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Kyle Rittenhouse Prosecutor Might Have Broken the Law with AR-15 Demonstration

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. . .[Kyle] Rittenhouse was 17 years old at the time when he shot and killed Anthony Huber and Joe Rosenbaum in Kenosha, Wisconsin during the 2020 riots. He claims it was self-defense—and the video evidence sure backs that up. The testimony of Gaige Grosskreutz who was also shot by Rittenhouse in the arm also blew up the prosecution’s case. He admitted to being shot once he pointed his firearm at Rittenhouse. Huber and Rosenbaum were also no angels. Huber was a rapist and a wife beater. Rosenbaum was a convicted sexual predator. I’m not shedding any tears for them. Our own Julio Rosas is covering the trial at Kenosha right now.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger has been the main clown in this spectacle, making so many odd remarks and arguments that you sort of get lost in this spaghetti of insanity. The judge even reprimanded him for trying to pull a fast one when it came to the criteria concerning cross-examination. Oh, and he pointed an AR-15 at folks inside the courtroom. He was demonstrating something concerning the weapon but ironically didn’t consider basic gun safety during the demonstration which might have run afoul of the law. I’m not kidding.

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Kyle Rittenhouse Judge’s Children Receive Death Threats

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As Kenosha, Wisconsin, braces for possible violence in response to an upcoming verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, Judge Bruce Schroeder is on alert for his personal safety and his children’s after receiving death threats for his effort to conduct a fair trial.

One message to the Kenosha County Circuit Court judge threatening his children vowed “pay back” and warned that the teen who is on trial for murder “won’t live long” if he is acquitted.

Schroeder, DailyMail.com reported, has received “thousands” of vile messages, as have court officials. . .

Another email obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, addressed to “Your Honor,” reads: “I didn’t know that under your black robes of justice you wear a white robe of the klan. There is no way a fair trial can be heard under your supervision. Better yet, resign.”

Critics of the judge have bristled because he allowed the defense to refer to the men Rittenhouse shot as “rioters” and “looters.” And Schroeder barred the prosecution from calling the three Black Lives Matter rioters, all white men, victims. And he has been criticized for the “God Bless the USA” ringtone on his phone as well as a joke about the delivery of “Asian food” for lunch being held up at an L.A. port due to the supply chain crisis. (Read more from “Kyle Rittenhouse Judge’s Children Receive Death Threats” HERE)

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Rittenhouse Prosecutor Claims, Contrary to Law, That ‘You Lose the Right to Self-Defense When You’re the One Who Brought the Gun’; Jen Psaki Audibly Sighs After Reporter Complains About Kyle Rittenhouse Being Called ‘White Supremacist’ (VIDEO)

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By The Blaze. The lead prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial made an extremely puzzling claim involving guns and self-defense during his closing arguments to the jury Monday afternoon. . .

In an obvious affront to the second amendment rights of all Americans, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger argued that the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse, gave up his right to self-defense when he chose to bring a gun to the Black Lives Matter riots in the Wisconsin city last summer.

“You can’t claim self-defense against an unarmed man,” Binger stated before adding, “You lose the right to self-defense when you’re the one who brought the gun.” The law does not state, either in Wisconsin or elsewhere, that the self-defense can only be claimed against people who are armed with a gun.

Elsewhere he claimed, “You cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create. If you’re the one threatening others, you lose the right to claim self-defense,” according to Newsweek.

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Prosecutor Thomas Binger Attacks Kyle Rittenhouse for Getting Choked Up While Testifying

By Breitbart. Thomas Binger — the lead prosecutor in the murder case against Kyle Rittenhouse — used the 18-year-old’s raw emotions on the witness stand last week as a knock against his character during closing arguments Monday.

“He showed no remorse for the victims, he never tried to help anyone that he hurt,” Binger, who serves as assistant district attorney in the Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office, said during closing arguments Monday. “Even on the witness stand — when he testified on Wednesday — he broke down crying about himself, not about anybody that he hurt that night.”

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Jen Psaki Audibly Sighs After Reporter Complains About Kyle Rittenhouse Being Called ‘White Supremacist’

By Raw Story. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki could be heard audibly sighing on Monday after Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy complained that President Joe Biden called Kyle Rittenhouse a “white supremacist.” . . .

“Why did President Biden suggest that Kyle Rittenhouse, on trial in Kenosha, is a white supremacist?” the Fox News correspondent wondered.

An audible sigh could be heard coming from Psaki’s microphone. But she declined to address the Rittenhouse trial directly.

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Rittenhouse Trial: Prosecution Big Win on “Provocation” Jury Instruction Saves Chance at Conviction

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Much of the [Friday’s] argument over jury instructions centered on the instructions dealing with the legal doctrine of provocation—and that’s because an attack through the doctrine of provocation is the only desperate hope the State has for overcoming Kyle’s powerful claim of self-defense and obtaining convictions on the use-of-force charges against him.

Of the six counts brought against Kyle Rittenhouse in this trial, five are use-of-force felonies (the other is the misdemeanor gun possession charge already discussed). To each of those felony charges, Kyle has raised the legal defense of self-defense. To convict on any of those, then, the State must disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. How might the State do this, given that it has introduced little if any evidence attacking the core elements of Kyle’s self-defense? By attacking Kyle’s claim of self-defense through the doctrine of provocation. . .

Simple provocation occurs when the defendant engages in unlawful conduct likely to provoke a violent response. When that violent response occurs, the simple provoker cannot claim self-defense for resistance until they exhaust every possibility of avoiding the need to use force, including retreat–where a duty to retreat would not exist in an otherwise lawful act of self-defense.

Provocation with intent occurs when the defendant deliberately provokes a violent response, with the intent of then having an excuse to use deadly force against the person provoked. Importantly, the provoker with intent cannot regain self-defense by withdrawal and communication—on the other hand, the State must prove that malicious intent beyond a reasonable doubt. . .

For example, the State may argue that Kyle was a simple provoker who committed an unlawful act by pointing his rifle at Joshua Ziminski, thus provoking a reasonably foreseeable violent response from Rosenbaum. Although Kyle then fled, the prosecution would argue that he could have fled further than he did, and thus failed to exhaust every possible means of avoiding having to use defensive force. This would mean he had not regained the privilege of self-defense that he lost by his simple provocation. (Read more from “Rittenhouse Trial: Prosecution Big Win on “Provocation” Jury Instruction Saves Chance at Conviction” HERE)

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Rittenhouse Spokesman Slams Biden for Ad Implying Teen a ‘White Supremacist’

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David Hancock, spokesman for Kyle Rittenhouse, slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday over an ad he posted while running for president that falsely implies Rittenhouse is a “white supremacist.”

“Don’t forget, the candidate for the U.S. presidency himself last year prior to the election called Kyle Rittenhouse a white supremacist,” Hancock told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “Joe Biden called him a white supremacist; that is appalling. I can’t even gauge how wrong that is.” . . .

As highlighted by Fox News, Hancock also blasted the media for creating a false narrative about the case.

“The media has been absolutely irresponsible and purely abhorrent with this entire situation,” he said. “They’ve been parroting the same false information time after time after time. They even do it to this day. No, he did not cross state lines with a weapon. That was known last year. Apparently, the media doesn’t care to report accurate information.”

“It’s appalling,” Hancock said, later adding, “It’s almost as if they don’t want to know the facts because then they’re gonna have to say the truth.” (Read more from “Rittenhouse Spokesman Slams Biden for Ad Implying Teen a ‘White Supremacist’” HERE)

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Senator Probes FBI Aerial Surveillance After Rittenhouse Defense Suspects Foul Play in Kenosha Case

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Sen. Ron Johnson sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday requesting information about how the FBI uses surveillance aircraft during riots and protests and what it does with the footage.

The Wisconsin Republican cited reports of the FBI using these aircraft to watch the 2014 unrest in Ferguson, Mo., 2015 demonstrations in Baltimore, and the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The Kenosha footage is now being used as prosecutorial evidence in the criminal trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, raising questions about how the FBI preserves surveillance video and uses it.

“Given the FBI’s apparent use of surveillance aircraft during protests and unrest throughout the country, it is unclear how the FBI monitors those situations, how it preserves the footage from those aircraft, how it uses that footage, and whether the footage is captured at different quality levels,” Johnson wrote in his letter.

Johnson’s questions for Wray include how the FBI determines when and where to monitor potential unrest and how many aircraft to use, who exactly is responsible for monitoring the video, how the FBI shares its video with local law enforcement, and what the FBI does if its aircraft spot a crime happening. Johnson also inquired about whether the FBI records its footage at different levels of video quality and how it preserves the video it captures. (Read more from “Senator Probes FBI Aerial Surveillance After Rittenhouse Defense Suspects Foul Play in Kenosha Case” HERE)

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Rittenhouse Trial Judge’s ‘Asian Food’ Comments Sparks Cries of Racism

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Leftist internet trolls have been crying racism in response to Kyle Rittenhouse trial Judge Bruce Schroeder’s reference to “Asian food” on Thursday as the court went into recess.

The alleged “faux pas” happened as Judge Schroeder dismissed the court for lunch on Thursday afternoon, during which he mocked President Joe Biden’s supply chain crisis at Asian food’s expense.

“Let’s hope for one o’clock, I don’t know, the uh, hope the Asian food isn’t coming — it isn’t on one of those boats in Long Beach Harbor,” he said. . .

“Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial makes inappropriate Asian food joke,” headlined CNN.

John Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, told the far-left outlet that the judge’s joke will put the Asian community “in the crosshairs of micro aggressions as well as actual physical violence,” stressing that the comments indicate the judge’s lack of “cultural sensitivity.” (Read more from “Rittenhouse Trial Judge’s ‘Asian Food’ Comments Sparks Cries of Racism” HERE)

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Kyle Rittenhouse Prosecutor’s Case: Rioting Good, Self-Defense Bad; Defense Moves for Mistrial; Liberals Demand New Judge in Rittenhouse Case

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By The Federalist. If you follow the prosecution’s case against Kyle Rittenhouse, the only logical end is the assertion that self-defense is almost never an option and visiting the scene of a riot is only okay if you are there to burn property.

There are other facets to lead prosecutor Thomas Binger’s arguments — that Rittenhouse, 18, was in illegal possession of a gun, that he showed up in Kenosha, Wis., that night of violent rioting because he was pursuing danger, and that he could have easily done things differently. But the bulk of Binger’s questioning of Rittenhouse on Wednesday relied on the assumption that unless a person has physically touched you, and unless you were at the scene for reasons not in line with others present, there is no reason to protect yourself with force that may prove deadly.

Rittenhouse face chargers for the murders of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, as well as the intentional homicide of Gaige Grosskreutz. It’s not disputed, and it’s on video, that Rittenhouse shot all three, and only Grosskreutz survived.

It’s also on video and backed up by eyewitness testimony that each of the three men was running after Rittenhouse and making attempts to take his gun. Grosskreutz, who was armed at the time, himself said he tried grabbing Rittenhouse’s AR-15.

Binger played the videos, which the jury has seen multiple times already, and acknowledged in questioning that Rittenhouse was being chased that night in August 2020. But his emphasis has been that: 1) Rosenbaum, the shooting of whom set off the whole episode, never physically touched Rittenhouse and 2) that Rittenhouse’s presence, by its very nature, was needlessly provocative. (Read more from “Kyle Rittenhouse Prosecutor’s Case: Rioting Good, Self-Defense Bad” HERE)

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Defense Moves for Mistrial in Kyle Rittenhouse Case

By Breitbart. The defense in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, moved Wednesday afternoon for a mistrial based on the prosecution’s violations of the defendant’s rights and the judge’s previous rulings about admissible evidence.

Defense attorney Corey Chirafisi asked Judge Bruce Schroeder to declare a mistrial “with prejudice,” which would prevent prosecutors from bringing the charges again. That provision, Chirafisi claimed, was necessary to prevent prosecutors from deliberately ruining their own case to get “another kick at the cat.” He said that prosecutors, led by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, had acted in “bad faith” — a key element of dismissal with prejudice.

The motion came after a lunch break, and after Judge Schroeder had admonished the prosecution that it had committed a “grave constitutional violation” by referring to Rittenhouse’s previous silence, which conflicts with his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. (Read more from “Defense Moves for Mistrial in Kyle Rittenhouse Case” HERE)

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Liberals Demand New Judge in Rittenhouse Case After His Phone Rings During Trial With Patriotic Ringtone

By The Blaze. While many of the developments of the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse appeared to go south for the prosecution Wednesday, some on the left demanded a new judge after his phone rang during the trial and revealed a patriotic ringtone.

Rittenhouse is on trial for shooting three protesters during political unrest in August 2020 in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Two of the three protesters died.

On Wednesday Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder berated the assistant district attorney for Kenosha County in what many saw as a sign that the case was possibly headed towards a dismissal by mistrial.

In response, many on the left latched on to the idea that the judge’s ringtone was evidence that he was biased in favor of Rittenhouse.

Among those were the former White House photographer during the Obama administration, Pete Souza, who tweeted, “Mistrial. Assign a new judge.”

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Key Rittenhouse Witness Claims He Was Asked to Change His Statement by Prosecution; Prosecution Rests in Trial After Witness Admits He Pointed Gun at Him

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By Daily Caller. A key witness for the prosecution in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial testified Tuesday that he was asked to change his statement by the prosecution team.

Nathan DeBruin was taking photographs of the events the night that Rittenhouse killed two protestors and injured another, according to WISN.

Prosecutor Thomas Binger asked DeBruin to identify a person in a picture, according to DeBruin’s testimony.

When DeBruin didn’t know who the person was, Binger allegedly identified the person as Joshua Zaminsky. . .

“I just felt, I didn’t want to change my statement,” DeBruin told the defense attorney. (Read more from “Key Rittenhouse Witness Claims He Was Asked to Change His Statement by Prosecution” HERE)

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Prosecution Rests in Rittenhouse Trial After Witness Admits He Pointed Gun at Him

By Washington Examiner. Prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial rested their case Tuesday following a week of testimony that at times appeared to hurt them more than help.

Much of the explosive testimony came on Monday when Gaige Grosskreutz , the only person to survive being shot by Rittenhouse, lent support to the defense’s central claim that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense on Aug. 25, 2020. That night, Rittenhouse shot and wounded Grosskreutz in the arm minutes after fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26.

Grosskreutz, a trained EMT who traveled to Kenosha on his own behalf to render medical aid to protesters, testified Monday as the state’s star witness.

However, his testimony underscored the uphill battle prosecutors have faced trying to prove Rittenhouse was a trigger-happy tourist who purposely inserted himself into the chaos unfolding in Kenosha.

Hundreds of protesters showed up to the small Wisconsin manufacturing town after footage went viral of white police officer Rusten Sheskey shooting Jacob Blake Jr ., a black man, seven times in the back. The shooting left Blake paralyzed from the waist down. (Read more from “Prosecution Rests in Rittenhouse Trial After Witness Admits He Pointed Gun at Him” HERE)

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Key Witness in Rittenhouse Trial: Defendant Was Being Chased by Rosenbaum and Tried to Grab the Rifle

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Richie McGinniss, the chief video editor for the Daily Caller, testified on the third day of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial about what he saw on the night of August 25. McGinniss was the man behind Joesph Rosenbaum when Rittenhouse shot Rosenbaum four times. McGinniss took off his shirt to try to stop the bleeding and carried Rosenbaum to a vehicle so Rosenbaum could be transported to the hospital across the street.

Due to McGinniss’ heavy presence in the first half of the shootings, he is a key witness in the trial.

Being questioned by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, McGinniss said Rosenbaum was chasing Rittenhouse, further undercutting Binger’s opening argument, and Rosenbaum was in fact lunging for Rittenhouse’s AR-15 when Rittenhouse’s avenues of escape were cut off in the car lot and a handgun was fired.

Binger tried to nail down McGinniss by pointing out he had said during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson Rosenbaum was falling down before Rittenhouse shot him with his rifle. McGinniss said lunging was a more applicable term and saying falling down was not a contradiction.

“Because [Rosenbaum] lunged and then the shot was fired as he was lunging. It was like, I guess, perhaps it was the shots that caused him to then, rather than stopping himself, just fall flat,” McGinniss said.

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