By Alice Yin, Paige Fry
chicagotribune.com
November 22, 2021
Callies Newman, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Illinois Chicago, said she cried after hearing about Rittenhouse’s acquittal. Newman attended Saturday’s rally with her friend because she felt it was important for young people like her to condemn what she said was a double standard applied to Rittenhouse compared to Black people.
“As a Black woman … if it was me in that situation, if I did that, I’d probably be dead right now,” Newman said. “It’s very heartbreaking. Stuff doesn’t really change.”
Others holding signs calling Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, who were fatally shot by Rittenhouse, heroes, chanted: