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Last week in Kenosha, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges. He was facing five charges, including intentional homicide for killing two people and injuring a third during protests in the city of Kenosha last summer. For many, the case and the decision have raised questions about what we consider self-defense and who is truly protected by our laws.
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The Rittenhouse trial served as yet another example of the division in this country. It’s stirred intense feelings and reactions, especially among local activists and social justice organizers in Wisconsin who are fighting against racial and systemic inequity.
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More than 100 people gathered in the blustery cold at Kenosha’s Civic Center Park Sunday, for a protest responding to the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.
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After three full days of deliberation, the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse case found the 18-year-old not guilty on all five counts Friday.
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After more than 20 hours of deliberation, jurors unanimously found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty.
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Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha, Wisconsin, shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice.
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A timeline of key events before and after Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people during a night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.
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John Gross, UW Law School clinical law professor and director of the Public Defender Project, weighs in on the mistrial motions that the judge has pended as the jury deliberates in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial.
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Day two of jury deliberations in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse ended without a verdict Wednesday at the Kenosha County Courthouse. Outside the courthouse, supporters of both Rittenhouse and the men Rittenhouse killed, Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum, gathered while jury deliberations were underway.
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The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial deliberated for a third day without reaching a verdict Thursday, while the judge banned MSNBC from the courthouse after a freelancer for the network was accused of following the jurors in their bus.