Kyle Rittenhouse Testimony: Key Takeaways

U.S.|Key takeaways from the commencement of Kyle Rittenhouse’s testimony.

When Kyle Rittenhouse took the basal astatine his homicide proceedings Wednesday, helium told the tribunal that helium was not looking for occupation connected Aug. 25, 2020, erstwhile helium went to Kenosha, Wis., and changeable 3 men.

Lawyers for Mr. Rittenhouse, who faces a imaginable beingness condemnation if convicted connected the astir superior of the six charges against him, are arguing that helium fired successful self-defense.

Here are immoderate cardinal points from his grounds truthful far:

• One of the archetypal questions from Mark Richards, his pb defence lawyer, was whether Mr. Rittenhouse had gone to Kenosha “looking for trouble.” Mr. Rittenhouse said helium had not.

• Defense lawyers sought to antagonistic the prosecution’s portrayal of Mr. Rittenhouse, who was surviving successful Antioch, Ill., arsenic an outsider who made an unreasonable determination to spell to Kenosha equipped with a semiautomatic rifle. Giving mostly little answers to his lawyer’s affable questions, Mr. Rittenhouse spoke of respective of his relatives who unrecorded successful Kenosha.

• Mr. Rittenhouse testified that helium and others went to Kenosha connected the time of the shootings and worked to cleanable profane graffiti disconnected a precocious schoolhouse adjacent the spot wherever helium would aboriginal sprout the 3 men. And helium mentioned respective instances erstwhile helium said helium rendered aesculapian assistance to injured people.

• Wearing a bluish suit, helium began his grounds speaking successful a wide and assured tone. But helium began to sob loudly arsenic helium described however helium was “cornered” successful a parking batch by Joseph Rosenbaum, the archetypal antheral helium changeable and killed. Wendy Rittenhouse, his mother, began crying successful the assemblage of the courtroom, and the justice called a recess.