Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict: Arizona university students demand teen be KICKED OUT of school after murder acquittal
ARIZONA State University students are demanding Kyle Rittenhouse be kicked out of the school after he was acquitted in his murder trial.
Several groups have joined the call to remove Rittenhouse from the campus and a protest is being organized for Wednesday.
The Students for Socialism group as ASU posted about the rally , inciting others to "Join us and rally against racist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse being permitted on our campus."
The group, along with the school's Students for Justice in Palestine, Multicultural Solidarity Coalition, and MECHA de ASU groups, have also created a list of demands for the school.
Among those are kicking Rittenhouse out, releasing a statement "against white supremacy & racist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse," reaffirming support for the multicultural center on campus, and redirecting funding from campus police to the multicultural center and "establishment of a CAARE center on campus."
Rittenhouse, who was facing charges for fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020, was found not guilty on all charges earlier this month.
Rittenhouse, 18, was accused of murdering Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as attempting to murder Gaige Grosskreutz.
He was found not guilty after a three-week trial that divided the nation.
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Kenosha was in the midst of several nights of protests after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, who is black, in the back during a domestic disturbance.
The shooting left Blake paralyzed from the waist down.
Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, was seen walking the streets of Wisconsin with an AR-15 weapon in the midst of the protests.
The teenager said he had made the journey to Kenosha as he worked there, his father lived there, and he felt like he was part of the community.
ACQUITTAL DIVIDES THE NATION
His acquittal has led to outrage for many who feel like the move will embolden like-minded vigilantes.
A spokesperson for ASU's Students for Socialism chapter that they are rallying against Rittenhouse for the safety of the campus.
The student said that the Rittenhouse verdict "effectively gives right-winged individuals the license to kill other individuals who protest for human rights."
"Rittenhouse took the lives of innocent people with the intent to do so—by strapping an assault rifle to himself in a crowd of unarmed citizens.
"That is the textbook definition of intention. The decision made by the court is one of the thousands of cases that have been influenced by biased judges, predominantly white juries, and mistakes inherent in a judicial system founded off of injustice, to begin with," the spokesperson said.
