The jury in the case decided that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense while up against a hostile crowd that was partly armed and partly unarmed. He had openly carried a semi-automatic AR-15 style rifle during the event, which he eventually fired at people accosting him, killing two people who hit him and tried to take his weapon as well as injuring one person who pointed a handgun at him. In August 2020, Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, had attended a protest that erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after Jacob Blake, a Black man, was paralyzed in a police shooting there. The not-guilty verdict in the court case against Kyle Rittenhouse has ignited a debate about self-defense laws and also gun carry laws in the United States.
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