A bill was introduced this week to award a Congressional Gold medal to Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old who was recently found not guilty of murder after he fatally shot two people and injured a third during civil unrest in Wisconsin last summer.
The bill was introduced on Tuesday and it stated that it was to award a Congressional Gold medal to Kyle H. Rittenhouse, who protected the community of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black Lives Matter riot on August 25, 2020.
The Congressional Gold medal is the highest award Congress can give. President George Washington, civil rights activistRosa Parks and Nelson Mandela have been recipients.
The bill is not likely to move given the Democrats' control of the House and Senate.
She attacked her former attorney, Lin Wood, on Monday, in which she claimed that he mistreated Rittenhouse during his brief stint as his lawyer.
The lawmaker said that Lin should go to jail for what he did to Kyle.
Last year, Wood rose to prominence as a pro-Trump lawyer who spread conspiracy theories in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
A jury acquitted Rittenhouse of five charges. He testified that he opened fire in self-defense.
Far-right figures have praised the verdict and rallied around Rittenhouse to celebrate it.
May Kyle and his family live in peace. Good guys help, protect, and defend. Last week, after the verdict was announced, Kyle was one of the good ones.
Several Republican lawmakers, including Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Paul Gosar of Arizona and Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, are interested in having Rittenhouse interns.
Rittenhouse visited Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club. He was described as a "really nice young man" by Trump in an interview.
Some conservatives want President Joe Biden to apologize to Rittenhouse after he was featured in a 2020 campaign video in which Trump refused to condemn white supremacists and militia groups. Rittenhouse accused Biden of defaming him during an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Biden told reporters last week that he stood by what the jury had decided. The jury system works and we have to follow it.
The jury's verdict will leave many Americans angry and concerned, but we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken, according to Biden. I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what we have in common is more important than what we have in common. I know that we're not going to heal our country's wounds overnight, but I will do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law.
