BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse Not Guilty on All Counts

A jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin has found Kyle Rittenhouse

Rittenhouse was standing guard outside a car dealership in Kenosha on August 25 last year during riots that followed the shooting of Jacob Blake. Police did little or nothing to curb the violence and destruction.

When Rittenhouse attempted to stop a crowd from setting a dumpster on fire, he was approached by a violent Joseph Rosenbaum. That set off the entire chain of events leading to today’s result.

Rittenhouse was threatened and attacked that night by four convicted felons that night; a mentally ill pedophile, car thief and forger, a domestic abuser, and a burglar who assaulted his own grandmother.

One attacker threatened to kill him and tried to take Rittenhouse’s rifle. One delivered a flying kick as he layed on the ground. Another struck him on the head and neck with a skateboard. The last one pointed a gun at him.

Rittenhouse used the AR-15 rifle he was carrying to shoot three of his attackers, killing two.

The trial of the 18-year-old Rittenhouse inevitably became a political football. The inept prosecution succeeded in depicting, almost as well as the defense, that in each of the shootings, Rittenhouse had defended himself from physical threats or imminent attacks. Yet the media have been slanting and shading their reports of the testimony, no matter how frustratingly exculpatory it was.

Rittenhouse was portrayed as a racist and a white supremacist, despite everyone involved in the incident that night being a white male.

The jury had to weigh not only the evidence, but also the knowledge that if they found Rittenhouse not guilty of some or all of the charges, it could result in more rioting. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers put 500 National Guardsman on standby in anticipation of the verdict. If he’d bothered to do that during the rioting in Kenosha last year, it’s likely that none of this would have happened.