Posted on 11/15/2021 8:00:21 PM PST by 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:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well, at least he didn’t say, “lie back and enjoy it.” /s
Quoting Ray ("Henry Hill") Liotta from "Goodfellas."
The prosecutor is quoting a Hollywood gangster from a gangster movie?
F k reputation start eliminating these commie bastards and bitches......hang them from the highest tree......no one here has the balls to post what I said.
Prosecutor is gonna take one, too.
Arrogant fat f**k
Fatlock is a crappy lawyer who thinks that you have to be nearly dead from a beating before you can use deadly force,
Nope, he really said that. I watched it on live streaming.
Actually the prosecution argued that is what Kyle should have done. That is self defense should have been limited to only fighting back in the same manner of his attack. But that is not what lawful self defense requires. Kyle did not fight back. He stopped an attack which he reasonably believed meant his life was in imminent danger. He did so by the means he had at hand (his rifle. That it lead to the death of another was not because that other person wanted to fight. But because that person wanted to inflict great bodily even deadly harm on Kyle. You don’t fight in those circumstances. You stop the person. COLD.
“He should not have interfered with their riot.”
THAT is the crux of the situation.
The Fey Wray is ANTIfa’s enabler.
The FIB were apparently there in force with all of their high tech gear to protect AntiFa.
It’s sickening.
Well the rioters had a right to be there and Kyle was just a chaos tourist to hear tell the DA’s fairy tale.
this is what got the left so pissed about the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case....Zimmerman should have just taken his beating...lesson is, ya cant just start attacking people,.. neva know what cha gonna get....
SHOCKING: The Young Turks ADMIT They Were WRONG Kyle Rittenhouse [Video]
https://marypatriotnews.com/shocking-the-young-turks-admit-they-were-wrong-kyle-rittenhouse-video/
If the jury buys this stupid (yes, stupid) argument this country has no hope.
Guaranteed that he carries concealed.
I can’t think of The Young Turks without thinking about the Steven Crowder Parodies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsVONO75utI
The moral of the story is If one wishes to go on living; don’t have minor car crashes in the Bronx and stay your ass out of there. In fact, the sun would not set on my ass in New York. Period.
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