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Kyle Rittenhouse verdict - live: Protests across America as Biden ‘angry and concerned’ by decision
Nov 20, 2021 2 mins, 30 secs

Kyle Rittenhouse has been found not guilty on all counts in his homicide trial, after four days of tense jury deliberations.

Conservative politicians around the country celebrated the decision, with GOP congressman Madison Cawthorn offering Mr Rittenhouse an internship, and telling supporters to “be armed, be dangerous, and be moral” while exercising the right to self-defense.

Others, like writer and critic Roxane Gay, said the decision “emboldens white supremacist vigilantes.”.

President Joe Biden said he was angry and concerned after the verdict.

Around 200 protesters broke windows and threw objects at the police in Portland, Oregon on Friday night after Kyle Rittenhouse was cleared over the shooting of three people in Wisconsin last year.

About 100 demonstrators marched through Oakland, California, on Friday, November 19, to protest the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.

The lead lawyer on Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense team has said that the decision to have the teenager testify at trial “wasn’t a close call”.

Mark Richards, the lead defense laywer, said after the verdict: “At certain points, we wondered whether we would put him on.

“When we prepared Kyle and we worked on his testimony, there were things that we couldn’t talk about in my office, because it got too emotional and he couldn’t handle it,” he said.

The family of Anthony Huber, one of the men that was shot dead by teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, said they were “heartbroken and angry” in a statement released after the court verdict.

John Huber and Karen Bloom, Anthony’s parents, said “there was no justice today” for their son and the other two men shot last year by Rittenhouse.

The family of Anthony Huber said in a statement: “Today’s verdict means there is no accountability for the person who murdered our son.

US President Joe Biden has said that he is angry and concerned after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of intentional homicide in a trial that has gripped America.

The president told reporters that he supported the jury’s decision to find Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges.

But he later released a statement saying: “While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken.”.

While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken.

Small groups of protesters demonstrated against the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict on Friday night in Chicago, New York, Portland and a number of other cities.

Wisconsin’s state assembly speaker Robin Vos has said that the Rittenhouse verdict is proof that “our justice system works.”.

The prosecution in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was a complete disgrace, praising the mob who burned our streets as ‘heroes.’”

A video clip, aired on Friday night on the Fox news programme “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, showed Kyle Rittenhouse speaking from inside a car directly after he was found not guilty of all charges

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has issued a statement regarding the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict

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