Introducing his interview with Kyle Rittenhouse — the first since he was acquitted — says it's "hard to ignore the yawning class divide" between Rittenhouse, 18, who worked as a janitor and cook in high school, and "his many critics in the media."
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After Kyle Rittenhouse, then 17, fatally shot two people and wounded a third during destructive demonstrations in August 2020, he says his mom "wanted to go into hiding."
But, he says, "I said no, the right thing to do would be to turn myself in — I didn't do anything wrong."
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Rittenhouse says his old lawyers had him do interviews "which I should never have done" & took their time bailing him out, telling him he was "safer in jail."
Now there's a dispute over the refunded bail $. More on that via : chicagotribune.com/news/ct-kyle-r
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Kyle Rittenhouse, in his first interview, with , says of prosecutors:
"If they did this to me, imagine what they could've done to a person of color who doesn't maybe have the resources I do, or [if] it's not widely publicized like my case."
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