Outrage Spreads After Kyle Rittenhouse Found Not Guilty

On Friday, November 19, 2021, Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of all charges.

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Rittenhouse, 18, had been accused of killing two people and injuring a third.

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He was charged with five felonies, but acquitted on all charges.

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A jury reached a not guilty verdict after a 25 hour deliberation.

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Many took to Twitter to express their outrage.

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#Disgusted started trending in minutes, along with #WhiteSupremacy and #ThePurge.

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#Disappointed started trending soon afterwards.

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The NAACP and Black Lives Matter were some of the first to start spreading the #WhiteSupremacy hashtag.

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They tweeted: “Today that [justice] system has failed us, right on schedule.”

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