The judge in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse dismissed a juror because he told a joke about the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man whose shooting by a police officer had sparked protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin at the heart of the trial
"The public needs to be confident that this is a fair trial," Kenosha County Circuit Judge BruceSchroeder told the juror, a white man who declined to repeat the joke he told to a sheriff's deputy outside the courtroom earlier in the week.Sign up for The Daily Docket
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