Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenage boy who k*lled two people and sh*t another amid protests and rioting over police conduct in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, has been acquitted of first-degree intentional hom!c!de and four other felony charges.
Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges on Friday, November 19, CNN reports.
He had faced five counts, including charges of first-degree reckless hom!c!de, first-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree intentional hom!c!de, and attempted first-degree attempted hom!c!de. He faced up to life in prison had he been convicted.
After 25 hours of deliberation, the 12-person jury accepted Rittenhouse’s explanation that he had acted reasonably to defend himself in an unruly and turbulent scene in August 2020, days after a white police officer sh*t Jacob Blake, a Black resident, during a summer of unrest following the m*rder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. ?: Associated Press
