Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict – live: Protests ramp up outside court …

ICYMI: A defence lawyer angrily accused the prosecution at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial of lying. The rule prosecutor hit a measured tone, already as he raised the accused’s rifle at one point and sighted at a courtroom wall.

How the indignation and theatrics during Monday’s closing arguments played with jurors won’t be clear until 12 of them return with verdicts in a case that underscores American divisions on issues of guns, protests and policing.

The Associated Press looks at how some five hours of closings went and which side may have made the stronger argument to jurors:

ICYMI: A jury is deliberating on the verdict in the double homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men and injured another in the aftermath of protests against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year, and will consider a range of charges against him.

Throughout the two-week trial, jurors reviewed more than a dozen pieces of video, including livestreams from that night, an interview Mr Rittenhouse gave moments before he fired his gun, body camera footage, and aerial video from the FBI.

Alex Woodward has the story.

The rally against injustice that took place that night was organised in solidarity with a local Black man, Jacob Blake, who had been shot and left paralysed by a white police officer two days earlier following a confrontation after his SUV was stopped.

ICYMI: Attorneys for Kyle Kyle Rittenhouse criticised the prosecution’s “rush to judgment” to press homicide charges in the aftermath of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, as the teenager’s defence team delivered closing arguments in the closely watched trial.

Mark Richards dismissed prosecutors’ argument that Mr Rittenhouse – who was 17 years old when he fatally shot two men and injured another with an AR-15-style rifle as protests against police violence distributed on 25 August 2020 – had provoked the shootings, after Assistant District Attorney Mark Binger described the shooter as a “chaos tourist” who inserted himself into a volatile scene that night.

Alex Woodward has the story.

estimate Schroeder retired the jury at around 5.45pm CT, after a complete first day of deliberations.

They have been told to report back to the courthouse on Wednesday morning to begin again deliberations at 9am.

estimate Schroeder had asked the jury if they wanted to continue working into the evening or come back and start again on Wednesday morning.

estimate Schroeder killed time by playing Jeopardy! with people in the courtroom as the jury in the case continues its deliberations.

estimate Bruce Schroeder will ask jurors at 5pm CT to see if they want to keep going in their deliberations this evening, or go home for the night, according to Fox News.

The jury, which consists of seven women and five men, began their deliberations at around 9.30am.

The Independent’s Megan Sheets looks back at the stand-out moments from the trial:

David Axelrod accused estimate Schroeder of being a “de facto defence attorney” on Monday.

The former chief adviser to President Barack Obama made the comment on Twitter after estimate Schroeder dismissed a misdemeanour gun charge against Mr Rittenhouse.

“This kid has the great good fortune of a de facto defense attorney on the bench,” he tweeted.

In a later post, he additional: “jibe with the Wisconsin state motto, the estimate’s message to gun-toting vigilantes: Forward!”