Kyle Rittenhouse trial

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Has he given many interviews, or otherwise communicated outside of the courtroom? IIRC he's been in hiding for most of the time since being bailed out, and that photo of him at the bar was taken almost immediately after he was bailed out after several months in jail, so you'd expect him to be pretty happy about that, especially as the people he was with had helped to arrange the bail. As a person awaiting trial for murder, it was in his interest to maintain silence, as anything he said could have been used against him, including any statement of remorse, as a prosecutor could easily twist them into an admission of guilt. This is very basic legal stuff.



You mean the town where his father and other relatives lived, where he worked as a lifeguard, and where he spent the afternoon cleaning up the mess left by previous nights of rioting? Yeah, he had no connection to that place at all, it was completely ridiculous of him to be upset that it was being burned down night after night while the police stood by and watched. If he was there to initiate violence, he also did a very poor job of it, yelling "friendly! friendly! friendly!" as he rushed around with his med kit, and running from pursuit until literally cornered before resorting to force in all three shootings.



Yeah, poor unarmed Rosenbaum, who was literally fresh out of the mental hospital after a suicide attempt, who goaded multiple people to shoot him that night, had a long history of violence, and was shot in the act of chasing down Rittenhouse and trying to yank his rifle away. Amazing how you claim to know what someone's intent was who you've never met when you weren't there at the time, especially when both the video and the witness testimony confirms that all four shots were fired in less than 1 second, consistent with a self defense shooting to stop the threat, not your claim of a shot to neutralize and then three more to execute. IIRC, you're normally Mr law and order when the cops shoot someone, and they don't shoot once, pause to assess, than shoot again as necessary, they shoot until the threat is neutralized, which is exactly what occurred here. As a final aside, you don't seem to know what cold blooded means in either the legal or moral sense, as even if your argument had merit, which it does not, it would be a hot blooded murder in that it occurred in the heat of the moment, Rittenhouse did not plan out the shooting of Rosenbaum, lie in wait for him, or otherwise attack him with the proverbial cold blood required for that term to attach.



You've got at least 3 untruths in 2 sentences there, as he absolutely can claim self defense, in fact he could even claim it if he started things due to the fact that he was actively fleeing at the time of the shootings, but there is also no evidence of any threats or provocations coming from Rittenhouse (as opposed to Rosenbaum in particular), and he most certainly didn't create the danger, as that riot was happening whether he was there or not.

Aren't you the "evidence, please?" guy, who grills other members when they can't support what they say to your satisfaction (although you've gotten rather selective about that), the same person who boasts unironically of being a perfectly logical genius? And yet here you are making multiple unsupported assertions, misstating the law and the facts as shown by video, and claiming to know what's in the minds of others (when you're not making creepy prison rape reference)? Not a good showing, that's for sure.