Per Madison (WI) Newspapers, Kyle Rittenhouse won’t be returning to Kenosha County anytime soon as an Illinois judge granted a 30-day delay in his extradition hearing. Rittenhouse, as you may remember, is the young man charged with killing two men and seriously wounding another during a protest in Kenosha, WI, on Tuesday evening. He was seen walking toward police with his hands up, telling them he had shot someone, but was allowed to walk on by and was arrested the next morning in his home town of Antioch, Illinois, by Antioch police, the next day.
For those who want to protest my using his name because he is 17 (and 2 months shy of his 18th birthday), I am doing so because he is charged with a capital crime as an ADULT and I will refer to him as an adult. These are the crimes he is charged with: first degree intentional homicide for the death of 26-year-old Silver Lake resident Anthony Huber, attempted first-degree intentional homicide for the shooting of Gauge Grosskreutz, 26, of West Allis, and first-degree reckless homicide for the death of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, of Kenosha. He is also charged with two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety for shooting his AR-15-style rifle toward other people who were not injured, and with possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. I might add that he brought said weapon across state lines, which is a federal crime, and for which probably the ATF and the FBI will be involved at some point.
But meanwhile, he gets a 30-day delay, and another hearing on Sept. 25 because at this extradition status hearing in Lake County Friday, a public defender representing him asked for an extension to allow him to seek a private attorney--which will probably result in another delay. (Like he didn’t have time to ask his mom to call someone?) And meanwhile he’s being held in a juvenile detention facility? Sounds suspiciously like white boy privilege to me. Because you know darn well that if he were a young man of color, he’d have been hustled right back up to Kenosha and slapped into big boy jail. In fact, he’d never have been allowed to go back to Illinois at all.
