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Instead of narcotics, however, agents heard Fort and others talking about Libya, which at the time was engaged in an armed conflict with U.S. forces over the country’s terrorist ties. A federal terrorism task force was called in to set up a sting to try to catch El Rukn members attempting to buy rockets and explosives, according to trial testimony.

Northwestern University PhD students Blaine Rothrock, left, and Alexander Curtiss at their lab inside the Technological Institute with a prototype of their FaceBit on Jan. 20, 2022, in Evanston. The two doctoral students developed the device, placed inside a face mask with a magnet, which monitors respiration, heart rate and the mask’s fit on a face. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Law enforcement has had the gun since the day after Rittenhouse shot three men, two of them fatally, on Aug. 25, 2020, during a night of protests and unrest in the southeastern Wisconsin city of Kenosha over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer.