NEW: Prosecutors rested their case against Kyle Rittenhouse by playing for the jury a new drone video of the teenager apparently shooting Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, multiple times.
Legal experts interviewed by ABC News weigh in as jury selection in the trial of Rittenhouse begins.by playing for the jury a new drone video of the teenager allegedly shooting the first of three men -- two of whom died -- during a 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Smith testified that he spoke to Rittenhouse soon after the teenager allegedly shot the three men and that Rittenhouse repeatedly told him,"I just shot someone. I had to shoot someone." Smith said Rittenhouse had earlier in the evening loaned him his body armor and helped protect the Car Source businesses.Kyle Rittenhouse waits for the start of his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., Nov. 9, 2021.
The shootings occurred during a protest over the police shooting in Kenosha of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man who was paralyzed from the waist down from his injuries, that had devolved into looting and destruction of businesses in the two days prior to the night of the deadly confrontations involving Rittenhouse.
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