Kyle Rittenhouse trial

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This is why any sane person won't buy his little performance crying in front of the cameras
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... nosha.html

He's a little s**t and is not remorseful. I stand by the families of the deceased and so would any other decent person.

or maybe it's simpler ...

maybe the jury buys the prosecutor argument that face kicker, Huber, Grosskreutz were heros trying to stop an active shooter, and all fault lies with Rittenhouse for being irresponsible for running around illegally with a rifle at night near crowds of people

I was thrilled when he was charged; I thought it was the right thing to do.

An expert witness testified Thursday it took very little time for Kyle Rittenhouse to kill two men and wound another during protests last year.

Citing his analysis of several videos of the events, John Black told jurors in Rittenhouse's homicide trial the teen's first four shots at Joseph Rosenbaum took three-quarters of a second.

From the first of those shot to the eighth and final shot that wounded Gaige Grosskreutz in the arm a couple blocks away on Sheridan Road, less than a minute and half expired, Black said.

Black said the video helps establish, objectively, what occurred.

"Does the video necessarily show what the actors are viewing?" defense attorney Mark Richards asked.

Black said it can't, because people focus on some things at a time, and can't see everything in real time like a camera.

"So, ... video is two-dimensional, and reality is three-dimensional?" Richards asked?

"At a minimum," Black said.

The defense called two other witnesses Thursday.

Kenosha police Officer Brittni Bray testified she recovered spent shell casings from Rittenhouse's rifle in the area where he shot twice at unidentified man, killed Anthony Huber with one shot and wounded Grosskreutz.

On cross-examination, Bray also said she's very familiar with AR-15 rifles, and they sometimes jam after the round has fired. Empty casings can eject after a rerack. Prosecutor Thomas Binger asked what would happen if you pulled the trigger on a jammed rifle without re-racking.

"It would go click," she said. "It wouldn't go bang."

The final defense witness was an Arizona man who had come to Kenosha to take video of rioting.

Frank "Drew" Hernandez said he is now a "professional commentator" for Real America's Voice. He took video with a bodycam and his cellphone the night of the shootings.

After hiring an attorney in Wisconsin, he turned over all his video to lawyers in the case. He said he took video at protest and riots around the country during the summer of 2020.

Hernandez said he had seen Rosenbaum acting aggressively during the evening, behavior described by other witnesses and seen on several videos. Hernandez said he had little contact with Rittenhouse but saw him trying to calm some protesters in front of the Car Source business. He and other armed men and an armed woman from West Bend were guarding the business.

Binger cited a tweet Hernandez posted within an hour of the Rosenbaum shooting. Binger argued it showed Hernandez's bias in favor of Rittenhouse, and noted that Hernandez had been referring to him as "Kyle" during his testimony.

"Were your videos very slanted against rioters?" Binger asked.

"Because they are rioting in the footage, absolutely," he said.

In its rebuttal case, the prosecution introduced two photos taken from some drone video seen earlier in the case. That drone recorded footage from south of the 63rd Street car lot, giving a different perspective and clearer view of Rittenhouse killing Rosenbaum.

Rittenhouse said it did not, so the state introduced the photos to rebut that. The defense argued to block the photos, arguing the state crime lab expert who produced them from the video couldn't fully explain the algorithms that allow digital image enlargement.

At the request of both sides, Judge Bruce Schroeder agreed to let the jury have a three-day weekend before returning to hear closing arguments on Monday. He and the lawyers will spend Friday ironing which instructions he will give the jury before closing arguments.

Prosecutors also said they intend to ask for lesser-included offenses on some of the counts, including a first-degree intentional homicide charge in the death of Anthony Huber.

When a judge instructs about lesser-included offenses, jurors have the option of finding the defendant guilty of a related charge if they don't believe prosecutors proved all the elements of the primary charge.

The judge presiding over the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse confused observers after making a strange and off-color joke inside the courtroom on Thursday.

"I hope the Asian food isn't coming.. isn't on one of those boats from Long Beach Harbor," said Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder as the court was preparing to take a lunch break.

I assumer based on judge Schroeder's character so far that he'll be giving Kyle a "high 5" at the end of proceedings and posing with the local Kenosha militia.

Calm down. Your reaction is over the top.

Why? And would that have changed had he been 6 months older?

I don't believe Rittenhouse;s tears are sincere. His lawyer coached him using the same trick used by the Sandmann family when they sued the Washington post over reporting of the Covington incident.

Here's Rittenhouse while on bail shortly after killing Huber and Rosenbaum

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He's drinking beer while underaged with members of a white supremacist group throwing an OK sign (w white supremacist hand signal) and wearing a t-shirt that says "I'm free as f**k"

I doubt the parents of the dead men aren't going to buy that somebody who is celebrating after killing people can suddenly become remorseful on cue when taking the stand to defend himself.

That is a year ago.

Now, I realize a lot of far right voices have been sitting in his ear, but so has the simple reality of time and contemplation. We don’t know where his mind has gone during long nights trying to sleep. Odds are very good that the national attention, reality of taking a life, and the precarious nature of the original situation that night have all taken their toll.

I left a whole lot of mitigation off that comment didn’t I? When he was first charged I hadn’t done much research. As I noted when the trail first started, I have since come to realize it was one heck of a lot more nuanced and complicated.

Where things ended on Thursday (just finished watching witness questioning):