If there's one thing in common in most of the attention-attracting televised trials of use-of-force tactics during police confrontation incidents and public protests, it's the use of guns, rifles and ammunition.
That is the common denominator for the deaths in violence on the streets. The tactics used are a direct result of private-contractors used in external wars hired-to-train domestic municipal police forces, 'civilian warriors' and para--military militias.
Jury watches drone footage of Kyle Rittenhouse shooting man dead
Teenager shot Joseph Rosenbaum four times at close range including once in the back during Kenosha protest
James Armstrong, a photographic expert in the Wisconsin State Crime Lab, testifies about drone video during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. Photograph: Reuters
Last modified on Tue 9 Nov 2021 14.09 EST
"The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial on Tuesday watched drone footage that showed Rittenhouse shooting Joseph Rosenbaum at close range during a night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August.
The video, zoomed in and slowed down by a forensic imaging specialist, was played as the prosecution finished presenting its case, after a week of testimony in which some witnesses seemed to bolster Rittenhouse’s claim of self-defense.
> Rittenhouse is a former police youth cadet from Antioch, Illinois. On the night in question he went to Kenosha with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle and a medical kit, in response to a militia that called for protection for businesses against protesters supporting the Black Lives Matter movement .
> The 18-year-old is charged with two counts of homicide, one of attempted homicide and two of recklessly endangering safety, for firing his weapon near others.
> He is also charged with possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor, as he was 17 at the time. He has pleaded not guilty.
[. . .] A Kenosha detective, Ben Antaramian, testified that authorities learned someone had recorded drone video, which played on Fox News, but were not given a high-definition version until Friday.
[. . .] In the highly contentious trial, prosecutors have portrayed Rittenhouse as the instigator of bloodshed.
“The evidence will show that hundreds of people were out on the street experiencing chaos and violence and the only person who killed anyone was the defendant, Kyle Rittenhouse,” Thomas Binger, Kenosha county assistant district attorney, said last week.
Rittenhouse’s lawyers have said he acted in self-defense, suggesting he feared his rifle would be used against him. Rittenhouse’s lead lawyer,
Mark Richards, said: “Other individuals who didn’t see [the Rosenbaum shooting] attacked [Rittenhouse] in the street like an animal.”
The trial continues.
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