Protests Over the Not Guilty Verdict for Rittenhouse: Taking a Stand in the Streets

November 22, 2021

Protest — Rittenhouse and Whole System Guilty — in Chicago — Rallying in Chicago

Within hours of the acquittal of the fascist vigilante killer Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges on Friday, November 19, people in cities across the country began taking to the streets in outrage and anger. That night saw protests in New York, Chicago, Oakland, Los Angeles and Portland, while smaller groups gathered in San Diego and elsewhere.

Saturday and Sunday saw demonstrations in many other cities including Boston, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Tampa, FL. and Raleigh, N.C. About 1,000 people marched through downtown Chicago. On Sunday, people gathered in Kenosha’s Civic Center Park to protest the verdict and marched through the streets of Kenosha. Speakers included Justin Blake, the uncle of Jacob Blake shot 7 times in the back by Kenosha police, and the fiancée of JoJo Rosenbaum, the first heroic protester murdered by Rittenhouse.

Kenosha

Chicago

New York City

Brooklyn Bridge, marching into Manhattan from Brooklyn

Blocking the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan

Los Angeles

Oakland

Revcoms were part of these protests spreading a statement that begins: “A system that greenlights the white supremacist vigilante slaughter of people standing up for Black lives is completely illegitimate. It needs to be brought down—overthrown—at the soonest possible time.”

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Boston

Raleigh, North Carolina

Honolulu

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!

NOW IS the TIME WHEN WE MUST RISE UP and ACT to STOP the CONSOLIDATION of TRUMP MAGA FASCISM. For the lives of people here and around the world we must refuse unlawful and inhumane orders… we must fill the streets and town squares in non-violent protest—not stopping until we become millions — not relenting until this regime is no longer able to implement its program or maintain its hold on power.

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