NOT GUILTY KYLE TRIAL
Please contact us for subscription options. Kyle James Hartigan, 27, had been on trial for the past week on a charge of unlawfully killing 35-year-old Daniel Lloyd, who died in the early hours of the morning on February 7, 2020. Prosecutors said Rittenhouse was, in fact, the aggressor, and that he was part of a vigilante mob determined to intimidate Black Lives Matter demonstrators.Īnadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. The prosecution maintained Rittenhouse had no business being there, 20 miles from his hometown in neighboring Antioch, Illinois. Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who killed two people during demonstrations last year in Kenosha, Wis., was found not guilty on all charges Friday. Supporters of him from around the country raised around $2 million dollars for his bail money. Kyle Rittenhouse’s not-guilty-verdict sparked protests all across the country, as there were many people who stood outside of the courthouse. He says he shot the three men in self-defense after all three came towards him. Rittenhouse claims he was invited to the streets of Kenosha by property owners last August, to help with protection, after a night of looting and fires. He had been accused of illegally possessing an AR-15 assault rifle when he shot two men dead, and wounded a third, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Kenosha last summer.ĭemonstrations, sometimes violent, had broken out after a Kenosha police officer shot an unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, in August. Judge Bruce Schroeder last week dismissed a charge of illegal gun possession against Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse, wearing a dark jacket with a burgundy tie and shirt, stood behind the defense table as each not guilty verdict was read. He had faced the possibility of life in prison after being charged with five counts, including first-degree intentional homicide. Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges against him Friday, including intentional homicide the most serious of five charges against him in a case that largely. Rittenhouse, now 18, broke down in tears as the verdict was read aloud in the Kenosha courtroom, hugging one of his attorneys in apparent relief. A jury in the US state of Wisconsin acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all counts in a closely watched trial following the fatal shootings of two protesters and the wounding of a third.
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