‘Life Is More Important than Property’: Prosecutors Tell Jurors Self-Defense Law Provides Only ‘Limited’ Help for Kyle Rittenhouse – By Aaron Keller (Law and Crime) / Nov 2 2021
Prosecutors have delivered opening statements to a Wisconsin jury empaneled to determine whether Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer or a teen who acted lawfully in self defense.
Assistant Kenosha County District Attorney Thomas Binger told the jury that Rittenhouse, then 17, “armed himself with an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle loaded with 30 rounds in the magazine” and shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, an “unarmed man,” on Tues., Aug. 25, 2020.
“The shot that killed Mr. Rosenbaum was a shot to the back,” Binger said. “This occurred after the defendant chased down Mr. Rosenbaum and confronted him while wielding that AR-15.”
Binger said Rittenhouse ran from the body and refused to offer help. Word spread, the prosecutor said, that an “active shooter” was running amok.
