have acted in self-defense against the demonstrators.
A verdict expected for days in the US city, with the court armored by the police for fear of protests by activists.
As in many other American cities, Kenosha too had been crossed by the wave of demonstrations to denounce police violence against black citizens, also and especially after the death of George Floyd, in May 2020, during a police stop in Minneapolis, an affair that saw agent Dereck Chauvin sentenced to 22 years in prison.
And it was in Kenosha that another African American, Jacob Blake, was seriously injured by the police.
(Unioneonline / lf)
