Drainy
Full Member
“If I had my AR I’d shoot them”
A while later he takes an AR and travels to a place himself in a hostile situation, then actually does shoot someone.
“Nothing alike”
1) Looters are not protesters.
2) Its called running your mouth. Hyperbole you use may give some insight towards your attitude, but its a murder trial not a gossip circle.
3) He was reported by all involved to have been pleasant to every protester until the incident with Ziminski- with the heavily contested assertion about Yellow Pants Man being possible exception that everyone who is on the record denies
4) Rosenbaum, a man who was acting unstable all night, that most protesters didn't want anything to do with. Multiple people heard him make threats against Rittenhouse's life, chased him. When he points his gun at him, Rosenbaum put his hands up and Rittenhouse doesn't shoot, he continues to run because Rosenbaum is still making ground on him. Rittenhouse continues to try to flees. He runs out of safe room to run towards, turns around and by the prosecutions evidence Rosenbaum was within 1-4 feet with his hand either on or just in front of the gun. The whole incident lasted about 10 seconds.
5) While he's running towards the police when he gets the 'opportunity' to shoot people who are running towards him he doesn't shoot unless they are kicking his face, grabbing his gun, or pointing a gun at him. Anyone who was not a threat he didn't shoot with the view of getting away with it by claiming he was panicked or confused afterwards in the hopes of duping people.
I appreciate you are being snarky, but its a completely legal call that doesn't allow prejudicial information before the jury and is in line with rulings made about prejudicial information about other parties. The fact its being used as a sign of bias from the judge is just a very twitter thing.