The rifle used by Kyle Rittenhouse when he shot three people in self-defense during the Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha has been destroyed by a crime lab.
Video of the gun’s destruction was posted online by the media.
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The weapon was fed into a shredder on February 25.
The gun Kyle Rittenhouse used in the 2020 deadly shootings in Kenosha has been shredded by the Wisconsin State Crime Lab. @WISN12News’ @WISN_MINTZ obtained this video through a FOIA request. Story tonight at 6:00.
Full story: https://t.co/E0FyJEpLkZ pic.twitter.com/F0dDpK34nB
— Tanner Kahler (@tannerkahler) March 11, 2022
“Rittenhouse’s attorneys and prosecutors agreed in January that the gun would be destroyed. Rittenhouse’s attorneys has said Rittenhouse didn’t want someone to buy it as a trophy,” local station WTMJ reports.
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Rittenhouse fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and shot and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, during a riot in Kenosha in August 2020. A jury determined that the teenager was acting in self-defense and he was found not guilty across the board.
The verdict did not stop many in the media from continuing to brand him a “murderer.”
TUCKER: “Will you be suing any news organizations?”
KYLE RITTENHOUSE: “We’re looking at quite a few, politicians, athletes, celebrities, Whoppi Goldberg is on the list, she called me a murderer after I was acquitted… So is Cenk [Uyhur] from the Young Turks.” pic.twitter.com/MULZf38Vkf
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 22, 2022
“We’re going to hold everybody who lied about me accountable, such as everybody who lied called me a White supremacist,” Rittenhouse said during an appearance on Tucker Carlson last month. “They’re all going to be held accountable. And we’re going to handle them in a courtroom.”
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