Kyle Rittenhouse's defense attorney discusses the trial and acquittal – WXXI News

AILSA CHANG, HOST:Acquitted on all counts – Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty today in Kenosha, Wis. He collapsed onto the defense table in the courtroom as the verdict was read. He was facing life in prison for shooting and killing two men and wounding another during racial justice protests that turned violent in August 2020. Rittenhouse said he went to Kenosha to help as a medic and when he fired the shots from his AR-15-style rifle that he was acting in self-defense. His trial attorney, Mark Richards, is now on the line with us.Welcome.MARK RICHARDS: Good evening.CHANG: Good evening. OK, so what do you think was the most important piece of evidence that helped convince jurors that this was indeed self-defense?RICHARDS: The large amount of video – if it had been just witness statements without any video, the storytellers would have been on the other side. And Kyle would have been vastly outnumbered, and no one would have believed them.CHANG: And describe some of those images that were available in the video.RICHARDS: The first instance, there was probably four different cellphones that were filming. There was a government drone down the street, which was filming. There was an FBI…
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