Jurors in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse will begin deliberating on Tuesday, weighing the prosecution's argument he shot three men without justification during protests, against the teenager's assertion that he acted in self-defense.
Rittenhouse, 18, is charged with killing Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz, 28, on Aug. 25, 2020. The shootings took place in Kenosha during protests - marred by arson, rioting and looting - that followed the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed from the waist down.The trial judge said the jury would begin deliberations on Tuesday after court opens at 9 a.m.
Prosecutors described Rittenhouse as a reckless vigilante who provoked the series of violent encounters, first by raising his rifle in a threatening way, then by shooting Rosenbaum which created an "active shooter" situation which others tried to stop. The shootings have emerged as the most closely watched case involving a civilian's right to self-defense since George Zimmerman was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in 2013.
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