The prosecutor noted that Lackowski never used his gun that night. Rosenbaum had been struggling with homelessness and mental illness at the time he was killed, The Washington Post reported last year.Īt one point, Lackowski testified, he ran toward the sound of gunfire and encountered Rittenhouse - who appeared “ frazzled, in shock” and was still armed - running away. “After he had done that a few times I turned my back to him and ignored him,” Lackowski added.Īsked if he considered Rosenbaum a threat, Lackowski responded: “No.” He called Rosenbaum a “ babbling idiot.” Rosenbaum asked Lackowski “very bluntly to shoot him” and did “false stepping … to entice somebody to do something,” Lackowski testified. Lackowski said Rosenbaum was acting “very belligerently,” but he didn’t believe he posed a threat, CNN reported. Rittenhouse’s attorneys have claimed that he fired his semiautomatic rifle at Rosenbaum, who was unarmed, because he felt threatened.
Rittenhouse later fatally shot a second man and injured a third, and is now standing trial for intentional homicide and related charges. One of the men shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin was an “idiot,” but not a threat, testified a witness who, like Rittenhouse, had also showed up to that night’s protest packing an AR-15-style rifle.įormer Marine Jason Lackowski was with Rittenhouse during the August night last year shortly before Rittenhouse, then 17, fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, during demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after the police shooting of Black resident Jacob Blake.
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