Witness testifies man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse had a loaded gun

A witness of the Kyle Rittenhouse capturing in attendance on the listening to gave testimony on the trial at present, revealing that one of many folks chasing after Rittenhouse, who was 17 on the time, had his personal firearm able to go.

It’s the tip of the primary week of the Rittenhouse trial as a courtroom decides whether or not or not he acted in self-defense that night, amidst different claims about public security and firearms possession.

After Rittenhouse had killed each Haber and Rosenbaum, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz, Jason Lackowski was one of many individuals who helped are inclined to Gaige’s accidents by making use of a tourniquet. He additional testified that there have been bullets in Grosskreutz’s handgun when he emptied the chamber.

As detailed by the Daily Wire, Rittenhouse’s protection attorneys additionally obtained Jason Lackowski to confess that he heard one of many protesters that night time shout “Get him!”

The witness went with a fellow navy veteran to Kenosha on the night time of the incident to guard native enterprise.

Nowhere within the ABC News protection does this get introduced up. Lackowski’s characterization of the testimony as a substitute focuses on how he personally didn’t see Joseph Rosenbaum as a menace. The former Marine noticed Rosenbaum as a “babbling idiot” with how he acted that night.

After Lacowski, the prosecution introduced ahead the nice aunt of Anthony Huber (the skateboard wielder) in an try to introduce character witnesses into the trial. Judge Bruce Schroeder had to intervene and lead the jury out of the room whereas each the prosecution and the protection deliberated on whether or not this line of questioning was permissible.

The prosecution said their intent was to indicate Huber was making an attempt to be heroic, quite than an aggressor. Judge Schroeder’s determination boiled right down to saying if he allowed the state to go that route, the protection would’ve been allowed to introduce Anthony Huber’s prison background.

It led the prosecution to withdraw that line of questioning.

After that, Rosenbaum’s fiancée Kariann Swart was introduced as much as the stand. Since her preliminary testimony introduced up the actual fact Joseph was on treatment, the protection was allowed to inquire from Swart additional about Rosenbaum’s bipolar dysfunction and melancholy therapy.