Kyle Rittenhouse brought a semi-automatic weapon to a protest to menace others, provoked bloodshed in the streets, and after the shooting, walked off like a “hero in a Western,” a prosecutor said during closing arguments in his murder trial.But Rittenhouse’s lawyer on Monday countered that argument, saying that the shooting started after the young man was ambushed by a “crazy person” that night and became afraid his gun was going to be wrested away and used to kill him.Rittenhouse was 17 when he killed two men and wounded a third during a tumultuous night of protests against racial injustice in August of 2020, which erupted in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer who knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes as Floyd pleaded “I can’t breathe.”
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