Jury begins deliberating in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial

The shootings took place in Kenosha during protests - marred by arson, rioting and looting - that followed the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed from the waist down

Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people during a protest against police brutality in August 2020. Picture: Mark Hertzberg/Pool Photo via AP

The judge in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse instructed the jury on Tuesday to begin deliberating on the fate of the teenager, who killed two men and wounded a third during racial justice protests last year.

The jury, which numbered 18 through two weeks of testimony, was whittled down to 12 for deliberations.