yes. okay. but at this moment in time, this is before the shootings. yes. . this is before you crossed 60th, before you deal with rosenbaum, huber, grosskreutz, all that. yes. so at this moment in time, you don t think there s a hostile crowd, you re there to help people and yet you re going to run out there with the ar-15. i don t understand why you felt you were going to be in danger, if you re out in what you think is a friendly crowd, helping them? i didn t say i didn t think they were hostile. i didn t think they were hostile towards us. okay. so they re not hostile to you and you re going to go help them. why do you need the gun when you go out there? i needed the gun because if i had to protect myself because somebody attacked me. why would you think anybody would do that? i don t know. but you clearly planned on it. you were prepared for it. you thought it was going to happen? no, i didn t. that s the whole reason you brought the gun, isn t
Opening statements are expected to begin Tuesday in the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the armed Illinois teenager who killed two people and wounded another during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer.