Kyle Rittenhouse pleads not guilty in Kenosha riot shootings

Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty by reason of self-defense of the following crimes:

• Attempted first-degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon.
• First-degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon.
• First-degree reckless homicide with a dangerous weapon.
• First-degree recklessly endangering safety with a dangerous weapon (two separate counts).

His defense team released a video of the night in question to prove his claims of self-defense.

Rittenhouse has also been charged with the misdemeanor crimes of possessing a dangerous weapon while being a minor and of violating the curfew in effect in Kenosha at that time.

Prosecutors allege that he wasn't acting in self-defense when he shot Anthony Huber, Joseph Rosenbaum and Gaige Grosskreutz. Huber and Rosenbaum were killed, Grosskreutz was injured.

Rittenhouse paid an astonishing $2 million bail, which was funded by people within his community, and others outside of it who consider him to be a hero. This was despite problems with crowdfunding due to alleged biases on their part.

Rittenhouse could possibly be facing a sentence as high as life in prison if convicted of all of these crimes.