Kyle Rittenhouse trial begins with starkly different portraits of teenager who killed 2 protesters in Kenosha
KENOSHA, Wis. — Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial began Tuesday with dueling portraits of a shooter whose case has come to embody the country’s deep political divide.
In contradicting opening statements, the prosecution painted Rittenhouse as a “chaos tourist” who arrived in Kenosha amid protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake to impose his own sense of justice. The defense, in response, portrayed him as a selfless, if naive, teenager who was forced
