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Our nation is now trying to process the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teenager who shot and killed two men and wounded another in Kenosha, Wis., last year as people protested the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. The white police officer who shot Blake, who was left partially paralyzed, will not face federal charges.
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