The unrest in Kenosha erupted after a white policeman shot and seriously wounded Jacob Blake, a Black man. Only one person shot anyone that night," Binger said.
"Yet out of these hundreds of people, only one person killed anyone that night. He repeated seven times in his opening statement that the teenager was the only person to have shot anyone on a night when hundreds of protesters had taken to the streets, some peacefully and others engaged in arson, looting and rioting. In contrast, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger painted Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, as the aggressor. A third man was armed with a handgun, Richards said, and was part of a mob that "attacked him in the street like an animal."
In his opening statement, defense attorney Mark Richards stressed that two of the men whom Rittenhouse shot had reached for his rifle, causing the teen to fear it would be used on him.
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