![]() ![]() In fact, as Assistant District Attorney James Kraus demonstrated in the prosecution’s rebuttal, drone video shows that the man referred to as Jump Kick Man was standing at the edge of the car lot where Rittenhouse shot Rosenbaum when the shots were fired. Then Richards claimed, incorrectly, that there was no evidence that this man “observed or knew about the confrontation between Rosenbaum and Rittenhouse.” In his closing argument for the defense, Richards channeled more than a year of attacks on the characters of those men, by describing each of them as part of a violent mob of rioters who attacked his client.įirst, Richards showed footage of the unidentified Black man who tried to kick Rittenhouse after he killed Rosenbaum close to (but not starting) a dumpster fire earlier in the evening. This praise for the men who tried to stop Rittenhouse before he could kill again contrasted sharply with how they have been vilified in the far-right media, starting just hours after the shootings, as “BLM rioters” guilty of “assault.” ![]() They don’t give up their right to defend themselves.” That doesn’t make them a threat to the defendant’s life. If I see a guy running up the street with an AR-15 and I hear he just shot somebody, my first instinct is not to approach. “And that crowd did something that honestly I’m not sure I would’ve had the courage to do. “That crowd was full of heroes,” the prosecutor added. The crowd knew the defendant had just shot someone.” “When a bank robber robs a bank and runs away and the crowd comes after him, can he just shoot anybody and claim self-defense?” Binger asked. “When you think about the defendant’s behavior in this case, contrast it with Anthony Huber, a man who was there because he knew Jacob Blake, who carried his skateboard everywhere, and who rushed towards danger to save other people’s lives.” “I want you to keep in mind that we’ve all read stories and heard about heroes that step in to stop an active shooter, or to give their life to save others,” Binger told the jury. Those three men were either, as the lead prosecutor in the case, Thomas Binger, argued in his closing, “heroes” who risked their lives to disarm a gunman who had just killed an unarmed man, or, as defense attorney Mark Richards countered, “rioters” who posed an imminent threat to Rittenhouse’s life. The defense dismissed the evidence as digital “hocus pocus, out of focus.” Photo: Sean KrajacicSean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP Prosecutors argue that a still image made from drone video shows that Kyle Rittenhouse illegally aimed his rifle at someone, provoking a reaction from the first man he killed, Joseph Rosenbaum, in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. If the haziness of some key video evidence, and of Wisconsin’s self-defense statute, might make it hard for the jurors to decide whether or not Rittenhouse had the right to use deadly force against Rosenbaum, their task is much more clear-cut when it comes to the subsequent shots Rittenhouse fired that killed Huber, wounded Grosskreutz, and narrowly missed the unnamed protester referred to as “Jump Kick Man.” Guided by 36 pages of dizzying instructions from the judge, the jurors will decide if Rittenhouse bears criminal responsibility for shooting at those four protesters (and endangering the safety of a fifth man, a Daily Caller journalist who was standing behind Rosenbaum) or if the teen had a legal right to self-defense each of the eight times he pulled the trigger. He is accused of endangering the safety of an unidentified protester who tried to kick him, by firing two shots that missed the man, and of the attempted murder of Gaige Grosskreutz, a protest medic whose right arm was torn apart by a shot fired from point-blank range as he advanced on the teen gunman. Rittenhouse faces additional charges for shooting at the other two men who tried to subdue him just over a minute after he fired four full metal jacket bullets into Rosenbaum’s body. ![]() Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, is accused of murdering first Joseph Rosenbaum, a volatile presence at the protest who chased the heavily armed teen for reasons that remain unclear, and then Anthony Huber, one of three protesters who tried to disarm the gunman as he fled the scene. The twelve jurors who will decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate began their deliberations on Tuesday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where the teenage vigilante, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, shot and killed two men, and wounded a third, during a Black Lives Matter protest last year. The jury in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse returned not guilty verdicts on all counts on Friday.
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