{"id":1035927,"date":"2021-11-20T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1035927"},"modified":"2021-11-20T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:44:16","slug":"self-defense-is-not-illegalwe-made-it-through-the-hard-part-rittenhouse-speaks-after-not-guilty-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-defense-is-not-illegalwe-made-it-through-the-hard-part-rittenhouse-speaks-after-not-guilty-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Self-Defense Is Not Illegal\u2026We Made It Through The Hard Part\u2019: Rittenhouse Speaks After Not Guilty Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fself-defense-is-not-illegalwe-made-it-through-the-hard-part-rittenhouse-speaks-after-not-guilty-verdict%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1035927&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cSelf-defense is not illegal,\u201d 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse asserted Friday after he was acquitted on all charges against him related to a deadly riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager, appearing in a teaser clip for a documentary from Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson, can be seen in the back of a vehicle speaking to a cameraman following the reading of his not guilty verdict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jury reached the right verdict,\u201d he said. \u201cSelf-defense is not illegal, and I believe they came to the correct verdict, and I\u2019m glad that everything went well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a rough journey, but we made it through it,\u201d Rittenhouse added. \u201cWe made it through the hard part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The special follows the teenager through the last year after he fatally shot two rioters and injured a third while defending himself against attackers during a Black Lives Matter protest that devolved into a riot. The teen was facing life in prison with no chance at parole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the stuff that keeps you up at night, like once you do get to sleep, your dreams are about what happened and you\u2019re waking up in a dark cold sweat,\u201d the teenager revealed to Carlson\u2019s crew.<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse said he has dreams about the deadly night \u201cevery single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s quite scary actually, because the dreams feel so real. And they\u2019re not the same at all, they\u2019re all different. They\u2019re the different scenarios that run through your heard during the day, like, what <em>could<\/em> have happened,\u201d he detailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m alive, but what could have happened, like what if I wasn\u2019t alive, or what if I did let Mr. Rosenbaum steal my gun? It\u2019s those types of dreams \u2026 almost every outcome is me getting seriously injured or hurt or dead. Those are the dreams I have on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed during the trial by Rittenhouse\u2019s defense attorney Mark Richards that the teenager is in therapy for the PTSD he suffers from, stemming from the night of August 25, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>David Hancock, a spokesman for Kyle Rittenhouse, said Friday that the Rittenhouse family is \u201crelieved\u201d over the not guilty verdict on all counts, but added that there are \u201cno winners\u201d and \u201cnobody is spiking a football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hancock emphasized that Rittenhouse has been \u201cdefamed\u201d over the past year and noted the two who died when Rittenhouse had to defend himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long road, and we believe that this was the right verdict, and we believe that the length of time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSelf-defense is not illegal,\u201d 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse asserted Friday after he was acquitted on all charges against him related to a deadly riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.The teenager, appearing in a teaser clip for a documentary from Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson, can be seen in the back of a vehicle speaking to a cameraman following the reading of his not guilty verdict.\u201cThe jury reached the right verdict,\u201d he said. \u201cSelf-defense is not illegal, and I believe they came to the correct verdict, and I\u2019m glad that everything went well.\u201d\u201cIt\u2019s been a rough journey, but we made it through it,\u201d Rittenhouse added. \u201cWe made it through the hard part.\u201dThe special follows the teenager through the last year after he fatally shot two rioters and injured a third while defending himself against attackers during a Black Lives Matter protest that devolved into a riot. The teen was facing life in prison with no chance at parole.\u201cIt\u2019s the stuff that keeps you up at night, like once you do get to sleep, your dreams are about what happened and you\u2019re waking up in a dark cold sweat,\u201d the teenager revealed to Carlson\u2019s crew.Rittenhouse said he has dreams about the deadly night \u201cevery single day.\u201d\u201cIt\u2019s quite scary actually, because the dreams feel so real. And they\u2019re not the same at all, they\u2019re all different. They\u2019re the different scenarios that run through your heard during the day, like, what could have happened,\u201d he detailed.\u201cI\u2019m alive, but what could have happened, like what if I wasn\u2019t alive, or what if I did let Mr. Rosenbaum steal my gun? It\u2019s those types of dreams \u2026 almost every outcome is me getting seriously injured or hurt or dead. Those are the dreams I have on a daily basis.\u201dIt was revealed during the trial by Rittenhouse\u2019s defense attorney Mark Richards that the teenager is in therapy for the PTSD he suffers from, stemming from the night of August 25, 2020.David Hancock, a spokesman for Kyle Rittenhouse, said Friday that the Rittenhouse family is \u201crelieved\u201d over the not guilty verdict on all counts, but added that there are \u201cno winners\u201d and \u201cnobody is spiking a football.\u201dHancock emphasized that Rittenhouse has been \u201cdefamed\u201d over the past year and noted the two who died when Rittenhouse had to defend himself.\u201cIt\u2019s been a long road, and we believe that this was the right verdict, and we believe that the length of time (the jury was deliberating) was the jury being very careful and reading the instructions and looking over the evidence,\u201d he said.\u201cThere\u2019s no spiking a football,\u201d Hancock continued, \u201ctwo people did lose their lives. There [were] a lot of things that infected this case, like politics, that sent it off the rails really early on. And so, there are no winners.\u201d\u201cKyle, now, gets to live his life as a free young man, an innocent young man, which he is,\u201d the spokesman said. \u201cBut at the end of the day, I think there are no winners.\u201dWATCH:December. Tucker Carlson Originals. Fox Nation. pic.twitter.com\/Pf8xOInARn\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 20, 2021Related:\u00a0Defense Attorney Reveals Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s Next Moves, Career\u00a0GoalRelated:\u00a0\u2018Justice Is Alive\u2019: Social Media Erupts In Reaction To Not Guilty Rittenhouse\u00a0VerdictRelated:\u00a0\u2018No Way\u2019 What He\u2019s \u2018Saying Is True\u2019: Defense Attorney Takes It To Prosecution Over Video\u00a0RevelationThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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