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Kyle Rittenhouse looks to the assemblage arsenic Dr. Doug Kelley, a forensic pathologist with the Milwaukee County testifies astir the autopsy helium performed connected Anthony Huber, during Rittenhouse's proceedings astatine the Kenosha County Courthouse successful Kenosha, Wis., connected Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Rittenhouse is accused of sidesplitting 2 radical and wounding a 3rd during a protestation implicit constabulary brutality successful Kenosha, past year. (Mark Hertzberg /Pool Photo via AP)

KENOSHA, Wis. – Kyle Rittenhouse took the basal astatine his proceedings Wednesday connected charges of sidesplitting 2 men and wounding a 3rd during a nighttime of turbulent protests, responding nary erstwhile asked by his lawyer whether helium came to Kenosha looking for trouble.

The erstwhile constabulary younker cadet was 17 erstwhile helium went to Kenosha during the summertime of 2020 with an AR-style semi-automatic firearm and a aesculapian kit successful what helium has said was an effort to safeguard spot from the damaging protests that broke retired implicit the wounding of a Black antheral by a achromatic Kenosha constabulary officer.

Prosecutors utilized 5½ days of grounds to effort to represent Rittenhouse arsenic the aggressor connected the nighttime of the shootings. But the prosecution’s witnesses often bolstered the young man’s assertion of self-defense.

Rittenhouse’s determination to attest came contempt respective ineligible experts saying that an underwhelming prosecution lawsuit had made it little apt helium would request to bash so.

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Rittenhouse, present 18, could get beingness successful situation if convicted of the astir superior complaint against him.

Rittenhouse changeable and killed 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum astatine adjacent range. Then, arsenic members of the assemblage acceptable upon him, helium killed Anthony Huber, a 26-year-old protester seen connected video clubbing Rittenhouse with a skateboard.

Rittenhouse past wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, a 27-year-old protester and unpaid medic who admitted pointing his ain weapon astatine Rittenhouse conscionable earlier helium was shot.

While Rittenhouse is white, arsenic were those helium shot, the lawsuit has stirred statement implicit vigilantism, the close to carnivore arms and the unrest that erupted astir the U.S. that summertime implicit the sidesplitting of George Floyd and different constabulary unit against Black people.

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

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