"State files two new motions in Rittenhouse case: to get donor names, and use new video Bruce Vielmetti Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

As he watches some men exit a CVS store across the street, Kyle Rittenhouse can be heard saying that he wished he had his rifle so he could shoot them.

At least that's what prosecutors say is going on in the short video formerly posted on YouTube. It's part of a motion they filed to use the 29-second clip as "other acts" evidence in Rittenhouse's trial on charges he fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third during protests in Kenosha last August.

The clip, taken 15 days earlier, appears to be taken by Rittenhouse or someone with him in a car, in the evening, parked across the street from a CVS store. You can see people inside, and a Black man as he jogs out of the store.

A voice that sounds like Rittenhouse says one of the men appears to be armed. Then, he says, ""Bro I wish I had my (expletive) AR. l'd start shooting rounds at them."

In an affidavit accompanying the motion, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger says his office obtained the video last week. It does not say how or from whom.

The motion notes Rittenhouse had no personal interaction with anyone at the CVS store.

Kyle Rittenhouse arrives in Kenosha County Circuit Court on Friday, May 21, 2021.

"Quite simply, the defendant saw something, jumped to a conclusion based on exactly zero facts, and then threatened to kill someone based on his baseless assumption and wrongful interpretation," the motion reads.

"The defendant’s understanding of the proper use of his “AR” and of deadly force is crucial to this case, and this video demonstrates that the defendant was eager to use deadly force in an unlawful situation."

Binger says the video is relevant to show Rittenshouse's state of mind when he fired the shots on Aug. 25, a crucial element to his self-defense claim.

"The video also demonstrates that the defendant fervently sought to insert himself as an armed vigilante into situations that had nothing to do with him. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the video proves that the defendant was ready and willing to use deadly force in a situation where it was completely unjustified."

Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger

In a second motion, Binger asks Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder to compel Rittenhouse to turn over the names of anyone who has donated to his legal defense, $2 million bail or purchased "Free Kyle" merchandise through his family's web site.

Those people, he argues, should not be allowed to serve on the jury for Rittenhouse's trial, currently scheduled for Nov. 1.

Binger said it would be fine if a master list were given only to Schroeder, and then if only names from Kenosha County were shared with the prosecution, which he said might want to further investigate whether those people or family or associates wind up in the pool of potential jurors.

Almost immediately after Rittenhouse, then 17, was charged in the Kenosha shootings, he became a cause célèbre among some conservatives and gun rights advocates and money flowed in from around the country.

Much of it went to the #FightBack Foundation, a Texas organization his then-lawyers Lin Wood and John Pierce had formed just two weeks prior to supposedly sue news media outlets. Wood later left the defense, and after the family fired Pierce, they started the Milo Fund, a Nevada LLC, that supposedly provides more control of donated funds by Wendy Rittenhouse, the defendant's mother. It's named after a dog Rittenhouse got while out on bail.

Earlier, Binger filed other motions to allow "other acts" evidence -- that Rittenhouse had hit a girl who was fighting with his sister, and that he had met with members of the Proud Boys at a Racine County tavern after his arraignment in January.

Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse is seen outside Pudgy's Pub in Mount Pleasant on Jan. 5

Rittenhouse's lawyers say he did not know the men at the tavern, or know they were Proud Boys or that the OK sign they made with their hands in photos they took with Rittenhouse is often used by white supremacists.

The earlier motions are scheduled for a hearing Sept. 17."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4710875&forum_id=2...id#43070700)

the picture of him taking the picture with the supposed proud boys, and

a video where he is watching looters and apparently says he wishes he had his ar that is from a couple of weeks before the shooting

it's all bullshit, of course. he didn't shoot any blacks or girls. he shot three antifa scum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4710875&forum_id=2...id#43070764)