Now that Kyle Rittenhouse has officially been found not guilty of murder after shooting two men to death on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, he’s begun hitting the right-wing press circuit that spent the past year placing this now-18-year-old killer on the same pedestal as George Zimmerman, the McCloskeys, and other vigilante gunmen.
It should be little surprise, then, that Rittenhouse would kick off his post-trial media tour with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, who once praised Rittenhouse’s decision to bring and use his long rifle to the social justice protests that followed the police assault on Jacob Blake, a Black man, last summer as a decision “to maintain order when no one else would.” The full interview doesn’t air until Monday evening, but Carlson has already begun teasing what is likely to be one of the most controversial moments of the conversation, in which Rittenhouse insists that he is not only not a racist, but that he actively supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
