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The boy who wins a murder demonstrates in Wisconsin: "I'm not a racist, I support BLM"
In an interview with the Fox network days after being cleared of any guilt, Kyle Rittenhaus claimed the case was unrelated to the race issue in any way.
"I believe change is needed," the 18-year-old boy, who shot dead two people and wounded another person in a riot last year, attacked the justice system
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Monday, 22 November 2021, 17:25 Updated: 19:09
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In video: Kyle Rittenhouse, the boy who killed two people in the Wisconsin riots, sobbed in court after being convicted of murder (Photo: Reuters)
Kyle Rittenhouse, who is acquitted of all the offenses he was charged with after shooting dead two people and injuring another person during riots that erupted in Wisconsin last year following the shooting of a black man, claims he is not a racist and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
"This case has nothing to do with race. It has never had anything to do with race. It has to do with the right to self-defense," Rittenhaus said in an interview with Fox News, which will be published in full today (Monday).
The 18-year-old boy is white, as are the two people he shot to death.
"I believe change is needed. I believe the prosecution is behaving inappropriately, not just in my case but in other cases. It's just amazing to see how much a prosecutor can exploit someone."
Rittenhouse was 17 when he drove 32 miles from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha last year. From the internal discourse on police violence against blacks that arose after the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May.
The jury accepted the defense position.
Rittenhouse cries during trial, last week (Photo: Reuters)
Rittenhaus, who was armed with a semi-automatic rifle, joined other people who claimed they wanted to protect the private property of local residents from acts of vandalism. The defense at trial argued that Rittenhaus acted in self-defense, while the prosecution tried to prove he took the law into his own hands and came to town to look for trouble.
"I told everyone there what happened," he said in an interview about the trial that divides the United States. "I said I had to do it. I was just attacked. I felt dizzy, vomited, could not breathe." He said, "The jury came to the right verdict. Self-defense is not illegal."
The shooting quickly made Rittenhouse a hero for supporters of the Second Amendment, which defends the right to bear arms, and for those who were outraged by the demonstrations that erupted in the United States after Floyd's assassination and sometimes escalated into violence.
Rittenhaus was photographed at a bar before the trial with people who were apparently members of the far-right "Proud Boys" movement, but his lawyers claimed he did not support the white race supremacy ideology.
"I'm not a racist. I support the BLM movement, I support a peaceful demonstration," he defended in an interview with Fox.
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