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Posted: 2021-01-14T12:58:06Z | Updated: 2021-01-14T19:11:36Z

Photos appear to show accused Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooter Kyle Rittenhouse posing with members of the Proud Boys neo-fascist gang and flashing the white power OK sign at a bar this month while he was free on bail. (See the images in the news segment above.)

Rittenhouse, 18, visited Pudgys Pub in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, with his mother on Jan. 5 the day he pleaded not guilty to first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting deaths of two men at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha last summer, according to prosecutors. The DA now wants to tighten the teens bail conditions.

In his 90 minutes at the bar, Rittenhouse was loudly serenaded by his hate group admirers with Proud of Your Boy, an Aladdin song co-opted by the gang as its anthem, WTMJ in Milwaukee reported .

After viewing the surveillance footage, the Kenosha County District Attorneys Office requested additional restrictions to Rittenhouses $2 million bail, according to CNN. They include prohibiting him from making white supremacy signs, having contact with members of white supremacist groups such as the Proud Boys, and drinking alcohol. (He was legally consuming beer at the bar because his mother was there, according to Wisconsin law.)

The defendants continued association with members of a group that prides itself on violence, and the use of their symbols, raises the significant possibility of future harm, prosecutors wrote, per WTMJ. Further, this association may serve to intimidate potential witnesses, who may be unwilling to testify in this case because they may fear that the defendants associates with harm them or their families.

Defense attorney Mark Richards did not object to bail restrictions on hate groups or drinking in a response filed Thursday. However, he said there is no information linking Rittenhouse to the Proud Boys or any white supremacist group, the Kenosha News reported .

The states bond motion is a not-so-thinly veiled attempt to interject the issue of race into a case that is about a persons right to self defense, the lawyer said.

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Rittenhouse joined militia members and others in taking up arms during the Kenosha protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Defense lawyers claim Rittenhouse shot two demonstrators to death and wounded a third in self-defense.

His arrest has turned him into a symbol for the far-right, and he has received support from actor Ricky Schroder .

This article has been updated to include a response from Rittenhouses attorney.