The defense has said that that shot made Rittenhouse think he was under attack. Yet another video captured the sound of a single gunshot, which authorities said was fired into the air by someone in the crowd other than Rittenhouse. Other video played for the jury showed Rittenhouse saying before the shootings that he was there to protect property and provide medical care to anyone who was hurt.Īn interviewer mentioned non-lethal weapons and Rittenhouse responded: “We don’t have non-lethal.” The man filming the video then asked if Rittenhouse was “full-on” ready to defend the property and he replied, “Yes, we are.” Rosenbaum is in hiding as my client arrives, correct?” The defense attorney, describing how Rosenbaum came out from behind a car to meet Rittenhouse before the shooting, said to the detective: “Correct me if I’m wrong, but this looks like the classic ambush.”Īfter prosecutors objected, Richards said: “Mr. Howard agreed, and said it looked as if Rosenbaum was gaining ground on Rittenhouse. Richards also said that Rittenhouse shouted, “Friendly! Friendly! Friendly!” as he was being chased by Rosenbaum. “It can be used against them as a deadly and dangerous weapon, correct?” Richards asked. “No,” replied Howard, who repeated the answer when Binger also asked him whether Rosenbaum carried a knife, bat or club.īut on cross-examination, Rittenhouse attorney Mark Richards asked Howard what can happen if a weapon is taken from someone. “I can only see a plastic bag he’s carrying,” Howard said. Prosecutors have portrayed him as the instigator of the bloodshed, while his lawyer argued that he acted in self-defense after Rosenbaum tried to grab his gun and others in the crowd kicked him in the face and hit him in the head with a skateboard.Ī Kenosha detective who took the stand detailed injuries Rittenhouse suffered that night, all seemingly minor: a half-inch scratch above his eyebrow, a small cut inside his lower lip, a 2-inch scratch below his collarbone, a 2-inch scratch on his forearm, a scratch on his back and two bumps the size of pennies on his head. Rittenhouse said he went there to protect property after two nights in which rioters set fires and ransacked businesses. The young man traveled to Kenosha from his home in Illinois after violent protests broke out over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer. after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other cases like it.
Rittenhouse, now 18, could get life in prison if convicted in the politically polarizing case that has stirred furious debate over self-defense, vigilantism, the right to bear arms, and the racial unrest that erupted around the U.S. Many of the videos played in court were found by police on social media sites, where lots of footage was streamed live or promptly posted after the bloodshed, and many of the scenes were familiar to those following the case. In the courtroom, Rittenhouse - seated in the jurors’ line of sight - kept his eyes fixed on a desktop screen and showed no emotion as video depicted him walking down a street with his rifle and shooting at protesters, people scattering and screaming.
The scenes were part of a wealth of video played in court that captured the chaos and the repeated sound of gunfire on the night the 17-year-old aspiring police officer fired an assault-style rifle during a tumultuous demonstration against police brutality in the summer of 2020. He had a wound to his head, and a bystander placed a shirt on it to apply pressure. He laid him out,” the person making the video can be heard saying.įootage shown to the jury also depicted Rosenbaum lying on the ground as frantic bystanders surrounded him to help. Rosenbaum was the first of three men Rittenhouse shot that night, two of them fatally. Someone is heard yelling “F- you!,” followed by the sounds of the four shots Rittenhouse fired, killing Joseph Rosenbaum, though the shooting itself is not clearly seen on camera.
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(AP) - The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial over a string of shootings on the streets of Kenosha watched one of the central pieces of video evidence Wednesday - footage of a man chasing Rittenhouse and throwing a plastic bag at him just before the man was gunned down.
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