I took off the Black Lives Matter t-shirt I chose that night to blend in with the crowd and used it to stanch the wounds on the first shooting victim: Joseph Rosenbaum.
"It's gonna be okay, bro," I told Rosenbaum. "We're gonna have a beer after this and laugh about it."
It was hard to hear my voice over the sounds of Rosenbaum struggling to breathe and gargling blood instead.
I arrived at the scene of the shooting. I tried to retrace my steps. There was no memorial for Rosenbaum or Huber.
former American suspect in the killing of two rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Kyle Rittenhouse, (born January 3, 2003) from Antioch, Illinois, who on August 25, 2020, amid the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot and killed two men (Joseph D. Rosenbaum and Anthony M. Huber) and wounded another (Gaige Grosskreutz) in self defense. He was armed with an AR-15 style rifle, while the individual wounded by Rittenhouse was armed with a Glock handgun. Rittenhouse stated that he was in Kenosha to protect a car dealership from vandalism and to provide medical aid. Rittenhouse's trial took place between November 1 and 19, 2021. The judge dismissed an unlawful weapon possession charge and a curfew violation charge and on November 19, 2021 the jury found Rittenhouse unanimously not guilty of all charges.
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We just spent a lot of time talking, getting to know one another, and laughing and joking around. He was a very animated person like that.
He wasn’t down there as a rioter or a looter
Why was he there? I have no answer. I ask myself that question every day.
I did explain to him that things had gotten bad the last few days because he was not in town and did tell him explicitly not to go downtown.
There was the mark where Joe had been laying.
I put my hand in it, and my hand was wet with his blood and that’s when, again, I collapsed on the ground.
This case has nothing to do with race.
It never had anything to do with race.
It had to do with the right to self-defense.
I'm not a racist person.
I support the BLM movement.
I support peacefully demonstrating.
I believe there needs to be change.
I believe there’s a lot of prosecutorial misconduct, not just in my case but in other cases.
It's just amazing to see how much a prosecutor can take advantage of someone.
As I’m walking down Sheridan Road, I hear somebody scream, “Burn in hell.” And I reply with, “Friendly, friendly, friendly.” To let them know, hey, I’m just here to help. I don’t want any problems. I just want to put out the fires if there are any. I continue walking and then I notice the Duramax, I notice a flame in the back seat of the Duramax and I stepped towards the Duramax and as I’m stepping forward, I believe his name is now Joshua Ziminski, he steps towards me with a pistol in his hand. As I’m walking towards to put out the fire, I drop the fire extinguisher and I take a step back.
My plan is to get out of that situation and go back north down Sheridan Road to where the Car Source lot number two was.
Once I take that step back, I look over my shoulder and Mr. Rosenbaum was now running from my right side and I was cornered from, in front of me with Mr. Ziminski and there were three people right there.