“I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement,” the 18-year-old told Tucker Carlson in a Monday interview, with a Fox Nation doc on the way.
“This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense,” Rittenhousein a clip released in advance. “I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement. I support peacefully demonstrating.”
Rittenhouse went on to say that he believes “there needs to be change” in America’s criminal justice system: “I believe there’s a lot of prosecutorial misconduct, not just in my case but in other cases. It’s just amazing to see how much a prosecutor can take advantage of somebody.” He alsothe mental state he was in after the shooting, saying, “I [told] everybody there what happened. I said I had to do it. I was just attacked. I was dizzy. I was vomiting. I couldn’t breathe.
Rittenhouse’s conversation with Carlson, especially his stated support of Black Lives Matter, has been viewed by some as a calculated P.R. strategy. Former Newsmax hostthat he had “no problem with Rittenhouse’s BLM comment. The kid is trying to avoid both violent backlash to himself and his family, as well as a weaponized biased DOJ investigation. From a crisis comms perspective, it was a smart move.
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