Sobbing so hard at one point that the judge called a break, Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand at his murder trial Wednesday and said he opened fire during a night of turbulent protests in Kenosha after a man chased him down and put his hand on the barrel of Rittenhouse's rifle.
Rittenhouse said that after he gunned down Joseph Rosenbaum, he shot another man in the street, Anthony Huber, after Huber struck him in the neck with his skateboard and grabbed his rifle.
Rittenhouse said he was walking toward a Car Source lot with a fire extinguisher to put out a fire when "I hear somebody scream, `Burn in hell!' And I respond with `Friendly, friendly, friendly!"' Rittenhouse said he intended to help Rosenbaum, but was in shock as someone else attended to Rosenbaum. Rittenhouse said he thought the "safest option" was to turn himself into police who were on the road nearby.
Apologizing to the court for his language, Rittenhouse said Rosenbaum was walking down the street with his chain and screamed, "If I catch any of you alone I'm going to kill you!" Rittenhouse's decision to testify came despite several legal experts saying that an underwhelming prosecution case had made it less likely he would need to do so.
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