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0 a jury of his peers found kyle rittenhouse not guilty on all counts. rittenhouse collapsed in the kenosha, wisconsin courtroom as the final not guilty verdict was read. rittenhouse himself took the stand in his own defense, a risky move that approved successful for the defense. in and out conversation will turn to what's going to happen next. what affect will this case have on things like vigilanteism and self-defense arguments? not to mention what happens immediately in the city of kenosha. joining me from the courthouse in kenosha, wisconsin, nbc correspondent shaquille brewster. former fe...

April 2019, he released a video formally saying he would run for president. the first two words in that video were "charlottesville, virginia." president trump was of course president at the time that charlottesville happened. he famously immediately thereafter said there were fine people on both sides in charlottesville, meaning there were some fine people among the counterprotesters against the nazis that day but also fine people on the nazi side too. recovery christopher miller has been covering the trial every day for buzzfeed news. he wrote this week about how one of the defendants, actua...

Question. that was what happened in virginia today. weird backdrop for electoral politics, weird backdrop for a big election with the eyes of the nation on it. what happened in charlottesville, virginia, in 2017, this far right rally that resulted in one woman being killed, more than a dozen seriously injured, the parading of these neo-nazi groups, the torches, chants about jews, replacement theory and all the rest of it, charlottesville is what president biden said prompted him to run for president in 2020. april 2019, he released a video formally saying he would run for president. the first ...

The complaint. the plaintiffs say, defendants posted imagery of the holocaust, slavery, jim crow, and fascism. they also brought with them armor, shields, and torches. the defendants say those weapons were there to defend themselves against counterprotesters and they say the speech urging violence was not to be taken seriously and was protected by the first amendment. that's what this jury, which was seated over the last three days, is going to decide. opening arguments in this trial begin tomorrow. >> ken, you said the plaintiffs in this want damages. are they putting a specific dollar amount...

White nationalists who organized the rally, saying they planned the attacks on counterprotesters. ken dilanian is outside the courthouse in charlottesville. ken, what can we expect when opening statements get under way tomorrow? >> reporter: geoff, this is a case about the line between speech and violence. and the question of whether people urging violence in social media and internet chat rooms can be held accountable when that violence leads to real world injuries and suffering. some of these plaintiffs who filed this lawsuit were hurt in the clashes that occurred four years ago around this ...