Posted on 11/02/2021 7:42:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New footage of events that led to a shooting involving Kyle Rittenhouse reveals the Illinois youth was charged by several leftist demonstrators, with one man involved in arson activities firing a weapon at Rittenhouse just before Rittenhouse was attacked by Joseph Rosenbaum. Rittenhouse shot and killed Rosenbaum when he went for Rittenhouse’s rifle, later facing an attack from other Kenosha rioters and shooting two more people.
Jack Posobiec published the footage on Tuesday morning, before it was displayed in opening arguments during Rittenhouse’s trial.
The footage, containing both aerial thermal imagery and video of the street in Kenosha where the first shooting occurs, shows Rittenhouse running through a crowd and asking if anyone needed medical assistance. Rosenbaum, a convicted sex offender who had been released from a psychiatric facility earlier in the day, can be seen hiding among vehicles at a car dealership before beginning to chase Rittenhouse. Another rioter since charged with arson, Joshua Ziminiski, fires a supposed “warning shot” at Rittenhouse’s general vicinity, with Rittenhouse turning around, facing a charging Rosenbaum, and shooting him when he tried to wrest control of Rittenhouse’s rifle.
The video footage may present some of the strongest evidence in favor of Rittenhouse’s argument of self defense, showing him to be aggressor upon by two rioters- one armed- without cause. One man can be heard encouraging a crowd of rioters to “get him” in reference to Rittenhouse, who had merely asked if anyone in the crowd needed medical attention.
Opening arguments in Rittenhouse’s homicide trial ended on Monday.
We can say “I told you so.”
Our sources reported that at the beginning.
The title is inaccurate, the first shot that was fired was straight in the air, not at kyle. We know exactly who it was too
On Tuesday, opening statements in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an18-year-old aspiring police officer accused of fatally shooting two men and wounding a third on the night of Aug. 25, 2020, as BLM riots raged in the streets of Kenosha in response to a white-on-black police shooting.
While prosecutors have slapped the teen with two counts of homicide and one count of attempted homicide, Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to all charges, claiming self-defense.
Now, new footage has emerged which bolsters his case.
Before the shooting began, Rittenhouse, 17 at the time, was had arrived in Kenosha in order to help keep order and protect businesses from looting and arson.
"People are getting inured, and our job is to protect this business, and part of my job is also to help people. If there’s somebody hurt, I’m running into harm’s way. That’s why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself obviously. But I also have my med kit," Rittenhouse said in footage recorded before the incident.
During the course of the evening, protesters became increasingly violent against Rittenhouse and the group he was with - eventually chasing the teen down the street when protester Joseph Rosenbaum was shot dead in the parking lot of a used car dealership. Shortly thereafter, Rittenhouse could be seen defending himself on the ground from multiple attackers - when he fatally wounded another, and shot the bicep of protester Gaige Grosskreutz who had drawn a pistol and was in the process of aiming it at the teen.
I will. In the first photo, we see one of the men bludgeoning Kyle Rittenhouse with his skateboard. In the other two photos, we see a man who—as Rittenhouse is laying on the ground—draws a pistol in an attempt to murder Rittenhouse, only to be shot himself. pic.twitter.com/RPQw8cpQqS — Francis Curt 🇻🇦 (@fcXXXIII) November 2, 2021
At the time, this footage captured by journalist Brendan Gutenschwager, was all we had to go on.
The Kyle Rittenhouse Shooting: WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!
Commentary from journalists @JackPosobiec and @ElijahSchaffer, edited by @jondutoit. From https://t.co/DmPO8WAg6k by @Lauren_Southern 1/3 https://t.co/tMdRhmVHGd pic.twitter.com/zS3iNBWmXr
Wow, that sad communist agitator is going to forever satisfy himself with his left hand.
You mean the illegally armed felon who was trying to murder the boy?
i can’t help but wonder if divine intervention saved Kyle.
Duh. We knew that already.
Yup. All that idiots right arm is going to be good for without a bicep is holding down papers in the wind.
Yeah. I watched that kid be chased down with a man waving a gun via live stream last year. It was messed up.
He pretended to back off at first and raise his hands, then went immediately back into offense mode. What a POS.
I could not even read that site unless I gave an email address. Here is usable link to the video as long as it lasts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ferrn7Shyk
Oh, to see the judge’s reaction when he can call out the prosecutor for the blatant lies in his opening statement...
“aggressor upon”
Imaginative use of language.
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Rittenhouse shot the bicep of Gaige Grosskreutz, a volunteer medic for Black Lives Matter who was in the process of aiming his pistol at the teen