Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) sponsored a House bill to award Kyle Rittenhouse a Congressional Gold Medal for “protect(ing) the community of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) riot on August 25, 2020,” according to Newsweek.
Rittenhouse, 18, was acquitted on Friday of all charges relating to the incident last year where he shot three people, two fatally, with an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle, during protests against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin after police shot Jacob Blake.
The verdict has been widely celebrated by conservatives in the media and on Capitol Hill as a win for gun rights and self defense laws nationwide.
The full text of Greene’s legislation is not yet available, but its worth noting that Greene was one of 21 House Republicans who voted no on a bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who defended the Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters on January 6.
She told reporters at the time that she voted against the bill because she does not believe the legislation should refer to January 6 as an insurrection.
“I wouldn’t call it an insurrection,” she said.
She also had issue with the language of the bill that referred to the Capitol complex as “the temple of our American Democracy.”
“This is not a temple. That is for sure,” Greene said, according to CNN.
