Kyle Rittenhouse is now a free man after fatally shooting two men and wounding a third during anti-racism protests last year, but his trial has left behind a divided America – and done little to ease tensions in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where the killings took place.
Rittenhouse, 18, who faced charges of homicide, was acquitted in full on the grounds of self-defense. But the jury’s decision did not calm the people outside the Kenosha county courthouse in the hours after news of the verdict rippled across the city, and the rest of the United States.
The shouting matches that flared on the courthouse steps between supporters of opposing sides embodied the wildly different lenses through which a divided America viewed the case.
Reaction to the Rittenhouse verdict has been mixed. pic.twitter.com/ssWxy0aKGJ
— markmaycott (@markmaycot) November 20, 2021
Pretty tepid protests to date – Protesters Take to Streets Following Rittenhouse‘s Not Guilty Verdict
