From the courtroom to cable television, Kyle Rittenhouse won’t be far from the camera for long.
18 years old, acquitted on Friday of all five counts after shooting three men, who died at a racial justice rally last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will give an exclusive interview to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, the network announced.
Part of the talk will air on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” at 7 p.m. ET Monday. The full interview will air as part of a documentary about Tucker Carlson Originals on FOX Nation in December. The documentary will also feature behind-the-scenes footage of Rittenhouse and his security team approaching Rittenhouse and his security team. email from a spokesperson for Fox News Media.
In the sixth courtroom, Rittenhouse collapsed and fell on a chair after acquittal and did not speak to any reporters. His lead defense attorney, Mark Richards, told reporters that Rittenhouse was on his way home “to get on with his life.”
A key piece of evidence in the trial surfaced last year on Carlson’s cable news that showed when Rittenhouse’s original defense attorney John Pierce, who was fired earlier this year, shared a video by drone in high resolution.
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Assistant District Attorney James Kraus said both parties have been trying unsuccessfully for months to get the original video from the drone from the owner of the company that shot the footage. A former employee dropped it off with a detective on November 5.
The state used it as evidence, hoping to show Rittenhouse as an aggressor and provoked Joseph Rosenbaum by pointing his AR-15-style rifle at a couple who had been with Rosenbaum for several nights. Rosenbaum was then shot four times and killed by Rittenhouse.
The defense was concerned about the drone video, which resulted in a motion for a person confused.
While the jury debated, Judge Bruce Schroeder allowed the jury to see any video requested – the drone video, despite the defense’s objections.
