What am I supposed to see here? I see a man with no obvious weapons in his hand running at KR who turns and shoots him several times at close range with his rifle.
You see self defense. As it is. As it SHOULD be.
How can you witness an assailant chase down and attack someone and come to any other conclusion?
If you need some context behind Rosenbaum's attack, the trial gave PLENTY of it!!!
Here's what Richard McGinness said he saw.
PROSECUTOR: I mean you have no idea what Mr. Rosenbaum was thinking at any point of his life. You have never been inside his head, you never met him before.
MCGINNISS: I never exchanged words with him, if that’s what your question is.
PROSECUTOR: So your interpretation of what he was trying to do or what he was intending to do or anything along those lines is complete guesswork isn’t it.
MCGINNISS: Well he said f--- you and reached for the weapon.
Well, there's that. So a convicted child molester with a long and violent criminal history runs up to Kyle Rittenhouse out of nowhere in the middle of a riot and tries to take his gun away. So Rittenhouse shot him. That's what happened. Those are the facts. Again, according to the prosecution’s own witness. And not just one witness.
Today, the prosecution's medical expert, a man called Doug Kelly, testified that Joseph Rosenbaum appeared to be grabbing the barrel of Kyle Rittenhouse's rifle when Rittenhouse fired. Then yet another prosecution witness, this one called Ryan Balch, testified that Joseph Rosenbaum said out loud that he intended to kill Kyle Rittenhouse.
BALCH: And I stepped in and told everybody, "chill out, calm down, stop doing that." I turned and had an exchange with one of the protestors and I kind of explained to that protester, I get what you’re trying to do but not this. And when I turned around, Rosenbaum was right there in front of my face yelling and screaming. And I said dude, back up chill, I don’t know what your problem is. And he goes you know what, if I catch one of you guys alone tonight I’m going to f---ing kill you."
BINGER: And he said that to you?
BALCH: Correct.
BINGER: Did he say that to the defendant as well?
BALCH: Well the defendant was there – so yes.