Kyle Rittenhouse shouted 'Friendly! Friendly! Friendly!' as he was being chased by a man he eventually shot to death during street protests against racial injustice, a police detective testified -- in a confrontation the defence portrayed as 'the classic ambush.'
KENOSHA, WIS. -- Kyle Rittenhouse shouted "Friendly! Friendly! Friendly!" as he was being chased by a man he eventually shot to death during street protests against racial injustice, a police detective testified -- in a confrontation the defence portrayed as "the classic ambush."
Richards also described how Rosenbaum had come out from behind a car to meet Rittenhouse before the shooting, saying to the detective: "Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like the classic ambush." Prosecutors have portrayed him as the instigator of the bloodshed, while his lawyer argued that he acted in self-defence after Rosenbaum tried to grab his gun and others in the crowd kicked him in the face and hit him in the head with a skateboard.
Footage shown to the jury also depicted Rosenbaum lying on the ground as frantic bystanders surrounded him to help. He had a wound to his head, and a bystander placed a shirt on it to apply pressure. Howard, the detective, detailed injuries Rittenhouse suffered that night, all seemingly minor: A half-inch scratch above his eyebrow, a small cut inside his lower lip, a 2-inch scratch below his collarbone, a 2-inch scratch on his forearm, a scratch on his back and two bumps the size of pennies on his head.
Richards drove against that on cross-examination, asking Howard what can happen if a weapon is taken from someone."Correct," Howard replied.
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