Kenosha unrest

In August 2020, in the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting, protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States and elsewhere occurred as part of the larger Black Lives Matter movement and reactions to other high-profile police killings of unarmed Black people in 2020. 
Protests
After police shot Jacob Blake, many people protested in Kenosha. It was not wholly a peaceful protest. Some people broke into shops and stole the things inside. Some shops were burned down. Armed civilian counter-protesters also came, some of them from other states. They said they wanted to protect businesses.
Responses

On August 24, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers activated the Wisconsin National Guard to protect fire fighters and critical infrastructure in Kenosha.

On August 25, one of the civilian volunteers shot three people, two of whom were later pronounced dead. The shooter was a 17 year old named Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse later walked towards police vehicles with his hands up and still armed with a semi-automatic rifle, but the police vehicles drove past him. Both the men he killed, Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, were white.  Many conservatives thought Rittenhouse did not deserve to go to prison, and an online fund for his $2 million bail was filled.

Trial and acquittal
250px|right|Rittenhouse spoke as a free-man in mid-December, 2021.
Rittenhouse's trial is scheduled to start on November 1. He is charged with homicide: first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. He is also charged with carrying a weapon even though he was under 18 years old, which is illegal in that state. The largest punishment he could get is life in prison.

In the same month, Judge Bruce Schroeder thought that the "unlawful possession of gun charge" and "another charge" did not make sense, and a jury decided that Rittenhouse legally killed those white men as he only defended himself under a life-threatening situation. Rittenhouse did not have to go to jail for these deaths. Rittenhouse's lawyer was also being interviewed and he said that he was simply representing a client, not a cause.Kyle Rittenhouse's defense lawyer says former attorney Lin Wood wanted to use teen 'for a cause'. Taiyler S. Mitchell

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