‘I Was Just 15 Feet Away From a Murder’

An interview with the journalist who filmed Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shooting two protesters

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
Published in
13 min readSep 9, 2020

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Protestors fighting in Kenosha. Photo illustration; image source: Kerem Yucel/Getty Images

It was the third night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, and 23-year-old Brendan Gutenschwager had stuck around to film what protesters were doing after curfew, even as many more seasoned…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/