Mayor-Elect Eric Adams Calls For New Yorkers To Keep Protests Peaceful After Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty On All Counts
Adams defended the right to protest but vowed to keep New York City safe from violent demonstrations.
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Adams defended the right to protest but vowed to keep New York City safe from violent demonstrations.
Protesters started gathering outside the Barclays Center around 7 p.m. Friday, listening to speeches before beginning to march through Downtown Brooklyn.
Rittenhouse killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz on Aug. 25, 2020 during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Rittenhouse was was acquitted of all charges Friday, after his trial for shooting three people, killing two of them in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year.
President Trump traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to survey buildings damaged in recent protests and express support for law enforcement, visiting the city nine days after a police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times in the back.
A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters and injuring another with an AR-15-style rifle in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night has been charged as an adult with two counts of first degree homicide and one count of attempted homicide.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Wednesday identified the officer who shot Jacob Blake as Officer Rusten Sheskey.