Video of Kyle Rittenhouse speaking about shooting strangers at a CVS (15 days before murders)

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Evan Rytlewski
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Aug 19, 2021
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Kenosha News has a key detail that the Journal Sentinel left out of its reporting: Rittenhouse wanted to shoot some men outside of CVS because he thought they had shoplifted.

15 days later, he shot three protesters.

State seeks to admit video of Rittenhouse in separate incident threatening to shoot men with AR-15
Two weeks before he shot three people in Kenosha, killing two, Kyle Rittenhouse was captured on video threatening to shoot men he believed were shoplifting at a pharmacy, according to
kenoshanews.com

Evan Rytlewski
@Evanryt
And here’s the video of Kyle Rittenhouse speaking about shooting strangers at a CVS. “Bro I wish I had my (expletive) AR. l'd start shooting rounds at them."

Clear evidence of his intentions to commit violence, 15 days before he did shoot and kill two people.


2:42 PM · Aug 19, 2021

https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/state-seeks-to-admit-video-of-rittenhouse-in-separate-incident-threatening-to-shoot-men-with/article_cddeb29f-5a86-5151-ab20-a3834456304e.html



Two weeks before he shot three people in Kenosha, killing two, Kyle Rittenhouse was captured on video threatening to shoot men he believed were shoplifting at a pharmacy, according to prosecutors.

In the video, according to an “other acts” motion filed by prosecutors this week, a person prosecutors identify as Rittenhouse is on the side of a street, watching several people leaving a CVS Pharmacy. “Bro, I wish I had my (expletive) AR, I’d start shooting rounds at them,” Rittenhouse says, according to the motion.

Rittenhouse is not visible in the video, nor is the person with him. The brief video, shot from across a busy street at night, shows a group of people leaving a CVS carrying bags and loading them into the trunk of a car. “It looks like one of them has a weapon,” the person prosecutors identify as Rittenhouse states. The CVS, which is neighbored by what appears to be a multistory office building, does not appear to be in the Kenosha area.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger is asking that the jury at Rittenhouse’s trial see the video as evidence of Rittenhouse’s state of mind on the night 15 days later on Aug. 25, 2020, when the Antioch teenager came to Kenosha during protests while armed with an AR-15-style rifle and shot three men, killing two.

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1. K&R

[Hoyt]

2. Rittenhouse is as guilty as George Zimmerman. Hope prosecutors prove it to jury.

[rockfordfile]

3. He should be given the death penalty for murder.

[soryang]

4. looks like propensity evidence

i would bar admissibility as legally irrelevant. I would reserve judgement on whether it could be used to rebut a specific defense raised by the defense, if they "open the door. " To get this in on the principal charge to show mens rea without more direct relevance is to open the case to reversal on appeal. imo

[bullwinkle428]

5. Good to hear ADA Mr. Binger intends to introduce this video to the jury.

[crickets]

6. Oh, my. This is a far cry from the human interest stories of the day

that tried to portray him as a kid who "just wanted to help."

[Blue Owl]

7. Remember the pillow guy helped bail mommy's little killer out

[Poiuyt]

8. When is his trial?