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After Kyle Rittenhouse trial, a city and country wonder ‘where we go from here’

KENOSHA, Wis. — The deadly rifle fire pierced the air just a block from Linda Tolliver’s used tire shop, and nearly 15 months later the 18-year-old gunman, Kyle Rittenhouse, went on trial in a courthouse only four blocks away.

Since the fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, there has been a national spotlight on this small city along the shore of Lake Michigan that Tolliver, 78, calls home.

“I’m exhausted,” she said from inside a frigid garage lined with car jacks and stacks of tires. “Where we go from here, no one knows.”

On Saturday, a day after Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in the shootings on Aug. 25, 2020, during a protest against police brutality

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