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.
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.