Students and parents complained after a Dallas high school's class assignment placed the accused Kenosha shooter on a list of 'modern heroes'

• Students and parents were upset when the suspected Kenosha shooter was on a list of "modern heroes" that they could choose to defend as part of a Dallas high school's class assignment, CNN reported.

• Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide and a string of other felonies tied to the killing of two people at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

• Joseph Rosenbaum, who was shot and killed in Kenosha, was also on that list.

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Students and parents complained after a Dallas high school's class assignment placed the suspected Kenosha shooter on a list of "modern heroes" that they could choose to defend, CNN reported.

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide and a string of other felonies tied to the killing of two people at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He was suggested as a "hero for the modern age" along with others like Malcolm X, George Floyd, Mahatma Ghandi, and even Joseph Rosenbaum, a man who was shot and killed in Kenosha, NBC reported.

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KTVT, which reviewed a photo of the assignment, reported that the names of Gandhi and Malcolm X were misspelled.