The attorney noted that Facebook labeled the Kenosha shootings as a “mass murder” on its platform, a designation that was “factually false.”
Kyle Rittenhouse is planning to sue “10 to 15” separate “large defendants” for defamation, the newest member of his legal team confirmed on Tuesday morning.
Todd McMurtry, the attorney who represented Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann in his $275 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, said he is now representing Rittenhouse, FOX News reported.
“I’ve been hired to head the effort to determine whom to sue, when to sue, where to sue,” McMurtry told the news outlet in a phone interview on Tuesday. “We’re going to look at everything that’s been said, determine which of those comments are legally actionable and proceed from there.”
Rittenhouse was charged with six felony offenses, including first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide and first-degree attempted intentional homicide, after he fired his AR-15 rifle to defend himself during the Kenosha riots on Aug. 25, 2020.
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