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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse instigated the confrontation that led him to shoot three people on the streets of Kenosha during a turbulent protest against racial injustice, and he killed one of the victims with a shot to the back, a prosecutor told the jury during opening statements Tuesday at Rittenhouse’s murder trial.
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But Rittenhouse’s attorney said his client was kicked and hit with a skateboard that night and acted in self-defense, telling the jury it will “end up looking at it from the standpoint of a 17-year-old under the circumstances as they existed.”
Rittenhouse, now 18, is charged with killing two men and wounding a third during the summer of 2020 with an assault-style rifle. He could get life in prison if convicted.
The one-time aspiring police officer traveled to Kenosha from his home in Illinois, just across the Wisconsin state line, after protests broke out over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, in the back by a white Kenosha police officer.
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