On Thursday, a juror was dismissed from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial for allegedly joking about last year’s police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, which prompted the protests in Wisconsin where Rittenhouse fatally shot two demonstrators. According to WBBM, prosecutors said the dismissed juror jokingly asked the courthouse deputy, “Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake …
Officials announced Tuesday that there will be no charges against the Wisconsin police officer who was filmed shooting Jacob Blake in the back seven times, leaving him paralyzed. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley said Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey has a credible argument for self-defense in the August 23 shooting. The two officers who …
Illinois teen Kyle Rittenhouse pleaded not guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during a protest in Wisconsin. The Kenosha News reported that attorneys representing Rittenhouse, who turned 18 this week, are expected to argue that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. A trial date was set for March 29 during Tuesday’s hearing …
On Monday, a Wisconsin judge set bail at $2 million for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old Illinois boy accused of fatally shooting two people during an August 25 protest in Kenosha. WLS-TV reported that Monday’s hearing was held via video conference. The judge also scheduled Rittenhouse’s preliminary hearing for December 3. Rittenhouse allegedly used an AR-15-style …
Jacob Blake, the man whose shooting by police last month sparked another round of nationwide protests against police brutality, appeared in court from his hospital bed on Friday, entering several not guilty pleas on charges stemming from a domestic incident in May. Blake, who is paralyzed from the waist down from the August 23 shooting …
The 17-year-old Illinois boy arrested after Tuesday night’s fatal shooting during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been formally charged on a six-count complaint, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with first degree intentional homicide for the murder of Anthony Huber, 26; first-degree reckless homicide for the fatal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36; …
The protests are in response to the police shooting of an unarmed Black man
