Kyle Rittenhouse called out his former attorneys, Lin Wood and John Pierce, for going against his wishes and keeping him in jail for 87 days.
For about three months, Rittenhouse was detained at a youth detention center. He was released on November 20, 2020, after his attorneys posted a $2 million bail funded mostly by donations from the 18-year-old's supporters, Insider reports.
Rittenhouse was arrested earlier that year after he fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz on August 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during riots that arose after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man.
On Friday, November 19, Rittenhouse was ultimately found not guilty on all five charges in his homicide trial.
Just two days after his release, the teenager sat down with Fox News' Tucker Carlson to talk about the case. In the interview, Rittenhouse criticized his one-time attorneys Wood and Pierce for "disrespecting" his wishes and acting in their own best interests.
Check out what Rittenhouse had to say about his former lawyers below:Rittenhouse said about Wood: "He held me in jail for 87 days, disrespected my wishes, put me on media interviews, which I should never have done."
He went on to say that Wood arranged for him to do an interview with The Washington Post, which he felt was not a good idea in light of the situation.
The young man then told Carlson that the two lawyers said he was "safer in jail instead of at home with [his] family."
He said: "87 days of not being with my family for defending myself and being taking advantage to, being used for a cause by Jon Pierce and Lin Wood trying to raise money so they can take it for their own benefit, not trying to set me free."
Rittenhouse later claimed that Pierce "painted" the "narrative" that he was a militia member.
Elsewhere in his interview with Carlson, he told the conservative news host that the homicide case against him had "nothing to do with race".
"This case has nothing to do with race. It had nothing to do with race, had to do with the right to self-defense."
He then insisted: "I'm not a racist person, I support the BLM movement and peacefully demonstrating."