Jacob Blake

Loved ones of Jacob Blake expressed outrage following the not guilty verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial Friday with one relative referring to the ruling as a
“terrible, tragic injustice.”

Activist Bishop Tavis Grant spoke outside the Kenosha courthouse moments after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges after killing two people during social justice protests last summer. Grant appeared alongside Justin Blake, the uncle of Jacob Blake who was killed in Kenosha and whose death prompted the protests Rittenhouse attended.

The jury found Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts in the murder trial connected to the shootings of three people in Kenosha, Wis.

Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges related to his killing two unarmed men and shooting an armed man during a protest in Wisconsin.

As Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial sits under a national spotlight, so too do the stories of the three people he shot, two of whom died, during unrest Kenosha in the summer of 2020.

On the night of Aug. 25, 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse went from being described as a 17-year-old police enthusiast to a teenage gunman accused of shooting three people, two of them fatally.

A juror in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial was dismissed Thursday after a court security officer reported that the man told a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, which set off protests in the Wisconsin city where Rittenhouse is accused of shooting three people.

A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin has filed a federal lawsuit alleging police did nothing to prevent the violence.

Federal prosecutors say they won’t file charges against a white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last year