'I never wanted to shoot Mr. Rosenbaum...I didn't want to have to shoot him,' Kyle Rittenhouse says during cross examination by the prosecution.
He picked his testimony back up at when he saw Rosenbaum charging toward him.Kyle Rittenhouse takes the witness stand during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., Nov. 10, 2021.He said as Rosenbaum began to chase him, he heard Ziminski allegedly tell Rosenbaum"to get him and kill him."
"I thought if I were to be knocked out ... he would have stomped my face in if I didn't fire," Rittenhouse said. Rittenhouse said he climbed to his feet and proceeded to walk toward a line of police vehicles to turn himself in. He said he approached the window of a squad car and said,"I just shot somebody. I just shot somebody."The teenager said he then went back to one of the Car Source car lots he had been helping to guard and spoke to the group of allies who were locked inside.
Schroeder warned Binger that it was a"grave constitutional violation" to talk about Rittenhouse's silence until now. Richards immediately objected, saying Schroeder had not ruled on the admissibility of the previous act. But Rittenhouse said that he once went into the street to retrieve a Dumpster that had been taken from one of the Car Source properties and set on fire.
Rittenhouse said he was looking for people who needed first aid when he and Balch got separated, leaving him isolated in the crowd Binger said appeared hostile. Rittenhouse answered,"I didn't intend to kill them. I intended to stop the people who were attacking me."The teenager responded,"I did what I had to do to stop the person who was attacking me."
Rittenhouse answered,"I wasn't using deadly force to protect the property. I was using deadly force to protect myself."Binger then asked Rittenhouse about an incident 10 days before the shooting. Binger claimed that he believed the"court left the door open" on the matter, prompting an angry and loud response from the judge.Schroeder continued,"I was astonished when you began your examination by commenting on the defendant's post-arrest silence. That's basic law. It's been basic law in this country for 40 years, 50 years.
Rittenhouse agreed with Binger that once the police moved the crowd south there appeared to be no more threat to the Car Source location.Rittenhouse said he stayed to help provide first aid to anyone in need. Rittenhouse responded,"I was walking through. I announced myself as friendly and that I was there to help them.""I ask the court to strongly admonish him and the next time it happens I'll be asking for a mistrial with prejudice," Richards said.
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