Kyle Rittenhouse trial - anyone watching?

I think video of him blubbering on the stand should be submitted to the Academy Awards.

Could he face charges for the gun? Certainly. But that is not going to bring a conviction for the murder charges against him.

I was thinking more along the lines of a Razzie for worst actor. 

"What’s True — and False — About the Victims’ Criminal Histories


The viral claims alleging unlawful behavior by Huber, Rosenbaum, and Grosskreutz before the Kenosha shooting were a mixture of truth and falsehoods.



For example, yes, at age 19, Rosenbaum was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing five children — all boys between the ages of 9 and 11 — in Arizona’s Pima County in early 2002, according to his case file obtained via a public records request by Snopes.



The documents said Rosenbaum was temporarily living with the boys’ parents after his mother had kicked him out for disobeying her rules about one month earlier. Over the course of his weeks-long stay, Rosenbaum molested the boys, showed them porn, and performed oral sex on them, among other offenses, the documents showed. He was sentenced to prison for roughly 15 years, and authorities believed at the time “his risk to recidivate being of great concern to the community” considering the victims’ gender and age. (Let us note here: The records included an interview with Rosenbaum in which he said his stepfather sexually abused him and his brother on an almost daily basis when he was a preteen.)



Considering that evidence, the claim that Rosenbaum at one point was convicted of sexually abusing at least one child before his death was true.



Next, we analyzed criminal records involving Huber, and determined it also accurate to state he was charged with domestic abuse. We uncovered a Kenosha County criminal complaint that outlined his first serious run-in with law enforcement, in December 2012. And per that complaint, Huber, who was 18 years old at the time, threatened his brother and grandmother at their home with a knife, choked the brother, and demanded that they follow his orders. The complaint said the brother wanted to take Huber to a hospital, apparently for emergency mental health help, but Huber resisted. In the end, he was charged with strangulation and suffocation and false imprisonment, both of which are felony crimes.



On another occasion, about three years later, Huber paid a roughly $150 citation or possessing drug paraphernalia, court records showed. Then, in 2018, Huber was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor offense, after a fight with his sister at their house, per a criminal complaint by Kenosha prosecutors.



But unlike what many Rittenhouse supporters claimed, we could find no court evidence that Huber had sexually assaulted anyone.



Also false was the assertion that all three of the teenager’s victims were felons. Grosskreutz had not committed a felony crime, our analysis of court records showed.



He was, however, found guilty in 2016 of breaking Wisconsin’s law governing the use of dangerous weapons — a misdemeanor offense — per Milwaukee County court records. He had apparently gone somewhere “armed while intoxicated,” though the court records did not elaborate on what exactly had happened. Snopes requested a copy of the probable cause statement from county records administrators, but we have not yet obtained it.



Additionally, Grosskreutz at various points received tickets for minor offenses including disobeying police officers and making loud noises, the court records showed. However, no evidence showed he had indeed committed burglary, like supporters of the alleged killer claimed, though he had been arrested on suspicion of the crime in 2012. The felony charge was later dismissed, per Wisconsin Department of Justice’s criminal data.



In the interview with CNN, Grosskreutz said he has paid his debt for his past crimes and that he had every right to carry a gun at the Aug. 25 protest. “I’m not a felon,” he said. “I had a legal right to possess and to possess it concealed.” www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/11/rittenhouse-victims-records/

Nothing about the victims makes me feel any better about Kyle Rittenhouse. Perhaps they are all idiots assholes.  But that doesn't mean what he did was ok.  We do not need people walking around with AR-15's, especially 17 year old's who lie about being a paramedic and think they are going to be a hero for doing so.

This is the opposite of talking intelligently about the trial.

He isn’t on trial for being a punk. That’s not illegal.

He isn’t on trial for being a white supremacist. That isn’t illegal.

He’s guilty of what? Have you actually watched the actual video of what he did and seen the evidence presented at trial? If not, then how can you say he’s guilty?

I think the judge is bias. The prosecuter unprepared. The jury has gotten a raw deal, I that they have not gotten all the facts from either side. Rittenhouse is a punk, but that does not make him guilty or innocent. Whatever the verdict is, people will not be pleased.

Poorly handled all the way around. To me it felt like a local two-bit traffic court.

Clearly, you’ve never seen someone start to cry. What he did…ain’t it. But keep trying to excuse a murderer.

You trumpy cultists are the worst kind of disgusting. Just horrible people.