The prosecutor just asked him if he was inspired by “first person shooter videogames” where “the objective is to kill as many people as possible”
He’s 100% getting away with it.
:agony-consuming:
EDIT: his testimony continues, new link here: https://youtu.be/YfrUopNUSIk
EDIT 2: The judge just denied the admission of a key prosecution video exhibit because "pinching and zooming on an ipad inserts extra pixels" and he won't allow the exhibit unless the prosecution can find an expert witness to testify that it won't corrupt the image. He's given him 20 minutes to find such a witness
This trial is doing a fucking extremely frustrating job of painting people who will take up arms to protect someone else's property in another city/state as normal rational people and the people who would take to the streets and burn some cars after yet another Black person is shot by the police as extremist loons.
I'd say that is a perspective held by 85%+ of US citizens across class and all other boundaries unfortunately...
If the b.s. on my Facebook feed was any indication... yeah...
Yeah the justifiable murder fantasy is pretty well baked into the American identity for obvious historical reasons. It's just frustrating that even I'm watching these witnesses who were with Rittenhouse and I'm having a hard time seeing the standard American juror seeing them as unreasonable. Except for the photography guy who was clearly weird and biased. But everyone knows someone like this, who would leap at the perceived chance to kill a looter, etc. and when they aren't under oath/on national TV, they sound as unhinged as the actual prospect of killing someone in cold blood actually is.