Awarding Rittenhouse for practicing self-defense would kinda be against the point of gun rights and self-defense being routine and unquestionable things.
Having said that, Rittenhouse shouldn't have been charged in the first place as overwhelming evidence was present proving he was innocent there and then, while he was still charged clearly by politically biased scummy DA, so I do believe he should receive an award for being a survivor of a political witch-hunt.