Biden stands by jury acquittal for Kenosha killings

President Joe Biden stated he stood by a jury’s choice to acquit Kyle Rittenhouse of all costs Friday associated to fatally capturing two males and wounding a 3rd throughout protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, final yr.

Biden, who stated he had not watched the trial, final yr in a tweet from his account included Rittenhouse’s picture in a montage of photographs and video to blast then-President Donald Trump for refusing “to disavow white supremacists on the talk stage.”

The shootings by Rittenhouse with an AR-15-style rifle got here throughout civil unrest over the capturing of a black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer, which left Blake paralyzed from the waist down.

When requested in regards to the verdict, Biden advised reporters, “I stand by what the jury has concluded.”

“The jury system works and we’ve got to abide by it,” the president stated.

On Monday, White Home press secretary Jen Psaki refused to reply a query about why Biden urged that Rittenhouse was a white supremacist.

However in her response, Psaki implied that Rittenhouse was a vigilante.

“What I am not going to talk to proper now could be an ongoing trial, nor the president’s previous feedback,” Psaki stated. “What I can reiterate for you is the president’s view that we should not have, broadly talking, vigilantes patrolling our communities with assault weapons.”

“We should not have opportunists corrupting peaceable protests by rioting and burning down the communities they declare to signify,” she stated.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican who represents Wisconsin, in an announcement stated, “I consider justice has been served within the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.”

“I hope everybody can settle for the decision, stay peaceable, and let the group of Kenosha heal and rebuild,” Johnson stated.