Kyle Rittenhouse Mom – Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother has launched a new fundraising campaign to help pay for her son’s legal defence after he was accused of shooting two men to death and badly injuring a third during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this summer.
Kyle Rittenhouse is being held without bail. Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, drove him across state lines and dropped him off at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the night he shot three people in August 2020. Wendy Rittenhouse was the one who dropped him off at the event.
Following the shootings in Kenosha the day before they occurred, Rittenhouse drove to his friend’s house in Kenosha where the gun that was used in the shootings was kept, according to testimony in his murder trial.
It wasn’t until the next day that he stole the gun from his house and proceeded to the Kenosha protests, where the shootings took place. He was charged with second-degree murder.
The testimony was not called into question. After a post on social media incorrectly claimed that his mother drove him to the “riot” with “an assault rifle,” a post circulated on Monday as the trial drew its end.
“Why are we just glancing over the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother put her minor child in a vehicle, drove him across state lines, and dropped him off in the middle of a riot armed with an assault rifle?” the post, which includes photos of Kyle and Wendy Rittenhouse, asks.
“Why are we just glancing over the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother put her minor child in a vehicle, drove him across state lines, and dropped him off in the middle of “Why isn’t she in prison?” you might wonder.
One version of the claim, which was uploaded on Instagram on Saturday, has received nearly 150,000 likes and has been seen more than two million times since publication. It has also been reposted on social media sites such as Twitter. According to video of the proceedings reviewed by The Associated Press,
Kyle Rittenhouse testified in Kenosha County Circuit Court on Nov. 10 that he drove to Kenosha on Aug. 24, 2020, the day before the shooting, to work at his job at the Pleasant Prairie RecPlex in nearby Pleasant Prairie, according to the Associated Press.
After work, he drove his automobile to his friend Dominick Black’s place in Kenosha, where he spent the night before heading back home.
At the centre of the controversy was Rittenhouse, who was accused of using an AR-style semi-automatic weapon to fatally shoot two individuals and critically wound another during a night of protests in Kenosha following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by an unarmed white police officer.
The case was submitted to a jury on Tuesday. The mother of Rittenhouse allegedly “drove him across state lines and dropped him off in the middle of a brawl with an assault rifle” in Kenosha, according to a popular image of the incident.
There is no evidence to suggest that Rittenhouse’s mother transported him to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The evidence shows that Rittenhouse travelled on his own from his Illinois home to Kenosha, and that he obtained the gun he used in the shootings, which had been purchased by a friend, from the Kenosha home of the friend’s stepfather, according to the testimony of the witnesses.