[ti:US Jury Finds Teen Not Guilty of Murder] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]An American teenager on trial for murder in Wisconsin [00:05.08]was found not guilty Friday of all charges [00:09.12]related to the shooting deaths of two men [00:12.88]and the wounding of another. [00:16.04]Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum [00:20.76]and Anthony Huber and injured Gaige Grosskreutz [00:26.08]on August 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. [00:31.88]Rittenhouse shot the men with a semi-automatic weapon. [00:36.52]The shootings took place during street protests [00:40.56]and property destruction over police violence [00:44.68]against Black people in the summer of 2020. [00:49.12]The teenager is white. [00:51.32]Those he shot also were white. [00:55.52]A jury of 12 men and women [00:58.20]found Rittenhouse not guilty of five charges [01:02.60]including homicide, or murder, [01:05.68]attempted homicide and reckless endangering. [01:11.04]Government lawyers told the jury that Rittenhouse [01:15.24]had gone looking for trouble that night. [01:18.52]They said he had created a dangerous situation [01:22.72]by pointing his weapon at protestors. [01:25.96]And, they noted that he showed no remorse over the killings. [01:33.08]The defense said that Rittenhouse had been repeatedly attacked [01:38.24]and had shot the men in fear for his life. [01:41.96]They said he had been in Kenosha [01:45.48]to protect private property after several nights of unrest [01:50.64]in the town south of the city of Milwaukee. [01:55.92]The unrest followed the police shooting of a Black man [02:00.12]named Jacob Blake. [02:03.56]Rittenhouse said, "I did what I had to do [02:07.28]to stop the person who was attacking me.” [02:10.96]Some of the videos shot by people in the area [02:15.32]appeared to support his claim of self-defense. [02:20.24]Wisconsin law says a person can use deadly force [02:25.60]to defend himself if he “reasonably believes [02:30.08]that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death [02:35.00]or great bodily harm to himself or herself.” [02:41.56]After the decision, the parents of Huber [02:45.08]who was shot and killed, Karen Bloom and John Huber [02:49.72]spoke to the press. [02:51.76]They said the outcome “sends the unacceptable message [02:56.32]that armed civilians can show up in any town, [03:00.40]incite violence, and then use the danger they have created [03:05.60]to justify shooting people in the street.” [03:10.68]Rittenhouse was 17 when the events took place in Kenosha. [03:16.68]His home is in nearby Antioch, Illinois. [03:20.88]The case was one of three trials in the United States [03:25.80]that showed the division over race in the country. [03:30.96]In the American state of Georgia, [03:33.48]three white men are on trial [03:36.44]in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man. [03:41.08]And a trial is taking place in Virginia [03:45.20]over the deadly gathering of white supremacists [03:49.84]in Charlottesville in 2017. [03:54.20]Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, [03:58.44]who is Black and a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, [04:03.76]denounced the outcome of the Rittenhouse trial. [04:08.60]She said, “We have seen so many black and brown youth killed, [04:14.32]only to be put on trial posthumously, [04:18.44]while the innocence of Kyle Rittenhouse [04:22.08]was virtually demanded by the judge.” [04:26.20]Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, [04:29.84]a Republican, praised the verdict. [04:33.16]He wrote on Twitter, “All of us who knew what [04:37.36]actually happened in Kenosha last year [04:40.76]assumed this would be the verdict. [04:43.60]Thankfully, the jury thought the same.” [04:48.84]Meanwhile, Democratic Governor Tony Evers called for calm. [04:54.20]Last week, he announced that 500 National Guard members [04:59.96]stood ready in case of trouble after the verdict. [05:07.24]I’m Mario Ritter, Jr. [05:09.64]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM