At least one group is planning a protest at Barclays Center starting at 7 p.m. tonight.

Rittenhouse, 18, had been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. The jury deliberated for over 26 hours over the last four days before reaching their verdict on Friday afternoon.

The incident happened in the wake of the police shooting Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, in Kenosha last summer. Protests started after video showing a police officer shooting Blake repeatedly in the back went viral. On August 25th 2020, Rittenhouse, an Illinois resident who was 17 at the time, went to Kenosha with with medical kit and an AR-15-style rifle to join other armed people in the area as protests raged, according to the Guardian.

He said during the trial that he went there to serve as a medic and help protect private property. By the end of the night, he had fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz.

During the trial, Rittenhouse testified that he feared for his life, shooting all three men in self-defense. Although Rosenbaum hadn't touched him and was unarmed at the time (something Rittenhouse was aware of), the teenager said, "He was chasing me, I was alone, he threatened to kill me earlier that night. I didn't want to have to shoot him," Rittenhouse said. "I pointed it at him because he kept running at me and I didn't want him to chase me."

Rittenhouse was then chased by a group of people in the area; Huber apparently hit Rittenhouse with a skateboard after seeing him shoot the other man, and Rittenhouse fatally shot him. Grosskreutz, who was armed at the time, testified that he believed Rittenhouse "was an active shooter" when he confronted him.

Wisconsin’s law on self-defense allows someone to use deadly force only if "necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm," but jurors must determine whether defendants did feel they were in danger and whether the defendants' belief was reasonable at the time.

Prosecutors argued that Rittenhouse forfeited his right to self-defense when he pointed his AR-15-style gun at Rosenbaum, setting off the whole confrontation.

"That is what provokes this entire incident," prosecutor Thomas Binger said. "When the defendant provokes this incident, he loses the right to self-defense. You cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create."