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This past week the verdict of the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial found Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who shot and killed two protesters at a Black Lives Matter protest-turned riot in Kenosha, WI last year. There are many different opinions on what happened in Kenosha, the verdict the jury should have reached, the charges that should have been brought, and if the criminal justice system did its job. Watching the videos of that night and watching the trial are the only two ways for most people to receive information without a narrative being attached to it. Kyle Rittenhouse has been deemed everything from a white supremacist and a villain to a brave man and a hero, spoiler alert, both of those are wrong. 

The reality is that Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17-year-old that made an unwise decision, to go to the Kenosha protests (riots), but had the same right to be there as the Antifa members that were burning dumpsters, lighting cars on fire, and destroying a city that many of them didn’t live in. When Kyle Rittenhouse killed a man in self-defense, he was well within his right to do so, and the court found that to be true as well.  

 Kyle Rittenhouse should not be seen as a hero to look up to or a villain to hate; he should be seen as a teenager who made a bad decision that put him in an impossible situation. He didn’t do the right thing by going, but he also did not break the law by attending or acting in self-defense. The court reached the correct verdict, as they also did in a similar self-defense case on the same day, the case of Andrew “AJ Coffee IV, a black man. This was an example of the justice system getting it right and reaching the correct decision.  

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