Kenosha: The judge in the trial of Wisconsin’s murder from Kyle Rittenhouse instructed the jury on Tuesday to start negotiating on the fate of teenagers, who killed two men and were injured as third during the racial judicial protest last year.
The jury, which numbered 18 to two weeks of testimony, was trimmed up to 12 for deliberation.
Judge Kenosha County Bruce Schroeder told the jury to start weighing this case, who filed a prosecution argument that Rittenhouse with reckless shooting men without justification, against the teenage statement he was law.
“Okay ok, you can retire to consider your ruling,” Schroeder said.
Rittenhouse, 18, was charged with killing Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz, 28, on August 25, 2020.
The shooting took place in Kenosha during protests, riots and looting – it followed a police shot of a black man, Jacob Blake, which is left paralyzed from the waist.
Rittenhouse begged innocently and took the stand last week to argue that he only fired his gun after the men attacked him.
He said Rosenbaum, the first person he shot that night, grabbed his semi-automatic rifle barrel.
On Monday, the prosecutor and defense advisor gave their closing arguments, offering a very different depiction of the defendants.
The prosecutor explained Rittenhouse as a careless vigilante that provoked a series of violent meetings, first by raising his rifle in a threatening way, then by shooting Rosenbaum which created a “active shooter” situation that tried to stop.
The defense said Rittenhouse, who brought a medical kit besides his gun, only wanted to help injured and protect used car dealers from the type of property damage that Kenosha had seen for two nights before the shooting.
The shooting has emerged as the closest case with civil rights to defend himself since George Zimmerman was released in the shooting of Fatal Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in 2013.
Like Zimmerman, seen as a polarization number, seen.
As heroic by some conservatives that support extensive weapons rights and as a symbol of careless American weapons culture by many people on the left.