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The witness stand. all of us debated beforehand will we see kyle rittenhouse on the wind stand, obviously it worked and do you agree that he had no choice but to do that. >> not as a matter of law, but yes, i think as a matter of strategy, he had no choice. you have to put your client on the stand if you're claiming self-defense. it was interesting to hear the defense say they had two mock juries. we can debate the value of mock juries, but he did much better from the defense standpoint, when they put their client on the stand. kyle rittenhouse, the prosecution did not do much to undermine him...

Carrying ar-15s around. you know, there were so much anger and so much fear in kenosha on august 25th that people did arm themselves. and you know we knew from the beginning that if you read that statute correctly, i know everybody thought i was crazy, but if you read the statute correctly, he was legal in having that firearm. and once the evidence came in, the judge threw the charge. they through the curfew. and those were things that the state wanted to kind of hang their hat on. so they could argue he couldn't be there, he couldn't own the gun. >> what was the first thing that kyle rittenho...

0 18-year-old man. and we've also seen protesters. but not a lot. a number of people who are there with signs, who were perhaps hoping for a different outcome here. but the jurors, they looked at the law, they looked at jury instructions, they reviewed several pieces of evidence as they were deliberating over the course of four days, 25 hours. not guilty on all charges. the end of the kyle rittenhouse trial. the news continues right now with alisyn camerota. hello, everyone, i'm alisyn camerota. welcome to "newsroom." victor is off. we do have breaking news. minutes ago a jury acquitted kyle...

>> reporter: kevin's favorite aunt vicky jones survived cancer but got survive hate. they were targeted because of their skin color. they were blacked, the alleged shooter white. a white witness armed with a gun told his son what the shooter said while fleeing. he said "please don't shoot and i won't shoot you." he said, "white don't kill whites." >> reporter: what do you think about what was said? >> it hurts. it's sad. it's terrible. people have the right to just exist. >> reporter: the suspect, police say, could have caused far more carnage. a parishioner saw them earlier at their church do...

Those the government says was race ethnicity or ancestry. >> she didn't see it coming. >> reporter: kevin dunn's favorite aunt vickie jones had beaten cancer but could not survive hate. 67-year-old jones and 69-year-old mallory stol lard shot dead while grocery shopping targeted because of their skin color police say. they were black, the alleged shooter white. a white witness armed with a gun told his son what the shooter said while fleeing. > he said please don't shoot or i won't shoot you. he said whites don't kill whites. >> reporter: what do you think about what was said? >>. >> it hurts....