Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty in Kenosha shooting – live

Rittenhouse killed two people and injured a third at protests last year – follow live

… to further coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial – and its aftermath. The jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in one of the most closely watched US trials this year, has delivered its verdict: not guilty on all counts.

Rittenhouse was 17 when he travelled from Illinois to Wisconsin on the night of 25 August 2020. In a summer marked by protests against racial injustice across the US and beyond, Kenosha was host to demonstrations, which sometimes turned violent, particularly after the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer.

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