Rittenhouse said he went there to protect property after two nights in which rioters set fires and ransacked businesses.ĭuring opening statements Tuesday, prosecutors portrayed him as the instigator who set in the motion the night of 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 and hit him in the head with a skateboard. The teenager traveled to Kenosha from his home in Illinois after protests broke out over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer. Rittenhouse, a one-time police youth cadet, could get life in prison if convicted. in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Rittenhouse, now 18, is charged with killing two men and wounding a third during the summer of 2020 in a politically polarizing case that has stirred furious debate over self-defense, vigilantism, the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and the racial unrest around the U.S. Washington, who was on a skateboard, said when he heard the shots, he “skated away to safety.”
Shortly afterward, the video captures the sounds of gunshots, including those of Rittenhouse shooting Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man killed that night. And he had his gloves on, and he was smoking cigarettes and stuff.” “He just looked young to me,” Washington said. Washington said he followed Rittenhouse because he saw him earlier that evening and thought he seemed like an “interesting figure.” In one of the bystander videos livestreamed that night by Koerri Washington, a social media influencer from Kenosha, Rittenhouse can be seen running through the frame, carrying a fire extinguisher.
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