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Lawyer of alleged Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse claims self-defense as video emerges
nypost.com ^ | 8/28/2020 | natalie Musumeci

Posted on 08/28/2020 4:41:00 PM PDT by bitt

Newly emerged online video and photos apparently shows one of alleged Kenosha, Wisconsin shooter Kyle Rittenhouse’s victims holding a handgun during the encounter – as the suspect’s lawyer insists his client was acting in self-defense.

In the footage, Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Illinois resident, can be seen allegedly shooting his third and only surviving victim Gaige Grosskreutz in the arm as the Grosskreutz apparently holds a handgun.

Prosecutors say Rittenhouse shot Grosskreutz, 26, shortly after fatally gunning down Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, late Tuesday during protests over the Sunday police-shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the city.

The teen shooting suspect was charged with six criminal counts — including first-degree intentional homicide and attempted homicide – but his lawyer L. Lin Wood insists that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.

According to Rittenhouse’s criminal complaint filed Thursday in Kenosha County Circuit Court, an unarmed Rosenbaum had followed Rittenhouse into a used car lot and a Daily Caller reporter identified as Richard McGinnis was trailing behind them.

At the lot, Rosenbaum attempted to throw a plastic bag at Rittenhouse and McGinnis, who witnessed the incident, told authorities that Rosenbaum tried to grab Rittenhouse’s Smith & Wesson AR-15 style .223 rifle before he was shot.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; freekyle; kenosha; kylerittenhouse; linwood; riot; rittenhouse; wisconsin
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To: bitt
...followed Rittenhouse into a used car lot...

"Followed" is too passive. The correct word is "chased".

...attempted to throw a plastic bag...

Was there anything special about this plastic bag? Like was it, you know, on fire? If so, that would seem to be a detail worth mentioning.

41 posted on 08/28/2020 5:10:31 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: bitt

You can clearly see at the 7 second mark the one armed thug has a gun in his hand...


42 posted on 08/28/2020 5:11:17 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ChuckHam

I just donated! I’m grateful for resources like this site instead of those nazis at gofundme. Also grateful for people like Lin and John, the attorneys stepping to the plate to defend Kyle.


43 posted on 08/28/2020 5:11:18 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: bitt

Jacob Marshall, you’re a bad dude. Unfortunately, you messed up. Your name is out there and your picture too. Nice to meet you.


44 posted on 08/28/2020 5:12:14 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; All
I saw the video of him dying - that didn’t look like a 5.56.

Rosebaum was hit four times. The wound to the head was a grazing shot.

He was also shot in the groin, the left thigh, and the side/back going through a lung and liver. (from the criminal complaint)

Supposedly Kyle shot four times. All four seem to have hit his attacker.

45 posted on 08/28/2020 5:12:37 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Thank you. I say that as a fellow American. I’m not in anyway related to Kyle or his defense team. I just feel this young man deserves the best defense he can get.


46 posted on 08/28/2020 5:12:59 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: TigersEye

He should be arrested for attempted murder...


47 posted on 08/28/2020 5:14:51 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“this is just the beginning of his legal problems since he’s likely to be sued for wrongful death by the families of the guys he shot and any innocent verdict on the murder charge won’t factor into the lawsuits...”

This is just the beginning of Wisconsin’s legal problems. Kyle and his attorneys can sue the DA, the cops, the governor, the state, the county and your uncle Harry for malicious prosecution.


48 posted on 08/28/2020 5:15:24 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: bitt

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49 posted on 08/28/2020 5:15:37 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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To: Mariner

I read at some point that the prosecutor had to allege a felony in order to get Illinois to arrest and extradite him.


50 posted on 08/28/2020 5:16:20 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: bankwalker; dead

agreed. I don’t see Kyle as ‘kooky’ at all. why a conservative would say that is beyond me.


51 posted on 08/28/2020 5:16:47 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I agree I wish you would have died frankly.hes a convicted felon out rioting with a firearm, hes clearly a piece of shi*, almost 30 years old and his friend in that post bragging about him out there tearing up the city. why arent these white trash pieces of shi* losers married with jobs? probably on drugs and convicted felons out there in the streets tearing down the city... disgusting.


52 posted on 08/28/2020 5:17:17 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; TexasGator

Agreed. I do not think Kyle shot him.


53 posted on 08/28/2020 5:17:36 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Auslander154

Lin Wood
you rock
Maybe Kyle can end up owning the portion of CNN not already claimed by Nick Sandman


54 posted on 08/28/2020 5:17:40 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: snarkytart

Meant wish HE not you...lol


55 posted on 08/28/2020 5:18:41 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: BenLurkin

The woke would picket their houses.


56 posted on 08/28/2020 5:18:52 PM PDT by databoss
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To: KC_Lion

Agreed!


57 posted on 08/28/2020 5:18:59 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Meant wish HE not you...lol


58 posted on 08/28/2020 5:20:09 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: alternatives?

That thing flew like it had some mass, I don’t think just “plastic bag” describes it.


59 posted on 08/28/2020 5:20:24 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: TigersEye

You mean, Lefty?

Keep in mind that Kyle Rittenhouse neutralized three FELONS!

Say, that’d make a good tagline...


60 posted on 08/28/2020 5:20:59 PM PDT by Does so (KYLE Rittenhouse neutralized three FELONS!)
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