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Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Issues Statement: Protected Himself From ‘Potentially Deadly Mob’

Rittenhouse "exercised his God-given, Constitutional, common law and statutory law right to self-defense"

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Issues Statement: Protected Himself From ‘Potentially Deadly Mob’
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On Friday, a legal team at Pierce Bainbridge defending 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse released a lengthy statement in defense of their client, who was charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday.

Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was allegedly involved in a two-part shooting on Tuesday night that left two dead and one injured during far-left rioting and chaos in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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