Wisconsin

Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse's lead defense attorney, offered his reaction after a jury found his client not guilty on all counts Friday, Nov. 19.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio issued a strong reaction to the verdict, calling it a “miscarriage of justice.” President Joe Biden said, “I stand by what the jury has to say. The jury system works.”

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has called for a federal review following a jury’s acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in the fatal shooting of two men and wounding of a third during a night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020.

Reaction poured in Friday afternoon after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty.

David Hancock, the Kyle Rittenhouse spokesperson, spoke at length with the media after Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges against him in Kenosha on Friday, Nov. 19.

The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial returned for a fourth day of deliberations Friday, the morning after the judge raised eyebrows among lawyers when he let a juror take home a copy of the detailed legal instructions he gave to the panel.

Kenosha police say a person that was taken into custody Wednesday evening, Nov. 17 was trying to photograph jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial began deliberating for a third day Thursday with a new defense request for a mistrial hanging over the politically and racially fraught case.

Battered and burned during last year's unrest, Kenosha's uptown neighborhood felt the brunt of the destruction, including the destruction of local businesses, but there's no rush to board up while waiting on a verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

Kyle Rittenhouse's attorneys asked the judge to declare a mistrial even as the jury in the murder case was deliberating Wednesday, saying the defense received an inferior copy of a potentially crucial video from prosecutors.

The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial deliberated a full day on Tuesday without reaching a verdict over whether he was the instigator in a night of bloodshed in Kenosha or a concerned citizen who came under attack while trying to protect property.

Kyle Rittenhouse played a direct role Tuesday in deciding, albeit randomly, who will be the final 12 jurors that will decide his innocence or guilt in the murder trial over his killing two protesters and injuring a third last summer.

After a full day of arguments, the jurors hearing the Kyle Rittenhouse trial were told to return Tuesday morning for the start of deliberations in the case that has stirred fierce debate in the U.S. over guns, vigilantism and law and order.

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial has gripped southeast Wisconsin and the rest of the nation for two weeks straight.

Wisconsin Army National Guard troops are reporting for state active duty to support Kenosha law enforcement in relation to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

The jury that will decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate will be allowed to consider some lesser charges in addition to those prosecutors originally brought against him, after fierce debate by both sides on Friday.

The defense rested its case Thursday at the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, setting the stage for closing arguments in the shootings that left Americans divided over whether he was a patriot taking a stand against lawlessness or a vigilante.