Kyle Rittenhouse LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky congressman said a teenager charged with fatally shooting two people with a semi-automatic rifle during the unrest in Wisconsin showed “incredible restraint" and acted in self-defense.Rep.
Thomas Massie also told a radio interviewer on Thursday that if he were on the jury, he would vote to acquit the teenager if the evidence was based on video he had seen of the melee.Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican, defended the Illinois teen, Kyle Rittenhouse.
The congressman said he knew more about the 17-year-old's case than he did about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an incident that had sparked the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.Massie’s Democratic challenger in the November election,.