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Reporting beyond the first headlines

by Chip Scanlan

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Kyle Rittenhouse, with backwards cap, walks through the street demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, 2020, following the August 23 shooting of a Black man by police. Rittenhouse, 17, has been charged with six counts for the shooting deaths of two men and the wounding of another during the demonstrations.

October 14, 2020

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