Kyle Rittenhouse is a free man after a Wisconsin jury found him not guilty of killing two men with an AR-15 type firearm during unrest in Black Lives Matter march..The 18-year-old collapsed and had to be helped back into his chair as the last “not guilty” vote was read..The mainly-white jury acquitted Rittenhouse in the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as the shooting of Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, who survived..The jury deliberated for more than three days..Rittenhouse’s attorneys argued self-defense, claiming that he was provoked by all his victims, during BLM unrest in 2020..“I did what I had to do to stop the person who was attacking me,” Rittenhouse tearfully testified last week..“Two of them passed away but I stopped the threat from attacking me.”.Rittenhouse could have gotten life in prison if found guilty on the most serious charge — first-degree intentional homicide — or what some other states call first-degree murder..Gov. Tony Evers put 500 members of the National Guard on standby, hoping to keep the peace.
