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Julie Bosman @juliebosman
Testimony is resuming after the break. The courtroom is noticeably fuller today, with at least a dozen members of the community and friends of Anthony Huber in the gallery. — PolitiTweet.org
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The prosecutor chooses this moment to take a break, and the jury leaves the courtroom. — PolitiTweet.org
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The prosecutor warns the jury that what they are about to see -- evidence from after Rittenhouse shot Grosskreutz -- is extremely graphic. In a video shown to the jury, Grosskreutz's arm is mangled and bloody, a large chunk of his right bicep missing. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
"Why didn't you take your own gun and shoot the defendant first?" the prosecutor says. "That's not the kind of person I am," Grosskreutz says. "That's not why I was out there." He adds that he has spent his life providing medical care for people. — PolitiTweet.org
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Sidenote: several members of the jury are intently scribbling notes between watching video clips of the step-by-step actions of Rittenhouse and Grosskreutz. — PolitiTweet.org
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"I was never trying to kill the defendant," Grosskreutz says. "In that moment, I was trying to preserve my own life." — PolitiTweet.org
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"What did you think was going to happen?" the prosecutor says. "I inferred that the defendant wasn't accepting my surrender," Grosskreutz says. He decided he would have to close the distance between himself and Rittenhouse, he says. — PolitiTweet.org
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Grosskreutz describes the moment when he put his hands in the air, facing Rittenhouse, who is on the ground. He says that he watched as Rittenhouse re-racked his rifle. — PolitiTweet.org
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Grosskreutz refers to Rittenhouse as "murdering" Anthony Huber, and the judge launches into a long explanation about how it is for the jury to decide whether it was murder. — PolitiTweet.org
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"What was going through your mind at this particular moment?" the prosecutor asks. "That I was going to die," Grosskreutz says. — PolitiTweet.org
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“If I had to," Grosskreutz says. "I didn't draw my firearm with the express intent of using it. But also being ready if I had to use it.” — PolitiTweet.org
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In these chaotic seconds, Grosskreutz removed his pistol from its holster at the small of his back. "Were you intending to use it?" the prosecutor asks. — PolitiTweet.org
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”I thought that the defendant was an active shooter,” Grosskreutz says. — PolitiTweet.org
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In the video, Grosskreutz turned away from Rittenhouse and kept moving in the direction of the gunfire. "At that moment, the only thing I was concerned about was finding this person who had been shot," he says in court. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
"I'm going to the police," Rittenhouse is heard telling Grosskreutz on the video. — PolitiTweet.org
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The jury is seeing Grosskreutz's shaky livestream video. Grosskreutz confronts Rittenhouse, who is jogging down the street with his rifle. "Hey, what are you doing? You shot somebody? Who's shot?" Grosskreutz asks Rittenhouse. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
Grosskreutz is describing the moment when he heard gunshots and saw people running down the street, away from the gunfire. He started running in the direction of the shots, southbound down Sheridan Road, past a cellphone store and barbershop. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
Grosskreutz was livestreaming on Facebook that night. The prosecutor just played a video clip from his livestream, when protesters were shouting at vigilantes guarding the Car Source. He says he doesn't recall anyone making any threats. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
The fact that Grosskreutz carried a gun is a reminder that many people in the crowd on Aug. 25, 2020 were armed -- both protesters and vigilantes. — PolitiTweet.org
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Grosskreutz treated about 10 people the night of Aug. 25, he says, including a woman who was hurt by a rubber bullet fired by police. Tom Binger, the prosecutor, points out the window of the courtroom to indicate that this was all happening at the park outside the courthouse. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
On to the night of Aug. 25, 2020. Grosskreutz explains that he came to Kenosha alone with the intention to help people who were injured. He wore a blue hat that ID'd him as a medic, brought medical supplies, and his Glock. This was his routine: "Keys, phone, wallet, gun." — PolitiTweet.org
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Grosskreutz is describing how he joined demonstrations in Milwaukee in the days after George Floyd's death. "What I was specifically doing was just being in attendance," he said. These were nonviolent protests that occurred during the day, he said. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
Grosskreutz, a paramedic from West Allis, a Milwaukee suburb, was shot in the arm by Rittenhouse. Grosskreutz was holding a handgun, pointed in the air, when Rittenhouse shot him from a short distance away. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
Day six of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial begins in Kenosha, Wis. this morning. The first witness is Gaige Grosskreutz, 28, the third person who was shot by Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2020, and the only one who survived. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @NYTScience: Scientists confirmed that deer in Iowa carry the coronavirus, and that they likely got it from people. The findings have tr… — PolitiTweet.org
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The owners of Car Source in Kenosha are denying that they asked Kyle Rittenhouse and other armed men to protect their businesses the night of Aug. 25. — PolitiTweet.org
Sierra Gillespie @sierragillespie
The state calls Anmol Khindri to the stand. He works for Car Source, his father's business. He is the brother to th… https://t.co/8zRd5eiKr6
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
Time to add "Aaron Rodgers" to the ol' muted words list — PolitiTweet.org
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Lackowski insists that he never felt threatened by Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man that Rittenhouse shot. The defense has tried to emphasize throughout this trial that Rosenbaum's behavior was erratic and physically hostile that night. — PolitiTweet.org
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Defense lawyer, Chirafisi, is now questioning Lackowski. Lackowski says that Rittenhouse was out helping people that night and that he didn't see Rittenhouse acting aggressively toward anyone. — PolitiTweet.org
Julie Bosman @juliebosman
Lackowski saw Gaige Grosskreutz, the third man Rittenhouse shot -- Grosskreutz was screaming on the ground, asking for a tourniquet. Lackowski helped apply the tourniquet and waited with Grosskreutz until police arrived. — PolitiTweet.org
