Prosecutor: "You don't know, as you are sitting here today, what Mr. Rosenbaum was thinking, do you?"
Richard McGinniss: "Do you mean at the time of the shooting?"
Prosecutor: "Yes".... "Or at any time in his life." You have no idea...what Mr. Rosenbaum was ever thinking"
Richard McGinniss: "I never exchanged words with him, if that's what your question is."
Prosecutor: "So your interpretation of what he was trying to do, or intending to do, or anything along those lines was complete guess work...Isn't it?"
Richard McGinniss: "...Well, he said 'fuck you' and then reached for [his] weapon."
BOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!* This has to be the greatest reply I've heard in such a long time.
Well, he said 'fuck you' and then reached for [his] weapon."
You can't make this shit up. It is so fantastic.
Thanks. Without being able to watch it, why would those questions be directed at a journalist? It seems not to make sense.
The journalist was right there when Rosenbaum died and he was the one who saw the chase leading up to Rittenhouse turning and shooting Rosenbaum in self defense. Rittenhouse hasn’t been on the stand and likely will not be.
Why won’t he be on the stand?
Well we have this thing, the 5th amendment, that prevents you from being compelled to testify against yourself.
Prosecutor usually wouldn't call defendant as a witness because they can just not answer any questions and then the defense could ask them whatever questions they wanted to help their case.
He should never, in any circumstance, go upon that stand.
Unless it’s in the 100% opposite direction than it is right now. I’m hoping it will never get to that.
You don't need a weapon to kill someone. And he was trying to get Kyles weapon when he got shot.
It's misattributed above in that Rittenhouse is not the witness. It, by the ADA (prosecutor above) repeatedly established in the same questioning that Rosenbaum had no weapon.
The [his] above is not stated as "his" but as "Mr. Rittenhouse"
It should also be noted that McGinnis is a witness called specifically by the PROSECUTOR to build the state's case. This, among other parts, has not gone well for the ADA.
No we know he will not. As an attorney i can tell you you never let your client testify in a murder trial unless you have almost no real defense and you need a hail mary.
Why? Because if you have a decent defense there is very little to gain and a TON to lose by putting up there.
I believe there is video or photo showing rosenbaum with a heavy chain. Not a firearm, but a weapon.
You should edit your post to reflect this correction.
Done.