vice president harris is familiar with. i think many of us that do protests as you said, with national action network, are concerned that you can send a signal that people can come to a protest and exacerbate a situation or get involved in a situation and kill people and say i was just defending myself. that s very frightening. you know, kristen, this was part of this divide. is this an issue about guns or an issue about social justice? it can be a little bit of all of those things. i think it s also an issue of where people are getting their information. this is part of why you re going to see such division in this country over this case. depending on where you get your news, there s somebody who thinks everybody who attacked kyle rittenhouse that night was armed. it s the case that the first man that came at him was throwing a plastic bag at him. on the other hand, there are a lot of people who would never know from what they watched, the man was not there calling for reform at
january 6th rioters, the big lie, even attacking republicans for simply voting for a public works bill, all of it has helped lead us to this moment. what used to be dismissed as dangerous rhetoric from the far right that nobody was listening to, is being mainstreamed by the man who is reshaping the republican party in his own party. s we, the jury, find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse not guilty. the verdict, not guilty on all counts, magnifying the divisions in a deeply polarizedr america. d it was a case about self-defense, the right to protect oneself. you cannot claim self-defensa against a danger you create. kyle rittenhouse came to da kenosha as a counterprotester, he says, to protect property, ploling the police shooting of jacob break.
reporter: demonstrators taking to the streets across the country this weekend. potesting the acquittal of kyle rittenhouse on all charges. [ crowd chanting ] reporter: from kenosha we want justice, and we re going to get it. and it starts today in kenosha. reporter: to new york city. we stand with kenosha. reporter: and portland. we the jury find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse not guilty. reporter: rittenhouse shaking with emotion collapsing when he learned his fate friday. speaking out moments after leaving the courtroom. the jury reached the correct verdict, self-defense is not illegal. reporter: rittenhouse shot and killed anthony huber and joseph rosenbaum and wounded gaige grosskreutz during protests in kenosha over the police shooting of jacob blake last year. he testified all three shootings were in self-defense. huber s father reacting to the jury s decision. we re all just in shock. we did not expect this.
people understand fists for some reason better than we understand guns. if i said somebody was running at you aggressively. what did you do? i punched him. i beat him to death. what other choice did i have. that s what the rittenhouse team did. never physically touches you, never touches your gun, which is strapped to your body. also the law of self-defense and stand your ground in wisconsin actually allows the jury to consider, when you re assessing whether or not what rittenhouse did was reasonable, the law allows you to consider whether or not he should have backed down. rev, what does this mean for your movement? what should you be fighting for when it comes to the specific issue of preventing vigilanteism? i think you need federal laws that would supersede a lot of these state laws. i think in a few months we re going to be facing the ten-year sentence with trayvon martin
somebody enters your house doing wrong. he was out on the street, he was a provocateur. you just emboldened all these people filled with so much hate. rittenhouse was interviewed by fox news after leaving the yo courtroom? the jury reached the correct verdict. self-defense is not illegal. throughout the trial, rittenhouse was praised on right wing media. when legitimate authority ses refuses to do its sworn duty, others will file the vacuum. rs we don t defend this young boy who defended his community when no one else was doing it. it may very well be your baby boy that they come from. kyle rittenhouse would probably make a pretty good congressional intern. kyle rittenhouse is not guilty, my friends. you have a right to defend yl yourself, be armed, be dangerous, be moral. a lot of people would have been very angry in this countrya if that young man was in any way convicted. already far right groups are calling rittenhouse the hero ic we ve been waiting for. repub