Quote (cambovenzi @ Aug 27 2020 07:12pm)
Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a statement:
its amazing how the charging document actually gives a more biased account and neglects to mention facts that the New York Times covered in their article
https://www.mystateline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/08/Rittenhouse.pdfQuote
The video shows that as they cross the parking lot, Rosenbaum appears to throw an object at the
defendant. The object does not hit the defendant and a second video shows, based on where the
object landed, that it was a plastic bag. Rosenbaum appears to be unarmed for the duration of this
video. A review of the second video shows that the defendant and Rosenbaum continue to move
across the parking lot and approach the front of a black car parked in the lot. A loud bang is heard
on the video, then a male shouts, “Fuck you!”, then Rosenbaum appears to continue to approach
the defendant and gets in near proximity to the defendant when 4 more loud bangs are heard.
Rosenbaum then falls to the ground.
At no point in the charging documents does it point out that the first gunshot is visible on the video, or that Rittenhouse only reacted when that shot was fired.
It acknowledges that there was a 'loud bang' (the gunshot, ~30-50 feet away) followed by someone screaming "Fuck you", and when Rittenhouse turns around Rosenbaum lunges at him and tries to grab his gun that very second
It doesn't offer any explanation as to why he was running or why people were chasing him, but it does acknowledge that multiple people chased him and he was trying to evade them.
So he's got people chasing him, someone fires a shot behind him, someone screams 'fuck you', he turns and there's an enraged guy lunging at him trying to grab his gun.
And that's "reckless homicide"?