Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse testifies that he was ‘ambushed’ by first man he shot dead

* Rittenhouse, now 18, takes stand at homicide trial in Kenosha * Man charged with killing two says he was trying to help people Kyle Rittenhouse on Wednesday took the stand in his own defense in his homicide trial on charges of killing two men and injuring a third during a night of turbulent protests and counter-protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year following the wounding of a local Black man by a white police officer. Rittenhouse was 17 when he went to Kenosha, just south of Milwaukee, with a military-assault-style semi-automatic rifle and a medical kit in what he said was an effort to safeguard property from damage by protesters that unfolded after Jacob Blake was shot multiple times in the back by a police officer. Continue reading...
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