Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted last week on charges that he murdered two white men and wounded another at the Kenosha, Wisconsin protests last summer.
Since his acquittal, Rittenhouse has already visited former President Donald Trump, who gave him a glowing review, Fox News and several other right-wing outlets and figureheads.
He is has become somewhat of a Republican poster child. Despite being embraced by the right-wing community, Rittenhouse claimed that he supports the Black Lives Matter movement in a recent interview.
The Kenosha protests were in response to a Black man, Jacob Blake, being shot by a white police officer in the back seven times at close range.
“This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense,” the 18-year-old told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
One of the Black Lives Matter co-founders took issue with Rittenhouse’s remarks (as many of us did.)
“They’re using tools, they are a propaganda machine that’s used to make the nonsensical seem to make sense,” Melina Abdullah told TMZ. “And so they want to make Kyle Rittenhouse both a young hero of white supremacy but also not be a blatant white supremacist. He’s declaring this support for Black Lives Matter… We see all over his social media him throwing up white supremacist signs and people know what it is.”
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