The defense asked Grosskreutz if he filed a notice of claim seeking $10 million against the city and he said yes. Grosskreutz responded, “That is correct.” “The only information you forgot puts you with a gun directly in front of him (Rittenhouse),” said the defense attorney. The defense said he remembered other details in the police interview, such as what Rittenhouse was wearing. Grosskreutz said he worried for his safety. The defense pointed out he made a conscious decision not to say what he did for work. He said that he had just gotten surgery and was traumatized and on paid meds. But when the defense asked, of his comments to the police right after the shooting, “You omitted you ran up on him and had a Glock pistol in your hand,” and Grosskreutz said yes. He denied he was “chasing” Rittenhouse with his gun out. You told that to multiple officers (about it falling off his waist).” Grosskreutz responded, “I don’t know.” “That’s a lie,” said the defense attorney. On cross examination, the defense attorney said Grosskreutz that he told police his gun fell off his waist. He did reveal that he was carrying a gun despite having an expired concealed carry permit. Rittenhouse must convince jurors he reasonably believed his life or that of another was in imminent danger or they were in danger of great bodily harm.Īsked by the prosecutor why he didn’t shoot Rittenhouse first, Grosskreutz said he is “not that kind of person.” Under Wisconsin law, though, the legal test for self-defense is what was in Rittenhouse’s mind at that moment, not Grosskreutz’s. “I was never trying to kill the defendant,” Grosskreutz testified. He was trying to “do something to prevent myself from being killed and shot.” He said Huber had “just tried wrestling the gun” from Rittenhouse. He said he was “closing the distance between the defendant and I,” when Rittenhouse shot him. He said Rittenhouse tried to fire while his hands were up but it didn’t work, so he reracked his gun. He said, “I was very close to the defendant and I thought that was a high likelihood I would be shot myself.” He said that he approached Rittenhouse with a gun and cell phone in his hands and put his hands up. Right?”ĭefense: “It wasn’t until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him with your gun, now your hands down, pointed at him, that he fired, right?”Īnother man had also rushed Rittenhouse before Huber moved into the scene.Īsked what was going through his mind, Grosskreutz testified, “that I was going to die.” Grosskreutz: “That looks like my bicep being vaporized yes.”ĭefense: “It’s being vaporized because you’re pointing a gun directly at him, yes?”ĭefense: “When you’re standing 3-5 feet from him with your arms up in the air he never fired. Rittenhouse, that’s when he fires his gun, yes?ĭefense: “Sir, look…Does this look like right now your arm is being shot?” Rittenhouse correct?”ĭefense: “Once your firearm is pointed at Mr. He thought Rittenhouse was an “active shooter.”īut this is arguably the most important moment from his testimony:ĭefense attorney: “You would agree your firearm is pointed at Mr. That’s when Grosskreutz approached him.ĭuring testimony, on November 8, 2021, Grosskreutz described how he heard gunshots. At that point, Anthony Huber rushed Rittenhouse and hit him with a skateboard and, according to photo and video evidence, touched Rittenhouse’s gun. Prosecutors tried to establish that it was possible Rosenbaum was falling from being shot, not lunging, but McGinniss pushed back at that characterization.Īfter shooting Rosenbaum, Rittenhouse ran down the street, testimony says toward police, and fell. Rosenbaum was unarmed, but Rittenhouse’s team is trying to convince jurors that he posed a threat to Rittenhouse because he was seeking to disarm him. Witness Richie McGinniss, a video editor with the Daily Caller, previously testified that Rosenbaum was lunging for, and trying to get, Rittenhouse’s gun from close proximity, when Rittenhouse shot and killed him. Video and testimony in the trial shows that Rosenbaum was chasing Rittenhouse, cornering him near cars in a parking lot. Grosskreutz was taking part in the protests/riots in Kenosha that night when Rittenhouse shot and killed Rosenbaum. Vivid and graphic photos captured the scene that night in August 2020. Anthony Huber has already been shot at this point. GettyIn this photo, Gaige Grosskreutz approaches Rittenhouse.
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