Kyle Rittenhouse wandered around sporting a rifle, patrolling a city literally burned down by the anti-racist protests after the police shooting of a black man, in August 2020, in the city of Kenosha. He is accused of killing two people at the time. Now, breaks down crying without consolation relating the fear that he says, happened that night. Tears and pouts that some in the room consider pure strategy.
It all started when Rittenhouse shot a man who had thrown a plastic bag at him. After seeing what he has done, he calls on his mobile and says: “I just killed someone …”. His victim is left on the ground with a headshot while the adolescent flees.
When they tried to stop him and he responded by shooting and struck a young man in the chest who tried to take his rifle from him. He shoots another in the arm.
He maintains, now in court, that he did all this in self-defense: “I did nothing wrong. I was defending myself.” The judge has scolded the prosecutor for the harshness of his questioning and for, he considers, acting in bad faith.
Rittenhouse accuses itself of two counts of murder and another of attempt. He came to the city from another state, he argues, to defend businesses that were being vandalized in protests and provide medical aid. He assures that he carried the weapon to defend himself but thinking that he would not have to use it. His defense asks that the trial be declared void.
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