WATCH: Prosecutor Says Rittenhouse Should Have Let Mob Attack Him Because ‘Everybody Takes a Beating Sometimes’

Breitbart ^ | 11/15/21 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[conservative98]

James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, told the jury in a Kenosha, Wisconsin court Monday that the defendant should have let himself be attacked last August because “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”

Kraus was delivering the rebuttal argument, after fellow prosecutor Thomas Binger gave the first closing argument, and defense attorney Mike Richards responded on behalf of Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried throughout the day to argue that Rittenhouse did not have the “privilege” of self-defense, even though he only shot people who had pursued and attacked him, because he had provoked the attack by bringing his rifle to the Black Lives Matter riot near midnight on August 25, 2020.

Accordingly, Kraus argued, Rittenhouse had a duty to retreat — not just before firing his weapon, but before resisting in any physical way. And he added that Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be beaten by members of a mob that both he and Binger had described as “heroes,” concerned citizens acting to stop what they saw as an “active shooter” on the street.

“Mr. Richards misstated the standard [for self-defense],” Kraus argued. “It is not ‘could have caused’ great bodily harm or death. It is not ‘likely’ to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is ‘imminent threat’ of death or great bodily harm.

“Where is that, when you get a couple scrapes? Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?

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Earlier, defense attorney Richards adamantly declared that his client did not have a legal duty to be beaten by a mob:

[GOPsterinMA]

What a joke…

[DrewsMum]

I don’t even understand this narrative that you can’t defend property with deadly force.

OF COURSE YOU CAN. Because in the course of damaging property, innocent people can be hurt. The outcome of damaging or stealing property can strip people of their means of protection, livelihoods, food/ shelter for their family, cause untold psychological damage etc. The butterfly effect of destroying someone else’s property is impossible to predict.

And I contend that if Kyle “asked for” a beating by carrying a weapon, then at the very least, smashing cars, starting fires and busting windows is also “asking for it”.
By their own logic.

The prosecutor sounds like school officials who punish kids who get in fights all the same, instead of taking self defense into consideration and punishing the one who started it more severely.

[New Perspective]

As I remember from the video, Rittenhouse got his hat slapped off, kicked and hit in the face with a skateboard. The mob got their shots in, and Kyle got his! Because sometimes a mob full of @ssholes needs to be gunned down!

Actually one man charged him and actually had his hand over the barrel of the gun and was shot 4 times in under 3/4 of a second. Then a man with a rock hit him in the head. He was hit with a skateboard. Then he was kicked in the face. Then he was hit a second time with a skateboard and shot. Then he was being charged at by a man with a gun pointed at his head. Pretty simply to me, self-defense.

[New Perspective]

[New Perspective]

Correct spelling error :)

[Lurker]

Brilliant.

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[New Perspective]

Thank You:) Feel free to share.

[Chode]

can’t find one of him sitting right

[lapsus calami]

 

 

LoL - so says the representative from the same government that allowed an entire city to take a "beating".

 

 

[liberalh8ter]

This guy listens to too much REM.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Does that mean that a group of Kyle’s angry relatives can beat this fat fool to a bloody pulp?