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   From: Simons@localhost.com   
      
   MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials have destroyed the rifle Kyle   
   Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during street protests in Kenosha in   
   2020.   
      
   WISN-TV reported Friday that the state crime lab destroyed the rifle on Feb.   
   25. The station posted video showing technicians unboxing the gun and feeding   
   into a shredder.   
      
   Rittenhouse’s attorneys and prosecutors agreed in January that the gun would   
   be destroyed, Rittenhouse’s lead attorney, Mark Richards, said Rittenhouse   
   didn’t want someone to buy it and turn it into a trophy. The agreement called   
   for the process to be recorded.   
      
   WATCH: How the self-defense argument played out in Rittenhouse, Arbery trials   
      
   Rittenhouse shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded   
   Gaige Grosskreutz during the protests in August 2020. The demonstrations   
   began after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, during a   
   domestic disturbance. The shooting left Blake paralyzed from the waist down.   
      
   Prosecutors filed multiple charges against Rittenhouse. A jury acquitted him   
   on all counts in November after he argued all three men attacked him and he   
   was forced to fire in self-defense.   
      
   Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the protests, too young to buy a firearm in   
   Wisconsin. His friend, Dominick Black, bought the gun for him earlier that   
   year. Black pleaded no contest in January to contributing to the delinquency   
   of a minor.   
      
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