the gun. had it been shorter and a short-barrelled gun, then it would have been illegal but because it wasn t the judge said that that needed to be thrown out and indeed that charge of minor in possession of a gun illegally was thrown out in this case. the jury only looking hat those who were injured, those who were endangered and killed the night in august that rittenhouse ended up shooting people. we also learned that he was working here that night, that he had stayed over that night here, and we saw some video, earning to, joseph rosenbaum, the first person that he shot and killed. we saw drone video, high resolution drone video that did not come into this case until five days into this trial, and that is under contention. there was a mistrial requested because of both what the defense called prosecutorial overreach and they said they were going to file about this video that appeared very late in the game, the high resolution version of it, but now none of that matters. they are cer
also when he had brought up rittenhouse s post-arrest silence. they took the jury out of the room, and there was a discussion about not wanting the jury to hear the yelling back and forth. people who don t agree with this verdict look at all of that, they feel there were a lot of things around the edges of the trial they feel may have had some influence. the other thing they will bring up and are frustrated with was the judge s last-minute decision to dismiss the misdemeanor charge of illegal possession of a weapon by a minor. it was dismissed over a technicality, where they said it was only for a short barrelled gun. kyle s was longer barrel, and does not apply. i heard from multiple people today that that is a moment,
recognize this is not good for this singular survivor of these shootings, to be articulating that even he, with his arm blown off, and the injury that he had, when he made the admission that he had raised the gun, and the gun was raised before he was shot. the prosecution tried to come back and clarify in closing, but i think the damage had been done, and the dye had been cast, and that s before we start looking at the influence that the judge had throughout the entirety of this case, against the prosecution, either not liking the charges or not likely the lawyers or in my belief, both that really kind of led us to this outcome that was predicted, i think, by a lot of people separate from the fact of how difficult the lawyer s case from prosecution was from the very beginning based on the fact. so you hear the prosecutor say that the judge is a fair judge here. do you think that s right, or
or shot by kyle rittenhouse, took the stand. and under cross-examination, there was this moment. and i want to play it and paul, i want to talk to you about what you see about its potential significance. when you were standing three to five feet from him with your arms up in the air, he never fired, right? correct. it wasn t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him, with your gun now your hands down pointed at him, that he fired, right? correct. and observerser saw that as potentially bolstering the case for the defense here. do you think that was a moment that perhaps the jury sort of latched on to? 100%. that was a linchpin. and i think you saw it, if you panned the crowd and looked out youb saw the da team lower their head. you saw them, oh, that wasn t a great moment, that was a terrible moment. and let s just be clear. this case was very definitely
ironic that we are having a conversation about what the state s response is going to be from this verdict, and the entire verdict and case itself is centered around protest rallies and gatherings, as well. and those have been the underlying conversations through the entirety of the trial, which i think is absolutely relevant here. my question, which i think is a fair one is, what happens now when another person comes to a protest and feels scared? and i want to pose the question of, what is that result, if it is a black person, a black youth with an illegal gun that comes to a rally, a protest, say, and then they feel scared and it ends up in a shooting, would we have these same results? i think these are valid questions based on this result, because i always like to look at these lens as we re talking about cases like this and we re talking about reforms and we re talking about accountability, how do we overlay that with a lens of race to ask these exact