WATCH: Prosecutor Says Rittenhouse Should Have Let Mob Attack Him Because ‘Everybody Takes a Beating Sometimes’

[The Purge]

James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, told the jury in a Kenosha, Wisconsin court Monday that the defendant should have let himself be attacked last August because “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”

Kraus was delivering the rebuttal argument, after fellow prosecutor Thomas Binger gave the first closing argument, and defense attorney Mike Richards responded on behalf of Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried throughout the day to argue that Rittenhouse did not have the “privilege” of self-defense, even though he only shot people who had pursued and attacked him, because he had provoked the attack by bringing his rifle to the Black Lives Matter riot near midnight on August 25, 2020.

Accordingly, Kraus argued, Rittenhouse had a duty to retreat — not just before firing his weapon, but before resisting in any physical way. And he added that Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be beaten by members of a mob that both he and Binger had described as “heroes,” concerned citizens acting to stop what they saw as an “active shooter” on the street.

“Mr. Richards misstated the standard [for self-defense],” Kraus argued. “It is not ‘could have caused’ great bodily harm or death. It is not ‘likely’ to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is ‘imminent threat’ of death or great bodily harm.

“Where is that, when you get a couple scrapes? Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?

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Earlier, defense attorney Richards adamantly declared that his client did not have a legal duty to be beaten by a mob:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

So if we go with your argument then the jury should come out of the jury box and beat you senseless because everybody gets a beating sometimes! America has lost its collective minds!

 

[surada]

James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, told the jury in a Kenosha, Wisconsin court Monday that the defendant should have let himself be attacked last August because “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”

Kraus was delivering the rebuttal argument, after fellow prosecutor Thomas Binger gave the first closing argument, and defense attorney Mike Richards responded on behalf of Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried throughout the day to argue that Rittenhouse did not have the “privilege” of self-defense, even though he only shot people who had pursued and attacked him, because he had provoked the attack by bringing his rifle to the Black Lives Matter riot near midnight on August 25, 2020.

Accordingly, Kraus argued, Rittenhouse had a duty to retreat — not just before firing his weapon, but before resisting in any physical way. And he added that Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be beaten by members of a mob that both he and Binger had described as “heroes,” concerned citizens acting to stop what they saw as an “active shooter” on the street.

“Mr. Richards misstated the standard [for self-defense],” Kraus argued. “It is not ‘could have caused’ great bodily harm or death. It is not ‘likely’ to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is ‘imminent threat’ of death or great bodily harm.

“Where is that, when you get a couple scrapes? Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?

[cut]

Earlier, defense attorney Richards adamantly declared that his client did not have a legal duty to be beaten by a mob:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

So if we go with your argument then the jury should come out of the jury box and beat you senseless because everybody gets a beating sometimes! America has lost its collective minds!

You should have listened to the whole closing arguement by Binger.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, told the jury in a Kenosha, Wisconsin court Monday that the defendant should have let himself be attacked last August because “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”

Kraus was delivering the rebuttal argument, after fellow prosecutor Thomas Binger gave the first closing argument, and defense attorney Mike Richards responded on behalf of Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried throughout the day to argue that Rittenhouse did not have the “privilege” of self-defense, even though he only shot people who had pursued and attacked him, because he had provoked the attack by bringing his rifle to the Black Lives Matter riot near midnight on August 25, 2020.

Accordingly, Kraus argued, Rittenhouse had a duty to retreat — not just before firing his weapon, but before resisting in any physical way. And he added that Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be beaten by members of a mob that both he and Binger had described as “heroes,” concerned citizens acting to stop what they saw as an “active shooter” on the street.

“Mr. Richards misstated the standard [for self-defense],” Kraus argued. “It is not ‘could have caused’ great bodily harm or death. It is not ‘likely’ to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is ‘imminent threat’ of death or great bodily harm.

“Where is that, when you get a couple scrapes? Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?

[cut]

Earlier, defense attorney Richards adamantly declared that his client did not have a legal duty to be beaten by a mob:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

So if we go with your argument then the jury should come out of the jury box and beat you senseless because everybody gets a beating sometimes! America has lost its collective minds!

And I suppose a woman being raped should just lie there and shut up because "Everybody gets raped sometimes". And wives should just shut up and take the bruises and broken bones because every husband beats his wife sometimes". And a parent in the park should just let the pedophile child trafficker take her child because "Every child gets kidnapped sometimes".

I wonder how Kraus will feel when he learns that every sleazy leftist prosecutor gets throat punched sometimes.

 

[YoursTruly]

James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, told the jury in a Kenosha, Wisconsin court Monday that the defendant should have let himself be attacked last August because “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”

Kraus was delivering the rebuttal argument, after fellow prosecutor Thomas Binger gave the first closing argument, and defense attorney Mike Richards responded on behalf of Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried throughout the day to argue that Rittenhouse did not have the “privilege” of self-defense, even though he only shot people who had pursued and attacked him, because he had provoked the attack by bringing his rifle to the Black Lives Matter riot near midnight on August 25, 2020.

Accordingly, Kraus argued, Rittenhouse had a duty to retreat — not just before firing his weapon, but before resisting in any physical way. And he added that Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be beaten by members of a mob that both he and Binger had described as “heroes,” concerned citizens acting to stop what they saw as an “active shooter” on the street.

“Mr. Richards misstated the standard [for self-defense],” Kraus argued. “It is not ‘could have caused’ great bodily harm or death. It is not ‘likely’ to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is ‘imminent threat’ of death or great bodily harm.

“Where is that, when you get a couple scrapes? Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?

[cut]

Earlier, defense attorney Richards adamantly declared that his client did not have a legal duty to be beaten by a mob:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

So if we go with your argument then the jury should come out of the jury box and beat you senseless because everybody gets a beating sometimes! America has lost its collective minds!

My guess is, this fat bastard got a lot of beatings in school, college and from his wife.

 

[YoursTruly]

And I suppose a woman being raped should just lie there and shut up because "Everybody gets raped sometimes". And wives should just shut up and take the bruises and broken bones because every husband beats his wife sometimes". And a parent in the park should just let the pedophile child trafficker take her child because "Every child gets kidnapped sometimes".

I wonder how Kraus will feel when he learns that every sleazy leftist prosecutor gets throat punched sometimes.

Did you hear Binger say sarcastically, "Every kid should not get a skateboard for Christmas, because they're a dangerous weapon? Why not just buy them an AR-15?"

I'm not sure what his point was, honestly. It sounded like some BS you'd hear from a moron on a political forum. One of those "know nothing basement Rambo's."

 

[Lisa558]

They are going after the white kid with a vengeance.

Will the trial of the black looter who killed the retired police captain in cold blood (no self-defense there) also be televised?

This is what happens when you excuse black criminals, or worse, treat them like some sort of deity, and crash down hard on whites. The double standards are chilling.

 

[Oddball]

My prediction is that this moronic prosecutor is going to be the one taking the beating.

 

[Yarddog]

And I suppose a woman being raped should just lie there and shut up because "Everybody gets raped sometimes". And wives should just shut up and take the bruises and broken bones because every husband beats his wife sometimes". And a parent in the park should just let the pedophile child trafficker take her child because "Every child gets kidnapped sometimes".

I wonder how Kraus will feel when he learns that every sleazy leftist prosecutor gets throat punched sometimes.

The Moron, lying D.A. is trying to equate the situation with a one on one fight. What an idiot.
He completely ignores that this is in a setting with a mob environment in the middle of the night
with no one to help should you go down. If Rittenhouse allowed himself to be taken down initially
he would have gotten stomped, like the mob tried to do to him later. Again, its also Rittenhouses
perception of this danger that also makes it self defense, not the musings of some jerk who probably was
never in physical danger in his entire life.... then goes ahead and points a rifle at the jury

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

My guess is, this fat bastard got a lot of beatings in school, college and from his wife.

Yeah...but he enjoyed the wife beating him.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

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We all know he has a baby face but the pic of him in the fire department garb makes him look 13.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

We all know he has a baby face but the pic of him in the fire department garb makes him look 13.

Yeah, he is a young-looking guy.

 

[Muhammed]

Yeah...but he enjoyed the wife beating him.

You mean his wife Michael who identifies as a woman?

 

[Muhammed]

We all know he has a baby face but the pic of him in the fire department garb makes him look 13.

Maybe he was 13 in that photo. How long was he an Antioch Firefighter/EMT cadet?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Maybe he was 13 in that photo. How long was he an Antioch Firefighter/EMT cadet?

Dont know but he'd still look the same.
He just has that baby face.
He'll probably look 25 when he's 40.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Did you hear Binger say sarcastically, "Every kid should not get a skateboard for Christmas, because they're a dangerous weapon? Why not just buy them an AR-15?"

I'm not sure what his point was, honestly. It sounded like some BS you'd hear from a moron on a political forum. One of those "know nothing basement Rambo's."

The point was a lame attempt to make the skateboard attack less serious.

 

[Oldestyle]

The point was a lame attempt to make the skateboard attack less serious.

Anarchists have been using skateboards to beat people for the past year. They can do so and claim they weren't wielding a "weapon" yet you get smacked by one of those boards and it's going to put a world of hurt on you. The prosecutor knows that. He's deliberately pretending that anarchist was just out for a night time cruise on his skateboard and got shot by an "active shooter"! It's a crock.

 

[j-mac]

I couldn't believe how dishonest prosecutors were.

 

[freyasman]

I couldn't believe how dishonest prosecutors were.

Yep..... that's why I have had lawyers on retainer for the last decade or so, and a bondsman as well.


Just because you haven't broken any laws, doesn't mean you won't get prosecuted.

 

[bodecea]

James Kraus, one of the prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, told the jury in a Kenosha, Wisconsin court Monday that the defendant should have let himself be attacked last August because “everybody takes a beating sometimes.”

Kraus was delivering the rebuttal argument, after fellow prosecutor Thomas Binger gave the first closing argument, and defense attorney Mike Richards responded on behalf of Rittenhouse. The prosecution tried throughout the day to argue that Rittenhouse did not have the “privilege” of self-defense, even though he only shot people who had pursued and attacked him, because he had provoked the attack by bringing his rifle to the Black Lives Matter riot near midnight on August 25, 2020.

Accordingly, Kraus argued, Rittenhouse had a duty to retreat — not just before firing his weapon, but before resisting in any physical way. And he added that Rittenhouse should have allowed himself to be beaten by members of a mob that both he and Binger had described as “heroes,” concerned citizens acting to stop what they saw as an “active shooter” on the street.

“Mr. Richards misstated the standard [for self-defense],” Kraus argued. “It is not ‘could have caused’ great bodily harm or death. It is not ‘likely’ to have caused great bodily harm or death. It is ‘imminent threat’ of death or great bodily harm.

“Where is that, when you get a couple scrapes? Everybody takes a beating sometimes, right?

[cut]

Earlier, defense attorney Richards adamantly declared that his client did not have a legal duty to be beaten by a mob:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

So if we go with your argument then the jury should come out of the jury box and beat you senseless because everybody gets a beating sometimes! America has lost its collective minds!

How many others were beaten by "the mob" that night?