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Kyle Rittenhouse Can't Sue The Kenosha DA, But He Should Be Able To

Lawmakers should consider ending prosecutorial immunity to deter prosecutors like Binger and protect future Kyle Rittenhouses from prosecutorial misconduct.

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Happy Star Wars day to everyone except Thomas Binger and his stupid Star Wars pin

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David French: 'Time to Rethink Open Carry' After Rittenhouse Trial

David French tweeted commentary on the plight of Kyle Rittenhouse by describing open carry of firearms as "menacing" and calling for...

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WATCH: Prosecutor Says Rittenhouse Should Have Let Mob Attack Him Because 'Everybody Takes a Beating Sometimes'

Rittenhouse prosecutor: "Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right? ... That doesn't mean you get to start plugging people."

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Kyle Rittenhouse Is Charged With Fatally Shooting Two People In Kenosha. His Lawyer Said It Was Self-Defense.

The prosecutor in the case said during open arguments that out of the hundreds of people protesting that night in August 2020, "the only person that killed anyone was the defendant."

Ellie Hall at BuzzFeed News: 

Opening arguments on Tuesday set the stage for the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who allegedly shot and killed two people and wounded another during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year. Prosecutors called the now-18-year-old an aggressor, while Rittenhouse's attorney maintains his client acted in self-defense.

Kenosha County Circuit Court Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said Rittenhouse was one of the armed "tourists" who were drawn "like moths to a flame" by the civil unrest in the city that erupted following the shooting of a Black man by police in August 2020.

"But out of the hundreds of people that came to Kenosha during that week, the hundreds of people that were out on the streets that week, the evidence will show that the only person that killed anyone was the defendant," Binger said. "When we consider the reasonableness of the defendant’s actions, I ask you to keep this in mind."

Rittenhouse's attorney, Mark Richards, countered the prosecution's version of events in his opening statements, claiming that this client only acted because he was afraid for his life.

"Ultimately, what this case will come down to — it isn't a whodunit or when-did-it-happen or anything like that. It is: [Were] Kyle Rittenhouse's actions privileged under the law of self-defense?" Richards said.

Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, violent demonstrations broke out in Kenosha on Aug. 23, 2020, after a 29-year-old Black man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back by police while walking to his car. Blake, who was shot in front of three of his children, was left paralyzed from the waist down as a result of his injuries.

Two days later, during the protests, Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, allegedly shot and killed protesters Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, 27. He is also accused of recklessly endangering the lives of an unnamed individual and Daily Caller reporter Richard McGinnis.

Rittenhouse has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, one count of attempted homicide, two counts of recklessly endangering safety, and one count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. He has pleaded not guilty. If convicted of first-degree homicide, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

As the Associated Press and the New Yorker have noted, the Rittenhouse case has sparked an American culture war, with many on the right seeing him as a patriot who exercised his Second Amendment rights and acted in self-defense to protect Kenosha from violent protesters. President Donald Trump even addressed the shooting specifically during the 2020 election campaign, defending Rittenhouse and saying he "probably would have been killed" if he hadn't taken action.

The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial's opening arguments began today. The defense pushed the delusion that what Rittenhouse did was self-defense.