Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, defended Kyle Rittenhouse – the 17-year-old charged in the shooting deaths of two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin – as 'a little boy out there trying to protect his community.'
Bondi told FOX News' Hannity how that prosecutors have been too hasty to charge Rittenhouse, who had come to Kenosha armed with an assault-style rifle during demonstrations against police brutality.
"You've got a little boy out there trying to protect his community," she said."Should he have been out there with a gun? No. But should he have been charged with murder? We just don't know yet."and his prosecution has become a rallying cry for pro-gun groups who emphasize the constitutional right to bear arms.
Critics on social media accused her of having a double standard when it came to another 17-year-old: Trayvon Martin,
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