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America was last night braced for violent clashes after a teenager cleared of gunning down two Black Lives Matter protesters appeared to 'brag' about his acquittal.
Kyle Rittenhouse walked free after a predominantly white jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, decided he had been acting in self-defence when he shot dead two men and injured a third during BLM protests last summer.
It emerged yesterday that the 18-year-old has been followed for weeks by a documentary TV crew from Fox News which released 'teaser' footage of the jubilant teen saying: 'The jury reached the correct verdict. Self-defence is not illegal.'
Rittenhouse will appear in a one-hour live TV 'special' on Fox tomorrow. His lawyer Mark Richards said he 'disagreed' with the programme, but that his client 'needed to make money'.
Kyle Rittenhouse walked free after a predominantly white jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, decided he had been acting in self-defence when he shot dead two men and injured a third during BLM protests last summer
Protests about the verdict on Friday were sporadic although the mayor in Portland, Oregon, declared a 'riot' situation when 200 protesters set fire to rubbish bins and chanted they would 'burn down' the city's police department.
The combination of Rittenhouse's TV appearance and the looming end of another controversial trial of three white men who chased down and shot a
