Then he wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, saying the protester had lunged at him “with his pistol pointed directly at my head.” Rittenhouse testified that he then shot and killed protester Anthony Huber after Huber struck him in the neck with his skateboard and grabbed his gun. “You understand that when you point your AR-15 at someone, it may make them feel like you’re going to kill them, correct?” Binger asked. The prosecutor sought to drive home the state’s contention that Rittenhouse created the dangerous situation in the first place. And Binger suggested that Rosenbaum might have been trying to bat the rifle away. Rosenbaum take my firearm from me, he would have used it and killed me with it,” he said, “and probably killed more people.”īut Rittenhouse also acknowledged that the strap holding his gun was in place and that he had both hands on the weapon. Rittenhouse said he “didn’t want to have to shoot” Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man to fall that night, but he said Rosenbaum was chasing him and had threatened to kill him earlier. Rittenhouse continually pushed back, saying he had no choice but to fire. Prosecutor Thomas Binger went hard at Rittenhouse all afternoon during cross-examination, walking him through each of the shootings. After the judge called a recess, jurors walked by Rittenhouse and looked on as he continued to cry.Īfter the morning outburst, he was largely composed the rest of the day, though his voice seemed to break at times as he came under tough cross-examination. 11 the business had raised $43,170 in donations.As he began crying on the stand and appeared unable to speak, his mother, Wendy Rittenhouse, seated on a bench across the courtroom, sobbed loudly. “We, at Car Source, are a victim of Riots, here, in Kenosha, WI and lost 137 cars and our facility this week,” the fundraising page reads. On Sept. The car dealership launched a GoFundMe at the end of August to help raise money.
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“They don’t cover the riots,” Khindri said in an interview in front of a lot full of burned cars. Khindri told the local ABC affiliate, WKOW, about his insurance woes on Sept. In the days before the fake article circulated, Khindri had spoken to several news outlets.
When asked about the fabricated FOX Business story, Kenosha Police Department Sergeant Jeremy Dewitt told the AP, “We have no reports consistent with the alleged information that is put out there, we have no information like that. The part of the fake article that is being shared on social media does not name Khindri, but he has recently spoken to media outlets about the $2.5 million of damage at his car lot and his insurance company’s unwillingness to pay for it. The Associated Press contacted Khindri by cell phone for comment and received a text that reads, “It’s fake news.”įOX Business spokesperson Emily Burnham confirmed to the AP that it had not published the article. 11, a screenshot circulating on Facebook shows what appears to be the FOX Business website with the headline, “Kenosha car dealer kills himself after his insurance won’t cover a cent of the 2.5 million dollars of damages caused by the riots.” Amid the unrest, the Car Source dealership was burned. THE FACTS: The police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, led to several nights of protest and civil unrest in Kenosha.
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