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Nov 18 2021
News
Judge Bans MSNBC From Rittenhouse Trial
Judge Bruce Schroeder banned MSNBC journalists from the courthouse during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial after a network producer was taken into police custody for "trying to photograph jurors."
The Kenosha Police Department announced Thursday morning that it arrested James J. Morrison, who said he is a producer employed by MSNBC News, for running a red light while tailing the jury's bus
Washington Free BeaconNov 07 2021
Opinion
Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial in Wisconsin, but so is vigilantism
A jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has begun hearing evidence that will help them decide whether Kyle Rittenhouse is guilty of reckless or intentional homicide in the shooting of three people during August 2020 racial injustice protests, or if he acted in self-defense.
What’s really on trial, though, is citizen vigilantism. At a moment when Americans’ willingness to use political violence
MSNBCAug 27 2020
Analysis
The Conservative Defense of Kyle Rittenhouse Is Dangerous Nonsense
On Tuesday night, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot three people in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with an AR-15-style rifle, killing two. Videos of the event tell us an incomplete story of what, exactly, happened that night. But they appear to clearly show this much: Rittenhouse traveled to the protests in illegal possession of an assault weapon to act as a vigilante. He placed himself at the
SlateNov 21 2021
Opinion
How Kyle Rittenhouse’s treatment and trial defied norms
After 27 hours of deliberations over the course of four days, a jury declared Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on the five charges he faced after fatally shooting two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin during social justice protests and violence in August, 2020. For more on the potential implications of the verdict, Insha Rahman, a former public defender and now the Vice President of Advocacy and
PBS NewsHourNov 15 2021
News
Jurors Hear Closing Arguments in Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
A prosecutor hoping to send Kyle Rittenhouse to prison made closing arguments in his homicide trial on Monday. The jury was expected to begin weighing later in the day whether Mr. Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense, or needlessly and illegally, when he shot three men in Kenosha last summer, two of them fatally, during a night of unrest.
Thomas Binger, who is leading the prosecution
New York Times (News)Nov 16 2021
News
Jury begins deliberating in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial
Sean Krajacic/ Pool via REUTERSThe judge in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse instructed the jury on Tuesday to begin deliberating on the fate of the teenager, who killed two men and wounded a third during racial justice protests last year.
The jury, which numbered 18 through two weeks of testimony, was whittled down to 12 for deliberations.
Kenosha County Judge
ReutersNov 12 2021
Opinion
What Kyle Rittenhouse's tears reveal about America
Despite last year's demonstrations supporting racial justice and substantive efforts at political reform, the system that devalues Black lives remains largely -- and powerfully -- intact.
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old on trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for shooting three people and killing two of them, represents the epitome of White privilege in America run amok. Rittenhouse, who has
CNN (Opinion)Nov 10 2021
News
Did state’s own witnesses hurt Rittenhouse case?
Prosecutors wrapped up more than a week of testimony at Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial after calling more than a dozen witnesses — some appearing to help the defense more than the prosecution.
The onus was on prosecutors to counter Rittenhouse’s self-defense claim in shooting dead two men and wounding a third at a protest in Kenosha last year following the shooting of Jacob Blake,
Associated PressNov 07 2021
Analysis
4 takeaways from the first week of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial
The first week of testimony has come to a close in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old charged with homicide after he shot and killed two protesters at a demonstration in Kenosha, Wis., in August 2020.
The protests in Kenosha began after police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, on Aug. 23, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Multiple nights of unrest followed
NPR (Online News)Feb 22 2023
News
Wisconsin man 'maimed' in Kenosha shooting sues Kyle Rittenhouse for emotional distress
The Wisconsin man who was shot in the arm by a then-teenaged Kyle Rittenhouse during a 2020 protest over police brutality has added Rittenhouse to his civil lawsuit against the city of Kenosha and local officials. Gaige Grosskreutz was shot in the arm on Aug. 25, 2020, by Rittenhouse, who had traveled from his home state of Illinois to Kenosha, Wisc., as a counterprotestor to a demonstration
Law & Crime