The mother of an Illinois 17-year-old charged in the fatal shooting of two men during a protest in Wisconsin said neither her son nor the protesters should have been on the street that night and put much of the blame for what happened on police and the governor.
Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, is also charged in the wounding of a third person on Aug. 25 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the demonstration to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. “It’s a tragedy what happened to Mr.
Blake. It is,” Wendy Rittenhouse told the Chicago Tribune. “But my son and everybody else should not have been in Kenosha.” Rittenhouse said her son felt he needed to protect businesses in Kenosha from the looting that erupted after Blake.
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