Kyle Rittenhouse police cadet, Alleged Kenosha Shooter Fervently Supported

 Kyle Rittenhouse police cadet, Alleged Kenosha Shooter Fervently Supported.

Despite wearing a full replica police uniform — complete with tie, bomber jacket and trooper hat — Kyle Rittenhouse looked a lot more like a Halloween trick-or-treater than an actual cop in the photo taken in 2017.

After all, Kyle was not even 15 years old when he posed for the picture that remained for years on the Facebook page of a “public safety cadet program” in Chicago’s far northern suburbs.

And he still looked younger than his actual age this week when the now-17-year-old from Antioch was arrested in connection with two fatal shootings in Kenosha late Tuesday.

Police in Wisconsin said two people were killed and another was injured in the shootings in the southeast Wisconsin town during the third night of civil unrest sparked by a white officer shooting a Black man repeatedly in the back.

Antioch police took Rittenhouse into custody Wednesday, and he is being held in Lake County’s Hulse Juvenile Detention Center in Vernon Hills without bond, according to court records.

He is wanted in Kenosha County for first-degree intentional homicide after having “fled the state of Wisconsin with the intent to avoid prosecution for that offense.”

A lawyer for the Lake County public defender’s office, which is listed as representing Kyle, declined to comment.

In addition to his participation as a youth police cadet in Lake County, his social-media posts showed Rittenhouse was a staunch law-enforcement supporter who had posted tributes to officers killed in the line of duty in Chicago and the northern suburbs.

Another social-media account that appeared to belong to Rittenhouse suggests he was also a supporter of President Donald Trump. The TikTok account, with just 25 followers, read, “Trump 2020” with a U.S. flag next to it, and he also wrote, “Bruh I’m just tryna be famous.”

And in one video recorded in Kenosha before the shootings, a teen who identifies himself as Kyle explained that he went to the center of the city on Tuesday evening with the intention of assisting the police in dealing with the rioters.