Prosecutor: Kyle Rittenhouse Lost His Right to Self Defense When He Brought a Gun to a Riot

By Scott Bauer, Michael Tarm and Amy Forliti, AP

Kyle Rittenhouse provoked the bloodshed on the streets of Kenosha by bringing a semi-automatic rifle and menacing others, and when the shooting stopped, he walked away like a “hero in a Western,” a prosecutor said in closing arguments Monday at Rittenhouse’s murder trial.

“You lose the right to self-defense when you’re the one who brought the gun, when you are the one creating the danger, when you’re the one provoking other people,” Thomas Binger told the jury.

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