Rittenhouse jury asks to see video on Day 2 of deliberations

By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The justice astatine Kyle Rittenhouse’s execution proceedings said Wednesday that helium would “think agelong and hard” astir allowing televised trials successful the future, criticizing media sum of immoderate of his decisions aft calling prosecutors and defence attorneys into tribunal to sermon a assemblage petition to presumption video presented earlier successful the trial.

Jurors weighing charges against Rittenhouse returned for a 2nd time of deliberations aft failing to scope a swift verdict connected whether helium was the instigator of a nighttime of bloodshed successful Kenosha oregon a acrophobic national who came nether onslaught portion trying to support property.

About 2 hours into deliberations Wednesday, jurors asked to presumption video shown earlier successful the proceedings and Judge Bruce Schroeder said helium would find the procedures to let that, though it would beryllium successful the courtroom without members of the nationalist oregon property present.

Prosecutor Thomas Binger said they should beryllium capable to presumption immoderate video they wanted arsenic galore times arsenic they wanted, and the justice seemed to agree. “Sometimes determination is 1 portion of grounds that is perfectly critical. … To me, if they privation to ticker it 100 times, that’s them,” Schroeder said.

Defense lawyer Mark Richards said helium would entity to the assemblage viewing video taken by a drone that prosecutors said showed Rittenhouse pointing his weapon astatine protesters earlier the shootings. The representation prompted heated quality earlier successful the proceedings implicit method questions astir whether enlarging images notably changes them.

But earlier that, Schroeder took objection to quality stories astir his decisions to not let the men Rittenhouse changeable to beryllium called victims and to let Rittenhouse to play a insignificant relation successful determining which jurors were alternates, and the information that helium had not yet ruled connected a defence question for a mistrial.

Schroeder said helium hasn’t work the question to disregard due to the fact that helium conscionable received it connected Tuesday.

“It’s conscionable a shame that irresponsible statements are being made,” Schroeder said of comments successful a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel communicative from instrumentality schoolhouse professors astir him not ruling connected the mistrial motion.

The lawsuit went to the anonymous assemblage aft Schroeder allowed Rittenhouse to scope into a raffle drum and gully numbered slips that determined which of the 18 jurors who sat done the lawsuit would deliberate and which ones would beryllium dismissed arsenic alternates.

That task is usually performed by a tribunal clerk, not the defendant. Schroeder has said helium has been having defendants bash it for astatine slightest 20 years.

“I would admit that determination are not a ample fig of courts that bash that, possibly not any,” Schroeder said Wednesday.

The assemblage of 12 deliberated for a afloat time Tuesday without reaching a decision.

Rittenhouse, 18, faces beingness successful situation if convicted connected the astir superior complaint for utilizing an AR-style semi-automatic firearm to termination 2 men and coiled a 3rd during a nighttime of protests against radical injustice successful Kenosha successful the summertime of 2020. The erstwhile constabulary younker cadet is white, arsenic were those helium shot.

Rittenhouse testified helium acted successful self-defense, portion prosecutors argued helium provoked the violence. The lawsuit has go a flashpoint successful the U.S. statement implicit guns, racial-justice protests, vigilantism and instrumentality and order.

The assemblage appeared to beryllium overwhelmingly white. Prospective jurors were not asked to place their contention during the enactment process, and the tribunal did not supply a radical breakdown.

Though protests person been mostly muted astir the courthouse during the trial, connected Wednesday a antheral arrived carrying a agelong firearm and wearing what appeared to beryllium assemblage armor. After being approached by police, helium near and returned a abbreviated clip aboriginal without the gun. The antheral had spent Tuesday shouting anti-Black Lives Matter statements done a megaphone and was progressive successful a confrontation that time with different protester.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, who faced disapproval implicit his effect to the Kenosha protests successful 2020, urged calm arsenic the assemblage deliberated. He announced past week that 500 members of the National Guard would basal acceptable for work successful Kenosha if needed.

Rittenhouse was 17 erstwhile helium went to Kenosha from his location successful Antioch, Illinois, successful what helium said was an effort to support spot from rioters successful the days aft a Black man, Jacob Blake, was changeable by a achromatic Kenosha constabulary officer.

In a fast-moving bid of clashes successful the streets, Rittenhouse changeable and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, present 28.

During closing arguments Monday, authoritative Thomas Binger said that Rittenhouse was a “wannabe soldier” who acceptable the deadly concatenation of events successful question by bringing a firearm to a protestation and pointing it astatine protesters conscionable earlier helium was chased.

But Rittenhouse lawyer Mark Richards countered that Rittenhouse was ambushed by a “crazy person” — Rosenbaum.

Rittenhouse testified that Rosenbaum chased him down and made a drawback for his rifle, causing him to fearfulness the limb was going to beryllium utilized against him. His relationship of Rosenbaum’s behaviour was mostly corroborated by video and immoderate of the prosecution’s ain witnesses.

As for Huber, helium was gunned down aft helium was seen connected video hitting Rittenhouse with a skateboard. And Grosskreutz admitted helium had his ain weapon pointed astatine Rittenhouse erstwhile helium was shot.

In his instructions to the jury, Schroeder said that to judge Rittenhouse’s assertion of self-defense, the jurors indispensable find that helium believed determination was an unlawful menace to him and that the magnitude of unit helium utilized was tenable and necessary.

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Forliti reported from Minneapolis; Bauer from Madison, Wisconsin. Associated Press writer Tammy Webber contributed from Fenton, Michigan.

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