Witness in Kyle Rittenhouse trial says first shooting victim acted 'belligerently'
CNN
The first man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during protests in Wisconsin acted "belligerently" and asked to be shot but was not perceived as a serious threat, a former Marine testified Friday.
The testimony of Jason Lackowski, the state's seventh witness, came after a second juror in Rittenhouse's homicide trial was dismissed in as many days due to her pregnancy.
A juror was removed Thursday for telling a joke to a deputy earlier this week about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old Black man whose wounding in August 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, sparked the volatile unrest during which Rittenhouse, then 17, killed two men and wounded another.
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