Photos: Rittenhouse’s rifle destroyed by Wisconsin crime lab

The Wisconsin State Crime Lab has destroyed the rifle Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three individuals throughout an August 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police taking pictures of Jacob Blake, in line with authorities.

The Kenosha Police Division first informed FOX 6 Milwaukee that the rifle was destroyed on the crime lab on Feb. 25, 2022 — about 4 months after the 19-year-old was acquitted of 5 expenses, together with reckless and intentional murder expenses, in November 2021.

Video footage from the division exhibits officers placing the rifle and its parts by way of a GunBusters firearms pulverizer. Remnants of the destroyed firearm are discarded right into a bucket beneath the machine.

On Jan. 28, Choose Bruce Schroeder authorized an settlement from attorneys to destroy the rifle, and Assistant District Lawyer Thomas Binger mentioned the state would destroy the weapon, the outlet reported.

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Rittenhouse’s lawyer, Mark Richards, filed a movement Jan. 19 asking prosecutors to return Rittenhouse’s rifle, his ammunition, his face masks and different clothes he was sporting the night time of the taking pictures to him. 

Richards and Hancock, a household spokesman, has mentioned Rittenhouse needs the weapon and clothes he wore from that night time destroyed in order that neither can’t be used as an emblem to “have a good time” the shootings that left Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber lifeless and Gaige Grosskreutz wounded. 

The then-18-year-old’s attorneys argued throughout his trial that he was performing in self-defense when he shot Rosenbaum, Huber and Grosskreutz.

The decision sparked debate over gun legal guidelines, self-defense and legal justice. Protests erupted in main cities throughout america following his acquittal. 

Fox Information’ Brie Stimson and The Related Press contributed to this report.