Published 14 November 2021 at 14.46
Abroad. The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse – the American teenager who shot dead two left-wing extremists in connection with a BLM riot – is coming to an end. The governor of Wisconsin has put 500 soldiers from the National Guard on standby in case the verdict would result in unrest, reports RT.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, then 17, shot dead two men and injured a third with a semi-automatic rifle in connection with a left-wing extremist riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2020.
The teenager has since the start been convicted by the media, who were careful to emphasize that he was white and probably also a “right-wing extremist”.
But during the ongoing trial, information has emerged that strongly indicates that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense after being attacked by a violent mob. The prosecutor has had a real uphill battle in his attempts to prove that it was murder.
The man who was injured but survived the shooting, Gaige Grosskreutz, admitted, for example, that Kyle Rittenhouse had not shot him until Grosskreutz aimed his own gun against the teenager and started walking towards him.
One of the shot-dead left-wing extremists, Joseph Rosenbaum, was a pedophile who had previously been convicted of sexually abusing five different boys between the ages of 9 and 11. The other, Anthony Huber, was among other things convicted of violence against family members.
The closing arguments in the case against Kyle Rittenhouse will be held on Monday, according to the plan.