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 Aug. 25 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the demonstration to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.
Rittenhouse said her son felt he needed to protect businesses in Kenosha from the looting that erupted after Blake was shot seven times in the back two nights earlier.