Prosecutor’s Assistant District Attorney Kyle Rittenhouse He was heavily ridiculed online on Monday night, after the jury pointed to the AR-15 during the final debate.
ADA Thomas Binger led the prosecution’s closing arguments in a bizarre speech that lasted more than two hours.
He tried to portray 18-year-old Rittenhouse as an outsider who had come to Kenosha, Wisconsin To shoot protesters who took to the streets after deadly police firing on August 25, 2020 jacob blake,
Meanwhile, Rittenhouse’s lawyers claimed he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum and 26-year-old Anthony Huber and wounded 27-year-old Gage Groskretz.
A verdict in the case is expected on Tuesday, when the case will go to a jury of 12 drawn from a pool of 11 women and nine men to decide the fate of Rittenhouse.
If found guilty of murder, he faces life imprisonment.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger holds Kyle Rittenhouse’s gun while giving his closing argument on Monday
In his closing argument on Monday, Binger tried to portray Rittenhouse as an active shooter and claimed that people in the crowd had the right to stop him.
At one point during the debate, Binger He went on to ‘re-enforce’ what he claimed was visible on blurry drone footage, controversially brought before a jury.
According to Binger, Rittenhouse can be seen putting down the fire extinguisher he was carrying, stopping and raising his gun—pointing to an unseen man.
Binger held onto Rittenhouse’s AR-15, pointing to the corner of the court.
This was the moment, he said, when Rittenhouse “lost his right to self-defense” and “incited” the violence that followed.
Kenosha Police Detective Ben Antaramian shows Kyle Rittenhouse’s AR-15 rifle during trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin
But that moment was heavily criticized online, as Binger clearly broke the first rule of gun safety.
According to National Rifle AssociationGun users should always keep the gun in a safe direction, always keep your finger away from the trigger until ready to shoot [and] Always leave the gun unattended until the owner is ready to use it.
After Binger pointed the gun with his finger on the trigger, Dave Ramos tweeted, ‘I’ve only been in gun range once in my entire life. ‘The first thing you are taught is that you do not point a loaded or unloaded gun at anything that you do not specifically intend to destroy another person.
‘Binger is not only breaking the first rule of gun safety but also pointing it out to the jury.’
Others shed light on the situation by pointing weapons at the jury, comparing Binger to actor Alec Baldwin, who accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins on the set of Rust last month.
Baldwin was reportedly told that during rehearsals when he aimed the gun at Hutchins and fired it, it was not loaded.
Elijah Schaefer, a host on Blaze TV, wrote: ‘The Rittenhouse Prosecution DA gives the jury an example of working with Alec Baldwin on a film set to point a gun, finger at the trigger.’
Benny Johnson, a columnist and podcast host, also wrote that “Alec Baldwin would be proud,” and Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec tweeted: “Alec Baldwin, Thomas Binger. Don’t trust liberals around guns.
Meanwhile, Stephen L. Miller joked: ‘Your honor, prosecutor calls Alec Baldwin to the stand.’
Another user wrote that ‘Binger is a recent graduate of the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Safety.
The moment was heavily ridiculed online, with many comparing it to Alec Baldwin, who fatally shot cinematographer Halyana Hutchins last month.
The incident was just one moment of Binger’s lengthy closing arguments in which he tried to portray Rittenhouse as a teenager who could tell people “here with the AR-15” in search of “thrill”. Running away with ‘neither the honor nor the legal right to do so’.
“Because of the influx of chaotic tourists, these guys with AR-15s are just hard-working soldiers, trying to make some personal connection to the incident, pushing their personal agenda,” Binger argued. We saw a small part here. Kenosha was trying to feed what we were doing, despite what we did to him and tell him, go away, stay out.’
He focused largely on Rittenhouse’s actions that night, trying to counter Rittenhouse’s claim that Rosenbaum had been causing trouble all night, twisting a series and demanding that people tell him. Shoot, spew racial slurs and set it on fire.
He described Rosenbaum as a short man with a ‘Napoleon complex’ at 5 foot-4, but he was harmless.
The prosecutor said, ‘Oh, let me tell you about all the horrible things that Joseph Rosenbaum did.
‘She tipped over a port-a-potty, which had none. He swung a chain. He lit one. Dumpster on fire. Oh, and he said some bad words. He said the n-word,’ Binger claimed.
‘If he were alive today. I’ll probably try and sue him for arson. But I can’t because the defendant killed him.
‘But this is how we treat people who do these things. When you commit arson, we prosecute you. We don’t hit you on the street.
Binger tried to portray Rittenhouse as a teenager looking for ‘thrill’, to tell people that ‘walking around with an AR-15’ was ‘neither an honor nor legal to do so’ Was. Rights’.
Rittenhouse faces life imprisonment after being found guilty of murder in the deaths of 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum and 26-year-old Anthony Huber
Meanwhile, attorney Mark Richards, representing Rittenhouse in the lawsuit, claimed that Rosenbaum was “irrational and insane.”
He said that Rosenbaum followed Rittenhouse until they surrounded him. Richards said that if Rosenbaum had taken Rittenhouse’s gun from him, he would have shot the others.
‘Property. Rosenbaum made a fatal mistake chasing Kyle Rittenhouse that day,’ Richards argued.
‘He ran as far as he could, and he shot four times in three-quarters of a second
‘I’m happy [Rittenhouse] Shot him because if Joseph Rosenbaum had found that gun I wouldn’t believe for a minute that he wouldn’t have used it against someone else. ‘Property. Rosenbaum was determined to cause trouble that night.’
In his argument, Richards argued that state witnesses actually helped Rittenhouse’s case, pointing out that a police detective had agreed that Rosenbaum had come out of hiding to pursue Rittenhouse; A forensic pathologist testified that Rittenhouse shot Rosenbaum to within four feet, reinforcing the defense argument that Rosenbaum reached for Rittenhouse’s rifle; And others in Rittenhouse’s group testified that they were allowed to guard car dealerships.
A member of Rittenhouse’s group, Joan Fiedler, testified that she never saw Rittenhouse behave inappropriately toward anyone, Richards told jurors.
Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed count 6 from Rittenhouse’s rap sheet — illegal possession of a firearm — earlier Monday morning.
The argument came just hours after Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed count 6 from Kyle Rittenhouse’s rap sheet — illegal possession of a firearm.
The defense successfully argued that it is legal for anyone under the age of 18 to carry a ‘short-barreled rifle’ – a rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches – but a long rifle in Wisconsin, he dropped the charge Monday morning. ,
Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the shooting and prosecutors were forced to believe that the AR-15 carried by Rittenhouse on August 25, 2020, was over 16 inches, which is the legal length.
‘Well,’ said Judge Schroeder, ‘the six count has been dismissed.’
Prosecutors built their case on the evidence, the judge warned Monday morning, could see the case ‘falling like a pack of cards’.
Judge Schroeder made his remarks as he and lawyers for both sides finalized directions for the jury to read before closing arguments this morning.
The judge was referring to enlarged drone footage that, the state argues, showed Rittenhouse pointing his gun at people before shooting Joseph Rosenbaum.
The defense argued unsuccessfully for the images, blurred at best and enhanced using an algorithm that the state’s expert witness did not understand, were excluded from the evidence.
Judge Schroeder ultimately decided to allow the images as evidence, saying he would ‘allow the jury to decide the factors that matter in this case.’
But when the matter was raised again today, he warned Assistant District Attorney James Cross, ‘It’s [technicality] I am not used to deciding which camera I am going to buy at a store. It is being used to decide whether someone is guilty of a crime or not.
‘I do not wish to dwell on evidence or comment, but I will give you the presumption that one or more of the following is a conviction that the other propositions do not contaminate the result if it appears at any time. This method used gives incredible results which are going to fall like a deck of cards.
‘You’re basing an extremely important piece of evidence on something you’re really concerned about. But it is a matter of the jury, not mine.’
He concluded, ‘I am not going to give any directions on this, but I have set a record at high risk which I believe presents the case.’