find the defendant not guilty. as to the third count, not guilty. as to the fourth count, not guilty, as to the fifth count, not guilty. now he s really crying. rittenhouse who faced live in prison broke down in court after the verdict was read. his attorney said rittenhouse would like to get on with his life but the judge heavily criticized for bias towards the defense was fair and then discussed the larger implications of the verdict. when you want to talk about implications and precedent and things like that, is it ever going to happen again? you know, is there ever going to be a total unrest in kenosha or some other city and that is going to happen? you know, i just don t see that. it was a case about self-defense. the right to protect one s self. president biden told reporters that we have to respect the jury s decision. and the parents of anthony huber, rittenhouse s second verdict released this statement. today s verdict means there is no accountability for the
rittenhouse not guilty. they were testing the limits of lethal and deadly vigilanteism. as a legal matter, this case was also about more than murder. the prosecutors made the specific case that rittenhouse was a murderer, they also gave the jury evidence of other lesser crimes, meaning the jury had the option to find a kind of middle ground. they had the option to rule, for example, there may not have been first degree murder but were crimes of endangering the public bringing that illegally obtained gun to the rally and shooting three people. killing two of them. the jury weighed five total charges, that includes first degree murder what they call homicide in that state, and options on other violence and charges about reckless endangerment of safety. so the jury could have found guilty for some and not for others, but as you see in this news, this jury cleared the defendant of everything. unanimously finding not guilty on all five charges. to keep that legal context in mind a
good. determination, focus, it s possible. hey, john, thank you, baby. love it. hall of famer gina shock, john stanton, thanks to both of you. that does it for the beat tonight. it s joy reid s time now. jason johnson is on. it s jason i m passing to, hey. hi, ari. it is always joy time. i m just a messenger now. thank you. good evening, everyone. i m jason johnson in for joy reid joining us in a few minutes. we ll begin the reidout with another gut bench an 18-year-old kyle rittenhouse that killed two human being at a black lives matter rally was found not guilty on all five counts. the state of wisconsin versus kyle rittenhouse, as to the first court of the information joseph rosenbaum, we the jury