Kyle Rittenhouse claims he supports the Black Lives Matter movement days after he was acquitted of all charges relating to the murder of two men at a BLM protest in Kenosha Wis. last year.
“I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement,” Rittenhouse told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in an interview to be aired on Monday.
“I support peacefully demonstrating,” he told Carlson, according to a transcript of the interview obtained by the Hill. “I believe there needs to be change. I believe there’s a lot of prosecutorial misconduct, not just in my case but in other cases. It’s just amazing to see how much a prosecutor can take advantage of someone.”
Rittenhouse was acquitted on Friday of all charges relating to the August 25, 2020 incident where he shot and killed two men–Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26– and injured Gaige Grosskreutz during a BLM protest in Wisconsin after police shot Jacob Blake.
Conservatives celebrate the verdict as a win for gun rights and self defense laws, while liberals see it as setting a dangerous precedent about white vigilantism and how the criminal justice system treats defendants differently based on race.
However, Rittenhouse told Carlson his case “had nothing to do with race. It had to do with the right to self defense.”
