The prosecution in the Kyle Rittenhouse case accused the teenager of being “too cowardly to use his own fists” when an enraged rioter and subsequent mob attacked him.
During the rebuttal on Monday, shortly after the Rittenhouse defense offered the jury its closing arguments, Assistant District Attorney James Kraus repeated lead prosecutor Thomas Binger’s line that Rittenhouse unfairly brought a gun to a fistfight:
Clearly, if there is a provocation, he is guilty. But even outside of provocation, why do you get to immediately just start shooting. As Mr. Binger said, he brought a gun to a fistfight and he was too cowardly to use his own fists to fight his way out. He has to start shooting.
Kraus had followed up on a previous line of argumentation from Thomas Binger, who lit up the internet when he employed an image from the 1980s Patrick Swayze movie Road House:
Let’s assume for a minute, yeah, Joseph Rosenbaum is chasing after the defendant because he wants to do some physical harm to him. He’s an unarmed man. This is a bar fight. This is a fistfight. This is a fight that maybe many of you have been involved in. Two people. Hand to hand. Who are throwing punches or pushing or shoving or whatever.“But what you don’t do, is you don’t bring a gun to a fistfight,” Binger added.
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5 comments:
Since WHEN did rioters ever fight ANYBODY one on one. It is ALWAYS multiple Rioters on a single individual
I wonder how Fatlock would respond if I challenge him to a no holds barred cage match. Too chicken to use your hands when someone else decides to challenge YOU?
Oh, and keep in mind that many people die each year in "fist fights". They are hardly benign events, especially for the smaller and less trained. Is he REALLY suggesting that a 17 year old kid should be forced to "fist fight" against adult men?
If that's the standard I know a retired Green Beret and a retired Army Ranger Instructor and a tenth degree blackbelt professor of jujitsu who would like to challenge you.
When Rosenbaum grabbed Kyle's rifle he was armed.
3 against 1.
Why Sam Colt was a universal favorite.
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