Kyle Rittenhouse, center, pulls out his chair for a meeting Judge Bruce Schroeder called during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 18, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Kyle Rittenhouse, center, pulls out his chair for a meeting Judge Bruce Schroeder called during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 18, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.Photo by Sean Krajacic – Pool/Getty Images
  • Rittenhouse "embodies" the "danger" of "armed white supremacist culture," March For Our Lives said. 
  • "Young people are enraged watching this trial," the gun control advocacy group said on Friday. 
  • Rittenhouse was acquitted on all charges by a jury for fatally shooting two men and injuring a third.

Kyle Rittenhouse embodies the threat of "armed white supremacist culture," March For Our Lives said after the teenager was fully acquitted on Friday in his homicide trial. 

Rittenhouse — who was found not guilty for fatally shooting two men and injuring a third during unrest in August 2020 — came to Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the Black Lives Matter protests to "exploit tragedy," the gun control advocacy group wrote in a statement on Friday.

The group claimed Rittenhouse was treated with "kiddy gloves" and called him a "dangerous vigilante."

"This deadly culture ensnared Kyle Rittenhouse and his three victims," March For Our Lives said. "One thing is clear: Young people are enraged watching this trial, and this will not be our normal."

The group added: "He embodies the very danger posed by an armed white supremacist culture."

March For Our Lives is a gun control advocacy group that was created in 2018 following a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. 

The jury delivered its verdict in the Rittenhouse trial on Friday after three-and-a-half days of deliberation.

The teen had pleaded not guilty in all charges against him and said that he acted in self-defense. 

 

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