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Rittenhouse tells Fox News 'not a racist person,' backs BLM
Defendant Kyle Rittenhouse checks his cell phone as he waits with his attorneys for the judge to relieve the jury during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool)
Sun, November 21, 2021, 11:51 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on charges stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest that followed the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer, says in a new interview that he's “not a racist person” and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
“This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense,” the 18-year-old tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview set to air Monday night. Rittenhouse is white, as were the men he shot.
Rittenhouse was 17 last year when he traveled 20 miles (32 kilometers) from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, which had been racked with protests in the wake of the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake. That shooting and the response in Kenosha — protests that turned destructive — became part of the national reckoning over police use of force against Black people following George Floyd's death in Minneapolis the previous May at the hands of police.
Rittenhouse, armed with an AR-style semiautomatic rifle, joined others who said they were intent on protecting private property from potential damage on Aug. 25. During his trial, prosecutors argued that the teenager as a “wannabe soldier” who went looking for trouble that night. Rittenhouse countered that he fired in self-defense after he was attacked and in fear for his life.
The shootings quickly made Rittenhouse a rallying cry for supporters of Second Amendment rights and those angered by the sometimes violent protests seen in some American cities after Floyd's death.
Rittenhouse was photographed in a bar before the trial with apparent members of the far-right Proud Boys. Rittenhouse's attorneys have said he is not a white supremacist.
“I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement, I support peacefully demonstrating,” Rittenhouse tells Carlson in excerpts of the interview released by Fox News ahead of its airing.
A jury last Friday found Rittenhouse not guilty on charges of homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangering in the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, now 28.
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Public relations bid, believe me when I say if he had shot blacks instead of whites, all hell would have broken out after the not guilty verdict. BLM has an agenda, and it's to punish and destroy whites with their votes in an election. Get reparations and instill socialism for free welfare for their poor followers.
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BLM folks never tear down statutes or break into stores and loot and burn. Insert dark green font
He is a dumb kid. End of story.
He can suck up to media and DEMOCRAT sycophants all day long and they will still despise him.
We all know why he made that statement. Do whatcha gotta do, don't get even, get revenge. He spent 87 days in jail and had two phony lawyers. I am behind him 100% Lets go Brandon.
Every one of them !
Did those who keep wailing on him watch his interviews? Most of the people spouting negative things about his trial didn't watch it. He had enough sense to fire Lin Woods and hire some real defense attorneys. His interviews are telling. He's young if you watch his interviews he doesn't seem dumb. His explanations go well beyond one line misleading headlines and are a little heavy for short minded agenda driven mouth pieces.
I watched the trial. A whiny spoiled kid who knew little about guns and had no business walking around in the middle of a protest with a loaded gun. To me he is a black eye in the cause of gun owners. I for one don't want him as a spokesman for my gun rights. He is not too bright to say the least and he will do something stupid again. The only thing he did right was to not hit anyone he wasn't shooting at. There will be a lot of shootings in the future claiming self-defense where it's not self-defense. He should have been convicted. The jury set a really bad precedent.
if rittenhouse was considered a minor when he crossed a state line and killed two and wounded another will his parents be sued for everything they own PLUS ....everything they don't have
Your opinions of him doesn't make him guilty. If he should have been there with a gun or not doesn't make him guilty. Not knowing much about guns doesn't decrease your right to self-defense. When someone defends them self from attack finding them not guilty is not a bad precedent, finding them guilty would be. I haven't seen him trying to be a spokesman related to guns.
"Crossed a state line" Do you know how he happened to be there that night?
It seems that everyone is sitting and putting down Rittenhouse still...but nothing is said about the black guy who took the SUV and mowed down a bunch of White People... Wonder Why..??? It's like he just disappeared or something.. Hmmmmm....