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Why would anyone ask Rittenhouse for medical while he is armed? (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Nov 2021
OP
He was forced to admit during cross the stuff about the fire department was not true.
sop
Nov 2021
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madaboutharry
(42,028 posts)1. What does a teenage kid know about giving medical aid?
Has this been addressed?
sop
(17,578 posts)4. Yes, it has. He has no medical training whatsoever.
He received some training from his fire department cadet stuff, and he was a lifeguard at a YMCA.
The question they're working on is that Rittenhouse claimed he was an EMT when at the protest. He was not an EMT in any way.
He had received first aid training, though.
sop
(17,578 posts)9. He was forced to admit during cross the stuff about the fire department was not true.
The kid has a rich imagination.
Yarnie
(90 posts)6. His earlier testimony
is that he had some First Aid training through his local fire department. I think he also said he was in the Explorers.
sop
(17,578 posts)8. He claimed that, but during cross examination he admitted he had never actually been a "cadet"
in the fire department, had never received any formal EMT or other medical training. He said worked as a "lifeguard" at a pool for several weeks.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)2. Rittenhouse testimony seems to be conflicting.
dem4decades
(13,735 posts)3. And putting out fires, remember he always says both.
It's great the prosecution can cross examine him but unfortunate the Judge won't let them ask any questions.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)5. Without a fire extinguisher?
sop
(17,578 posts)10. One can put out a fire with an AR15. I thought everyone knew that.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)11. Oh I forgot. Firefighters don't need fire engines anymore.