Kyle Rittenhouse trial

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Yeah, I'm honestly surprised the prosecution introduced that video, if anything it bolsters the case for the defense, unless they really are trying to throw the case because the whole thing is political and they never wanted to bring it in the first case. I heard there was some weirdness involving the possible existence of an HD version of the tape but that the FBI was being evasive about it, just something I heard and haven't followed up on, but potentially interesting.

It's interesting he's being charged twice with *First-degree recklessly endangering safety, use of a dangerous weapon*, a 12.5 year penalty + 5 years for use with a gun.

Once for shooting in the line of McGinnis.
Once for shooting at the person who tried to kick him.

That's 35 years maximum just for shooting his rifle near others.

The judge told the jury that if even if they find Rittenhouse acted in self-defense with Rosenbaum, that doesn't mean he didn't endanger the safety of McGinnis when he fired his rifle at Rosenbaum.

So, this trial is not just about self-defense.

there is no use arguing with folk who think he is a hero.

Simply put: What responsibility do you have to show towards other's lives (innocent, or assailants) when attempting to defend your own life - Or, put cynically (as I have seen some have done elsewhere): Should you be more concerned about the lives of others when attempting to defend yourself rather than your own?

That's 35 years maximum just for shooting his rifle near others.

Show me the post where anyone here calls him a hero; I'll wait. You, however, clearly made up your mind early before any of the evidence was in, and have stuck to it regardless of said evidence ever since in what sure looks like pure tribalism. There's a word for that.

It's funny but the margin of error for Rittenhouse to be spending the rest of his life in jail is razor sharp. Can't quite understand the apparent confidence in his presumption of innocence?

During the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday, video was entered into evidence that showed the shooting for which the young man is on trial from an aerial angle. The video had not yet before been seen.
The video was obtained by Jack Posobiec of Human Events Daily prior to its presentation into evidence.

The new video was presented into evidence on Tuesday by the defense, with descriptions given prior to the showing of the video to give jurors a sense of what was happening in the video. Still photographs showed Rittenhouse, as well as the men who were shot, and reporters who were on the scene.
The video was shot via an FBI plane during the riot in August 2020 when Rittenhouse shot three men, killing two and injuring a third.
Tuesday's footage compliments a previous video published in September 2020 by an organization that was raising funds for Rittenhouse's legal defense. Free speech group #FightBack Foundation posted the separate 11-minute video, detailing the order of events on that fateful night in Kenosha.
The video from last year showed how tensions rose as Black Lives Matter rioters set a dumpster ablaze, moving it towards a gas station.
A militia guard quickly extinguished the flames, angering the alleged fire-starter, 36-year-old Joseph Don Rosenbaum, who was allegedly shot dead by Rittenhouse.
Rosenbaum reportedly retaliated, focusing his attention on a guard in a green t-shirt dressed similarly to Rittenhouse. Rosenbaum was also allegedly seen starting more fires down the street on the night in question. Rittenhouse was simultaneously spotted running with a fire extinguisher.
According to the 2020 tape, Rosenbaum chased Rittenhouse. A single gun shot was fired by a rioter, identified as Alexander Blaine, a 44-year-old Sin City Disciples gang member and amateur porn actor. A muzzle flash of Blaine's hand gun was visible before Rittenhouse was pinned between parked cars.
The sequence showed reporter Richard McGinniss filming the foot pursuit on his cell phone, following close behind. Directly in front of Rittenhouse, a mob armed with bats formed a barricade. Rittenhouse's back was to the initial shot.
The clip with the same angle was transposed onto Tuesday's footage at the 1:46 second mark, visible in the lower right-hand corner.

I think he's clearly guilty of at least some charges ...

1. He will obviously be convicted of the curfew violation, and weapon possession by a minor charges.

2. I feel he should be convicted of shooting at the kicker, as kicking is not a threat of imminent death or great bodily harm.

Wisconsin law defines *great bodily harm* as one which causes a substantial risk of death.

3. I feel he should be convicted of shooting at McGinnis, based on the court instructions, since it appears like he didn't care where his bullets went. So he did have *utter disregard* for hitting McGinnis, who was in Rittenhouse's line of fire.

4. I feel like firing four shots at Rosenbaum is at least reckless homicide, as it was established Rosenbaum was falling to the ground before the final (kill) shot. So, clearly, he was not a threat of imminent death or great bodily harm when the final (kill) shot was fired. (The prosecutor stated in court that medical examiner determined the 4th shot is the one that killed Rosenbaum).

A series of videos played in Kyle Rittenhouse's criminal trial on Wednesday show that a different person fired a gunshot in the air seconds before the teenager fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August.

That initial shot was fired by Joshua Ziminski, Kenosha Police Det. Martin Howard testified. About 2.5 seconds later, Rittenhouse, 17 at the time, shot an unarmed Rosenbaum four times in a parking lot, killing him, Howard said. Another three shots then rang out, the videos show, but Howard said investigators still do not know who fired those.

Ziminski, 36, has separately been charged with disorderly conduct using a dangerous weapon, arson and obstructing an officer, and he has pleaded not guilty, court records show. A criminal complaint says he admitted to firing a "warning shot" in the air that night.

Prosecutors played about 10 videos in court Wednesday that, taken together, showed what happened before, during and after Rittenhouse killed two men and wounded another in Kenosha. Rittenhouse, now 18, has pleaded not guilty to seven charges, including first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide and first-degree attempted intentional homicide.

The videos, some of which were graphic, came from different angles and from a variety of witnesses at the scene.

The first batch of videos showed the first shooting in which Rosenbaum chased Rittenhouse and threw a bag at him. A gunshot then went off, and Rittenhouse then shot Rosenbaum four times. Prosecutors showed graphic video of Rosenbaum lying on the ground with a head wound as people tried to provide medical aid.

While the video was playing in the courtroom, Rittenhouse's head was pointed downward, not watching the video.

Prosecutors then played different videos of people who pointed out Rittenhouse as he ran from the shooting scene and yelled that he had just shot a man. A crowd started to chase Rittenhouse, who fell and then fired four more rounds, the videos show.

In one video, taken earlier in the night by Daily Caller editor Richie McGinniss, Rittenhouse said he was out on the streets serving as a medic and that the other armed individuals were there to protect him.

"Our job is to protect this business and part of my job is to also help people," Rittenhouse said. "If there's somebody hurt, I'm running into harm's way. That's why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself obviously. I also have my med kit."

Koerri Washington, who live-streamed the unrest in Kenosha last August, testified at the start of Wednesday as prosecutors played a video he took on the night of the shootings. He testified that Rosenbaum had been acting "erratic" and Rittenhouse was chain smoking and appeared nervous that night.

Det. Howard testified that he examined Rittenhouse when he turned himself in the day after the shootings.

Howard noted that Rittenhouse had a half-inch scratch above his left eyebrow, a small cut on the inside of his lower lip, a 2-inch scratch below his left collarbone, some redness to the right side of his belly button, a 2-inch scratch on his left forearm, redness on his right forearm, redness at the tip of his right thumb, a scratch on his back near his left shoulder blade and two bumps on the back of his head.

Dominick Black, a 20-year-old friend who was dating Rittenhouse's sister, testified Tuesday as the first witness in the trial and said he had previously purchased an AR-15 firearm for Rittenhouse in what prosecutors called a "straw purchase."
Rittenhouse was too young to purchase and possess a gun, but he gave Black funds to buy the firearm, Black testified.

On August 25, 2020, Black and Rittenhouse each took a weapon and ammo and went to downtown Kenosha to try to protect a car dealership called Car Source, where about six or seven other armed people had gathered. Black climbed atop the roof of the dealership that night because he felt being on the ground was too dangerous, he testified.

Black has been charged with two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a person under the age of 18 causing death, according to court records. He has pleaded not guilty. He testified Tuesday that he hoped taking the stand would lead to leniency in his case.

The judge presiding over the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial in Wisconsin slammed media coverage of the highly-divisive case on Wednesday. “There are people on the media, on reputable sites, that are saying things that are totally bizarre,” Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder said in a sprawling rant after sending the jurors out of the room. The diatribe came amid discussions on whether to play a video of the unrest in the city last summer to jurors in which the narrator continually referrers to Rittenhouse and others around him as “militia members.

Schroeder insisted to the prosecution and defense that over the last few weeks, he has heard a lot of chatter about the case and reports about how he “messed up” the 2008 murder trial of a man accused of poisoning his wife with antifreeze and smothering her. “Actually, I had it 100% correct in the first place,” Schroeder said, despite the state Supreme Court ruling he had improperly allowed evidence in that tria

I think he's clearly guilty of at least some charges ...

1. He will obviously be convicted of the curfew violation
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