I want to see a black kid shooting a bunch of people and then being called a sweet kid.
Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old who was
acquitted by a Wisconsin jury last Friday of all charges in his fatal shooting of two men, gave his coveted first television interview Monday night to Fox News prime time host Tucker Carlson, who hailed him as “bright, honest, sincere, dutiful and hard-working — exactly the kind of person you’d want many more of in your country.”
Carlson and Rittenhouse established a friendly rapport throughout the conversation, even sharing moments of levity.
“What a sweet kid. I think that comes through loud and clear,” Carlson told Fox News viewers during a break in the interview. “Imagine putting that kid in jail.” Both laughed knowingly after the host made a pointed reference to how Rittenhouse “drove back across state lines, as we’re now calling it,” to turn himself in — a subtle gibe at critics who have emphasized that Rittenhouse ventured armed into the middle of a conflict in a community where he did not live — and bantered about Rittenhouse’s weight gain after leaving jail.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/11/22/kyle-rittenhouse-tucker-carlson-interview/