Yet Binger repeatedly stressed that amid the hundreds of people in Kenosha and the anger and chaos in the streets, “the only person who killed anyone is the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse.” In his opening statement, prosecutor Thomas Binger described the unrest in Kenosha as “two of the roughest nights that our community has ever seen” and said outsiders were drawn to the city “like moths to a flame.” He was pale, shaking a lot.” Black said Rittenhouse told him that he acted in self-defense because “people were trying to hurt him.” He said he heard gunshots but didn’t know Rittenhouse was involved until the teenager called and said, “I shot somebody, I shot somebody.”Īfterward, Black said, Rittenhouse was “freaking out. He also said Rittenhouse helped give medical aid and put out fires.īlack said he was on the roof as protesters hurled gasoline bombs and rocks at the business. Black said he thought nobody would start trouble if they saw him with his assault-style rifle. Black faces charges he bought the rifle for Rittenhouse months before the shootings because the teen was not old enough to own one at the time.īlack testified that he and Rittenhouse went to downtown Kenosha to help protect a car dealership after vehicles were burned the night before. The first witness was Dominick Black, who was dating Rittenhouse’s sister at the time. The teenager traveled to Kenosha from his home in Illinois, just across the Wisconsin state line, after protests broke out over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer. Rittenhouse said he went there to protect property after two nights in which rioters set fires and ransacked businesses. (Adam Rogan/The Journal Times via AP, File)
But for many people, Rittenhouse’s trial will be watched closely as the latest referendum on race and the American judicial system. So were the three men he shot during street protests in Kenosha in 2020. 25, 2020, file photo, Kyle Rittenhouse carries a weapon as he walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wis., during a night of unrest following the weekend police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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