In short, that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. The prosecution rested its case on November 10. Overall, there has been a sense from commentators and legal experts that this isn’t going so well for the prosecution, as some of the witnesses (McGinnis, one of the militiamen) have seemed to support the defense’s arguments.
The prosecution has also relied heavily on imagery: videos and photos from the night in question, but also of the Rosenbaum and Huber’s wounds. McGinnis tended to Rosenbaum as the purported EMT ran away Rittenhouse has been charged with endangering his safety. He said he saw Rosenbaum lunge for the AR15 and heard him say “fuck you” just before Rittenhouse fired four times. Rittenhouse described himself as an adult and also a medic (he was neither) - McGinnis saw Rosenbaum chasing Rittenhouse and followed. Prosecutors also questioned Richard McGinnis, the Daily Caller reporter who interviewed Rittenhouse minutes before the first shooting. “I really didn’t see him as a threat at all, to be honest with you.” “I turned my back to him and ignored him,” Lackowski said. He also described Rosenbaum as “acting very belligerently” but not in a way that indicated he might endanger himself or anyone else. One of these witnesses, Jason Lackowski, said that he did not think the night called for any force past shouting. In his opening statements, prosecutor Thomas Binger emphasized that although hundreds of people “experienced the night of August 25, experienced the chaos - the only one who killed anyone was the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse.” Binger positioned Rittenhouse as the instigator of deadly conflict, one of the outsiders drawn to unrest in Kenosha “like moths to a flame.”Īmong the dozen-plus witnesses the prosecution called were Dominick Black, a friend of Rittenhouse’s who admitted to testifying in a bid to avoid prison time (Black bought Rittenhouse his AR15, illegally) an FBI agent a Kenosha resident who witnessed and recorded protests that night Grosskreutz, the only person Rittenhouse shot who survived the shootings and two of his fellow militiamen, who testified to Rittenhouse being “underequipped” and inexperienced. He pleaded not guilty to all, claiming he shot his victims in self-defense. Kenosha prosecutors also charged him with two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, one count of first-degree reckless homicide, one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, one count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18, and also for violating curfew. With Fox News personalities hailing him as a hero, and even the then-president defending him, Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree intentional homicide days later. Shortly after that, he shot and killed 26-year-old Anthony Huber, also injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz. And when a confrontation broke out, Rittenhouse fired at a group of people appearing to chase him, killing 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum. Rittenhouse - a former police cadet and a Trump supporter with a strong “Blues Lives Matter” social-media presence - told a right-wing media outlet that he was there doing his “job,” though he had taken it upon himself to help guard the car dealership. That week, Kenosha saw sustained protests after local police shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back with his children watching. Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, lived in Antioch, Illinois he crossed state lines, picked up an illegally obtained AR15 rifle from a friend’s stepfather, and embedded with a self-described militia purportedly protecting a local business from demonstrators out after curfew. After three and a half days of deliberation, a jury acquitted Rittenhouse of all felony counts, including first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety. On Friday, a jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of charges he faced for killing two people and shooting another with an AR15 rifle at Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, 2020.
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