Kyle Rittenhouse protester arrested and fined $768 for anti-racist chalk message
A woman was taken into custody by police and fined $767.50 on Friday night after writing an anti-racist message in chalk on the steps of the
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The woman, who was protesting Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal at the site of his trial, told Milwaukee's Channel 12 that she wrote, "White supremacy is for cowards" in chalk on the courthouse steps.
In another video, posted to Reddit (below), the woman said while she was in the police vehicle, she heard an officer on the phone telling someone that she had written a message "calling us cowards."
"It says 'white supremacists are cowards,'" the woman said. "The officer identified with the message as if he had been called a coward."