From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.

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Last summer, as the country reeled from the murder of George Floyd, another black man,

Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, prompting protesters to take to the streets.

My colleague, Julie Bosma, was covering those protests.

There were these groups of white men in militia gear and describing them on the daily.

They were confronting the people in the crowd as they turned violent.

It felt like the situation was a little out of control, so I decided to get in my car and leave.

Moments after Julie left the scene, a young white man would shoot and kill two people and name a third.

You see the man running down the street. This is after he allegedly shot someone in the stomach out of gas station immediately.

That shooter, Kyle Rittenhouse, became a symbol of the moment, called a terrorist by the left and a patriot by the right.

Now, he's on trial for those shootings, and Julie is back in Kenosha to tell the story of who Rittenhouse really is and what his trial will ultimately be about.

It's Friday, November 5th.

So Julie, we spoke to you last summer, hours after this shooting happened in your hometown of Kenosha.

And now a year later, you're back there covering the trial of the alleged shooter.

So tell us about where things stand.

This is the week that the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is underway in Kenosha.

Kyle Rittenhouse is now 18 years old.

He was 17 at the time of the shootings. He stands trial for six criminal counts, including first degree intentional homicide, which is the most serious murder charge in Wisconsin.

And his trial is taking place at the courthouse in downtown Kenosha, which was the scene of so many protests in August 2020.

And we are just several blocks away from the place where these shootings took place on the night of August 25th, 2020.

And that next day after the shooting, when we first talked to you, you had told us that law enforcement didn't yet know much about this teenage shooter.

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