The case surrounding the double murder suspect is described as part of 'the central story of our time — the culture wars.'
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger has suggested that Rittenhouse didn't travel 20 miles across state lines to attend the BLM protests in order to protect the city, but instead was a"chaos tourist" and"teenage vigilante" who came to Kenosha looking for trouble.
Others have argued the shooting was the culmination of political division in the country following months of Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the murder of"It's another battle in what has become the central story of our time — the culture wars," John Baick, who teaches modern American history at Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts, told the Associated Press.
"We have to link in January 6," he said."We have to link in military groups across the country, anti-mask protests, school board protests. Whether it's Kenosha, or Minneapolis, or the entire state of Florida, these debates over the role of government, the role of law and order — these are deeply unsettled in America right now in a way they haven't been since the 1960s.
"To say that Kyle is a white supremacist and militia member who was responsible for the violence in Kenosha is a lie. That lie prejudices Kyle's constitutional right to a fair trial and damages his reputation," Wood, who later became an influential figure in the QAnon conspiracy theory movement and pusher of the view that Trump won the last election, previously told