A juror in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was dismissed on Thursday for telling a joke to a deputy at the courthouse a day earlier.
This from dailywire.com.
And it wasn’t just any joke. This juror must have had somewhere else more important to be.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger told the court that his understanding of the joke was that it went something like, “Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake seven times? Because they ran out of bullets.”
Blake, a black man, was left paralyzed after he was shot seven times by a white Kenosha police officer in August of last year. The city devolved into rioting over the police shooting, during which Rittenhouse came to Kenosha with his gun to protect local businesses and ended up shooting three men.
On Thursday, the trial entered its third day of testimony.
Due to McGinniss’ heavy presence in the first half of the shootings, he is a key witness in the trial.
Being questioned by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, McGinniss said Rosenbaum was chasing Rittenhouse, further undercutting Binger’s opening argument, and Rosenbaum was in fact lunging for Rittenhouse’s AR-15 when Rittenhouse’s avenues of escape were cut off in the car lot and a handgun was fired.
Binger tried to nail down McGinniss by pointing out he had said during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson Rosenbaum was falling down before Rittenhouse shot him with his rifle. McGinniss said lunging was a more applicable term and saying falling down was not a contradiction.
“Because [Rosenbaum] lunged and then the shot was fired as he was lunging. It was like, I guess, perhaps it was the shots that caused him to then, rather than stopping himself, just fall flat,” McGinniss said.
“That’s not what you said,” Binger replied and again played the clip of McGinniss saying falling down during the Carlson interview.
“I don’t see why that’s inconsistent with what I’m saying right now. He was lunging, falling, I would use those as synonymous terms in this situation because, basically, he threw his momentum towards the weapon and when the weapon wasn’t there, his momentum was continuing and that’s the point at which [Rittenhouse] fired,” McGinniss said.
Binger suggested to McGinnis that Rosenbaum was falling when Rittenhouse shot him, based on a live interview McGinnis had days after the shooting with Tucker Carlson.
This exchange went on and on until the judge put an end to Binger bullying the witness.
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Before ending his second line of questioning, Binger pressed McGinniss to get him to admit he did not know 100% what Rosenbaum was thinking when he chased after Rittenhouse and tried to reach for the rifle.
McGinniss said he knows for a fact Rosenbaum said “f*ck you” and reached for the front portion of the AR-15.
There is obviously a lesson to be learned here. Rosenbaum has run out of time to apply that lesson, however, the rest of us have been reminded not to try to take someone else’s tools without permission.
