Trial of fascist Kenosha shooter Rittenhouse delayed until November
On Wednesday, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger and the defense for Kyle Rittenhouse the fascist youth charged with killing two anti-police violence protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin last August agreed to postpone the teenager’s murder trial for seven months.
In a four-minute virtual appearance before Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder, Rittenhouse’s lawyer Mark Richards agreed with DA Binger that more time was needed to prepare the trial originally scheduled to begin on March 29.
Rittenhouse displays a white supremacist hand gesture while meeting with members of the Proud Boys
1. “I Just Killed Somebody”
Kyle Rittenhouse was sprinting away from the scene of an apparent crime when he phoned a friend and choked out, “I just killed somebody. I had to shoot him.” Then he hung up. Men in masks were beginning to chase him. Rittenhouse kept running, his heavy cowboy boots clomping against the pavement, uncertain if he’d have to fire his gun again. He was 17, and for much of his life he’d toyed around with guns and dreamed of being a cop of keeping order. That was what he’d been seeking to do last August when he carried an assault rifle into downtown Kenosha, Wisconsin, swaths of which had been razed during previous nights of rioting. That was what he’d been doing moments earlier, as midnight neared, when he’d confronted a group of vandals and arsonists wrecking a car dealership. He had been trying to get them to stop. One, with a red T-shirt wrapped around his head so that his eyes showed through a slit, had charged the teenager, and Rittenh