Within minutes of the outcome, gun-rights organizations sent emails holding the verdict up as an endorsement of the Second Amendment. Jurors left the courthouse without comment. Gittings said she has expressed empathy for Rittenhouse, “but that’s just not reciprocated back.” “Every day I wish I could come home to him and unload some of this weight that is on my shoulders, but I can’t because he’s dead, and now the system is telling me that no one needs to answer for that. “I miss Anthony every single day,” she said, fighting back tears.
Gittings later said the verdict left her heartbroken but not surprised. They were escorted to the parking lot and drove away. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune)Īs the arguments raged on the steps, Huber’s girlfriend Hannah Gittings and his great-aunt Susan Hughes slowly made their way down a ramp surrounded by a gantlet of deputies and media. It’s been shown over and over.”Īctivist Vaun Mayes confronts Kyle Rittenhouse supporters on the steps of the Kenosha County Courthouse after Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges in his murder trial, Nov. “Now we have another shooting in this town, and he’s getting off today. “(Jacob Blake) was shot seven times in the back in front of his children and paralyzed,” he said.
“We should have the right to self-defense.”Īcross the steps, Justin Blake, who like other activists believed Rittenhouse received deference that no Black defendant would get, condemned the verdict. “I’m very, very happy about it,” she said by phone later as she prepared to leave Kenosha for her hometown of Plainfield.
After the final “not guilty” was read, pro-Rittenhouse demonstrators erupted in cheers.Įmily Cahill smiled and shouted, “Yeah!” She hopped up and down in celebration and waved a sign that said, “Self-defense is not a crime,” before sprinting away down the street. With no loudspeakers to broadcast the proceedings happening inside, the crowd outside relied on cellphones to follow the verdicts. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)Īs word of the imminent verdict filtered out to the courthouse steps, which have served all week as a forum for demonstrators, a huge media scrum formed around Justin Blake, Jacob Blake’s uncle, and local activists. Shequila Morrison, Justin Blake, Tanya McLean, Bishop Tavis Grant and Vaun Mayes listen as the verdict is read in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial, outside of the Kenosha County Courthouse on Nov.
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