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Jurors found Rittenhouse, 18, not guilty of homicide for killing
two men and attempted homicide for wounding a third man.
Rittenhouse claimed self defense.
The protests in Kenosha were in response the police shooting of
Black man Jacob Blake.
Kerr, who is one of the NBA's leading voices on social issues,
said he was not surprised by the verdict but was concerned about
its implications.
"We are seemingly all right with a teenager's right to take an
AR-15 to an area where there is civil unrest. That's really
scary and concerning," he told reporters ahead of the Warriors
matchup against the Detroit Pistons on Friday.
The verdict "poses great risk going forward if we continue to go
down this path of open carry and states determining that people,
even underage people, can have weapons of war," he added.
"This is America, and we're treading down a dangerous path."
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Cynthia
Osterman)
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