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Tuesday 3 November 2020
Bail set at $2m for teen accused in Wisconsin shootings

By TODD RICHMOND including the president.
Associated Press How dare he." President
Bail was set at $2 million on Donald Trump has said Rit-
Monday for a 17-year-old tenhouse's actions might
from Illinois accused of kill- have been warranted, sug-
ing two men and wound- gesting that the protesters
ing a third during an August might have killed him.
protest in Kenosha, after Richards tried to object to
the father of one of the vic- Huber's remarks, but Keat-
tims told the court the de- ing cut him off.
fendant "thinks he's above Grosskreutz's attorney, Kim-
the law" and would be a berley Motley, asked for $4
flight risk if freed before trial. million bail, calling Ritten-
Kyle Rittenhouse, of An- house's behavior "inexcus-
tioch, Illinois, is charged able."
with fatally shooting Joseph Keating set bail at $2 mil-
Rosenbaum and Anthony lion, saying Rittenhouse has
Huber during a protest no ties to Kenosha, he fled
over a police shooting in the state after the shootings
August. He is also charged and he faces life in prison if
with wounding a third man, In this screen grab from video Kyle Rittenhosue appears during his initial court appearance in convicted. He ordered Rit-
Gaige Grosskreutz. Kenosha, Wis.,on Monday Nov. 2, 2020. tenhouse not to have any
Rittenhouse turned himself Associated Press contact with the victims'
in to police in Antioch the that Rittenhouse had fired Rittenhouse faces life in groups would gladly hide families or to possess any
morning after the Aug. 25 in self-defense. prison if convicted of the him from police, Huber al- weapons if he's released.
shootings. He was extradit- Richards also argued that homicide charges, which leged. "Kyle Rittenhouse Rittenhouse attended the
ed to Wisconsin on Friday Rittenhouse tried to turn makes him a flight risk. thinks he's above the law," hearing via a video feed
and made his initial court himself in seconds after the "The defendant doesn't Huber said. "He's been from jail and was wear-
appearance in Kenosha shootings but officers ig- want to be here and if re- treated as much by law en- ing an orange mask and a
County on Monday after- nored him. Video showed leased won't come back," forcement. For him to run dark blue jail jumpsuit. He
noon. In addition to the Rittenhouse walk past po- Binger said. wouldn't surprise me." spoke only to say that he
homicide charges, Ritten- lice vehicles with an as- Keating allowed Huber's fa- Huber's son hit Rittenhouse understood the conditions
house faces counts of at- sault-style weapon slung ther, John Huber, to speak with a skateboard before of his release.
tempted homicide, reck- over his shoulder and his during the video hearing. Rittenhouse shot him, but The shootings happened
less endangerment and hands in the air. No one He asked the commissioner was he only trying to stop two days after a white
being a minor in possession stopped him even though to set bail between $4 mil- Rittenhouse, the father police officer trying to ar-
of a firearm. protesters could be heard lion and $10 million. He said said. "Self-defense, that's rest Jacob Blake shot the
His attorney, Mark Richards, screaming that he had just that Rittenhouse has be- impossible," he said, grow- 29-year-old Black man sev-
asked Court Commissioner shot people. Police later come a rallying symbol for ing more agitated as he en times in the back, para-
Loren Keating to set bail at explained that they didn't conservatives upset by the spoke. "He had already lyzing him from the waist
$750,000 and place Ritten- arrest him at the scene be- destruction of property dur- killed a guy and tried to down. Video of the shoot-
house on electronic moni- cause it was chaotic. ing protests this year over run. My son was a hero. He ing sparked several nights
toring, arguing that the Assistant District Attorney police brutality. People tried to stop him. He was of protests in Kenosha, a
protesters had attacked Thomas Binger asked for have been raising money a hero. Anyone who says city of about 100,000 on the
the teen that night and $2 million bond, noting that for Rittenhouse and militia otherwise is dead wrong, Wisconsin-Illinois border.q

Principal in Holocaust controversy fired again in Florida

Associated Press firing and an administrative McQuinn said as the meet- to return messages from Latson replied, "Not every-
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) law judge ruled in August ing began. "What Dr. Lat- school district officials in the one believes the Holocaust
— A Florida high school that the school board had son did was open the door days after his comments happened." He added,
principal was fired again on gone too far in firing him. for the students whose par- made international news. "You have your thoughts,
Monday over a comment That prompted the school ents are Holocaust deniers Latson was reassigned from but we are a public school
he made to a student's par- board's 4-3 vote to rein- for generations to come the Boca Raton school to a and not all of our parents
ent last year regarding the state him last month. to deny the atrocity of the district office job because have the same beliefs."q
Holocaust. On Monday, the board re- Holocaust." The Germans of the outcry over his email
The Palm Beach County versed course and voted under Nazi rule killed 6 mil- to a mother who inquired
School Board's vote on 7-0 to fire Latson following lion Jews during the Holo- whether the school's stu-
Monday morning reversed outrage in the Jewish com- caust. The Nazis also exter- dents study the Holocaust.
an earlier decision to re- munity, the Palm Beach minated another 5 million Latson, who had been
instate Spanish River High Post reported. people during World War II, at Spanish River for eight
School Principal William A formal rejection of the including Slavs; Roma, also years, replied to the mother
Latson. Latson was fired in recommendation to re- known as Gypsies; gays that as an educator his job
October 2019 after spark- hire Latson is expected to and people with disabilities. was to be "politically neu-
ing outrage when he told come via a "final order" in a The board initially agreed tral."
a parent he "can't say the separate vote Nov. 10, the to fire last year Latson on The mother, thinking Lat-
Holocaust is a factual, his- newspaper reported. ground of ethical miscon- son had expressed himself
torical event" because he "I am so at peace that I am duct and failure to carry poorly, wrote back, saying,
wasn't in a position to do going to rescind my vote out his job responsibilities. "The Holocaust is a factual,
so "as a school district em- from the Oct. 7 meeting," The official justification for historical event. It is not a
ployee." He appealed his board member Barbara his termination was failure right or belief."