Before Rittenhouse’s case, he was being propped up as a patriot. In death, racists went to great lengths to portray Trayvon Martin as a thug. — Trial judge Bruce Schroeder recently ruled that the people Kyle Rittenhouse killed, who’d normally be called victims, cannot be called victims during Rittenhouse’s criminal trial. Scroeder will, however, allow lawyers to refer to the deceased as “looters”, “rioters” or “arsonists”.