Fox News devot­ed mul­ti­ple seg­ments on Tues­day night to defend­ing accused mur­der­er Kyle Rit­ten­house, describ­ing the 17-year-old charged with shoot­ing sev­er­al Kenosha pro­test­ers as an “all-Amer­i­can” and a “lit­tle boy out there try­ing to pro­tect his community.”Fox News host Tuck­er Carl­son, who jus­ti­fied the shoot­ings ear­li­er this sum­mer, kicked off his pro­gram Tues­day night by air­ing a video detail­ing the August shoot­ings pro­duced by a fundrais­ing group led by Rittenhouse’s attor­ney, L. Lin Wood.The heav­i­ly nar­rat­ed video, which pur­port­ed­ly details Rittenhouse’s actions that night, large­ly uses pre­vi­ous­ly shown footage while por­tray­ing the vic­tims as crim­i­nals, going so far as to show their rap sheets when iden­ti­fy­ing them. Rit­ten­house, mean­while, is described as a life­guard who has devot­ed hun­dreds of hours to com­mu­ni­ty service.The video also tries to sow doubt about whether Rit­ten­house actu­al­ly killed Jason Rosen­baum, the first vic­tim. Acknowl­edg­ing that Rit­ten­house shot four times toward Rosen­baum, the nar­ra­tor notes that oth­er shots were fired in the vicin­i­ty, sug­gest­ing that the shot that killed Rosen­baum could have been fired by some­one else.After show­ing the slick­ly pro­duced clip from Rittenhouse’s defense team, Carl­son turned to pro-Trump Fox News host Judge Jea­nine Pir­ro, who imme­di­ate­ly took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to defend Rittenhouse.“We still don’t know if Kyle did the kill shot, because we can’t get the autop­sy or the bal­lis­tic reports yet,” she said. “But if you move on to the sec­ond shoot­ing, what you real­ize is this kid is not a mass mur­der­er, there were sev­er­al times he could’ve con­tin­ued shoot­ing. Twice he shot in the air, once he turned around and the guy put his hands up, he didn’t shoot him, he kept moving.”After applaud­ing Rittenhouse’s appar­ent restraint in not shoot­ing more pro­test­ers that night, Pir­ro called on the dis­trict attor­ney to drop the charges against Rit­ten­house, say­ing there’s “no shame in exon­er­at­ing a defen­dant if he’s not guilty.”“Kyle Rit­ten­house has been vil­lainized here, and he’s been demo­nized, and I think it should be just the oppo­site,” she con­tin­ued, adding: “This one kid is an inno­cent man, he’s look­ing to help, he’s all-Amer­i­can, and he’s try­ing to just make sure his town is safe.”Notably, Rit­ten­house is not from Kenosha, or even Wis­con­sin. He trav­eled to the Jacob Blake protests that night from Anti­och, Illi­nois, rough­ly 20 miles away.The fol­low­ing hour on Trump con­fi­dant Sean Hannity’s show, for­mer Flori­da Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pam Bondi—who served on Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s impeach­ment defense team—piggybacked on Pirro’s por­tray­al of Rit­ten­house as a clean-cut kid try­ing to make a pos­i­tive difference.After Han­ni­ty played a bit of the video, Bon­di said she was glad Wood was the attor­ney before jus­ti­fy­ing Rittenhouse’s alleged actions, say­ing Kenosha was a “war zone.”“You have got a 17-year-old out there try­ing to pro­tect his state,” she exclaimed. “He is help­ing peo­ple who have been injured. He has para­medic train­ing for being a life­guard. He is tak­ing graf­fi­ti off walls. He is try­ing to mit­i­gate the chaos out there.”Once again, it should be not­ed that Rit­ten­house is not from Wisconsin.The “video speaks vol­umes,” Bon­di said, adding that the vic­tims were crim­i­nals who were “chas­ing him down” before claim­ing that it is “too soon to charge him” with anything.“They charged him two days lat­er and there were bul­lets fly­ing every­where. Oth­er peo­ple were fir­ing,” she said. “This kid was out there try­ing to help peo­ple. Were peo­ple killed? Absolutely.”“We have a lit­tle boy out there try­ing to pro­tect his com­mu­ni­ty,” Bon­di con­tin­ued. “Should he have been out there with a gun? No. But should he have been charged with mur­der? We just don’t know yet and they charged him two days lat­er. So it’s a war zone out there.”The for­mer attor­ney gen­er­al con­clud­ed by seem­ing­ly plac­ing the blame for the shoot­ings on local lead­er­ship, ask­ing, “What’s it com­ing to in these lib­er­al cities when teenagers have to go out there to try to pro­vide aid to oth­er peo­ple who are get­ting injured by these rioters?”Read more at The Dai­ly Beast.Get our top sto­ries in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Mem­ber­ship: Beast Inside goes deep­er on the sto­ries that mat­ter to you. Learn more.