Five schools near the Kenosha County Courthouse in Wisconsin canceled in-person learning for the remainder of the week as jurors completed their third day of deliberations in the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Thursday.
The Kenosha Unified Schol District placed the five schools into virtual learning mode “out of an abundance of caution due to the proximity of school boundaries to the courthouse and the number of students who walk to and from school,” district officials said.
“We feel this is the best course of action to protect our students and staff during an uncertain time,” officials said, noting there is no “existing imminent danger.”
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Friday authorized 500 National Guard troops to support local law enforcement ahead of the deliberations.
Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth on Sunday said he had not yet called in the National Guard.
“We’ve been preparing this for a couple of months,” he said. “We’ve been working with local and state and federal officials. We have intelligence being worked on all the time and truthfully our intelligence is saying that not much is going on,” Beth said.
Deliberations on Thursday ended without a verdict as jurors weighed the case against Rittenhouse, who faces five charges, including reckless homicide in the first degree for killing activists Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber with his assault-style rifle, and first-degree attempted homicide for wounding medic Gaige Grosskreutz during a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 25, 2020.
The panel of 12 jurors is expected to resume deliberations at 10 a.m. on Friday morning.
Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, and his attorneys have argued that he acted in self-defense when he shot the three men, with Rittenhouse breaking down in tears, saying he “didn’t do anything wrong” as he testified before the court.
Prosecutors argued that Rittenhouse acted recklessly by attending the protests with an AR-15-style rifle, inciting fear and violence in those around him and therefore could not claim self-defense under Wisconsin law.
On Wednesday, jurors watched two videos — an FBI surveillance video and a drone video of the shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum — with the second prompting a motion from the defense for Judge Bruce Schroeder to dismiss the case, stating the quality of the drone video provided to the jury was of a lesser quality than what prosecutors had access to.
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It is, on the one hand—a shame, and on the other hand, absolutely ridiculous and absurd that lawless, violent protesters have placed such a stranglehold on our society. This should never have been allowed to happen. And every single source that has provided a voice for these people—that has given them support and encouragement—you have proved your hatred for this country and its values and principles. It is beyond reprehensible.
Every Liberal politician who thinks that everything is fine in the name of freedom should resign or be removed from office. The Media, which feeds the frenzy on a daily basis, should be punished and made to be held accountable for giving vandals, thieves, looters, and killers a platform where they are treated as though they are model citizens.
To fully advance the Demonic, Lying Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive agendas is to; dividing our citizens with hate and promote rioting, burning, looting, open borders, gun control, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender “gay marriage” and the like, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with our Constitution, GOD, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the guise of “anti-discrimination.”
IT just goes to show, HOW SHAMBOLIC our leadership (SO CALLED) have become.
time to put this baby to bed in america my tolerance level has been eroded to the point of where
if we are going to fight lets just get it over with.
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On the one hand we have the media trying their best to whip up lawless mobs, and on the other 500 National Guard, schools shutting down, businesses shuttered, all in recognition and encouragement of lawless mobs. They want the whole city set on fire and the jury so terrified that they will vote with the mob rather on the evidence. This is a setup. Fortunately the judge and jury had the guts to stand up to this ****. This is very rare today, to stand up to blood thirsty/lawless mobs running our courts. We all need to stand up for law and order. For justice based verdicts, and legal rights for all.