Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on charges stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest that followed the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer, says in a new interview that he's "not a racist person" and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
"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-defence," the 18-year-old tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview set to air on Monday night (Tuesday morning NZT).
Rittenhouse is white, as were the men he shot.
Rittenhouse was 17 last year when he traveled 32 kilometres from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, which had been racked with protests in the wake of the August 23 shooting of Jacob Blake.