Kyle Rittenhouse — Pro-Choice Advocate

Larry Benjamin
3 min readNov 20, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse’s recent acquittal in the deaths of two protesters and the wounding of another is being lauded as a conservative victory. Rittenhouse, 17 years old at the time, traveled from his home state of Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin, had an adult purchase an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle for him, and attended a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in 2020. Rittenhouse claimed he was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed James Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and wounded Gaige Grosskruetz.

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Larry Benjamin

Grew up in Los Angeles, BA in English Literature from UCLA, Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, 30 year career in labor law enforcement