[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by Mayer

Defence doesn't need to "spin" the self-defence argument. It's all over the hours of video that have been submitted as evidence. It's pretty clear and if his intent was to go down and shoot some rioters, then he wouldn't have been running away. As I've said, dumb decision to go in the first place but the State hasn't provided any evidence or testimony that speaks to their fantasy that he intended to go kill some rioters.

https://youtu.be/DpDZJ_dPxYo

At about the 1 minute mark it shows clips of him asking if anyone needs medical. There are also several other videos from different sources and from various time periods throughout the night.

Come on, you can't be serious. The independent journalist McGuinnis even stated, "The way he was describing what his role was, seemed very detached from the way he was being perceived. And that's what I mean when I say he seemed very naive."

His "job" was not to protect anything or provide medical attention. He was not trained nor capable of doing either. He was a high school student, not a trained individual in emergency medicine, or a trained professional in physical security or protective services.

His calls for "anyone need medical" are completely ignored by the crowd, and for good reason. Again, no evidence of him providing medical assistance to anyone exists, because he didn't, nor was capable of doing so.

Lt. Gov Barnes comments rang true. "Rittenhouse was from out of state. Who was he accountable to? Nobody." He had no right to be there any more than Proud Boys from out of state should be in Portland making a mess of those protests and causing civil unrest.

Here's the problem, though. With all the hours of video footage of this event, no footage shows Rittenhouse re-racking his rifle after a misfire. Grosskreutz was the only person who testified that he saw that, however, the Crime scene unit found no unspent rounds at the scene, which would be there if what Grosskreutz testified to happened. Is it possible someone picked up that round in all the chaos? Possible, I suppose, but again, no video footage. Defence was smart in bringing this up and calling the officer who seized the exhibits onto the stand.

An FTF is unlikely to eject an unspent round. The FTF on the AR15 usually is a result of a round hanging in the magazine and not making it into the chamber. Pulling back on the charging handle and hitting the bolt release will normally chamber a round. No ejection of anything, so there would be nothing to pick up. Defense was counting on people on the jury not understanding how the weapons platform works and falling for a red herring.

It's also hard to trust anything Grosskreutz says at this point. His interviews since his testimony have been very different than what he said on the stand. I suppose even he knew he couldn't lie under oath.

Grosskreutz's first testimony was while he was in recovery after surgery, so that can explain the variation in his story. Yes, the variation is concerning, but it is consistent with the video and stills, especially if you've been through weapons training. But we should discount what the victim says and instead believe the accused, even though he has been less than truthful himself through out this whole mess, including on the video source you provided above?