Kenosha, Wisconsin

Not Guilty

On November 19, the fourth day of deliberations, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, of all charges in his trial for shooting three men, two of whom died, during demonstrations in Kenosha in August 2020. The protests were in response to the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, which was captured on cellphone video and came just three months after the killing of George Floyd. Prosecutors argued Rittenhouse, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, acted needlessly and recklessly; he claimed it was self defense.