So Not a Surprise

15 days before murdering protesters in Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse was caught on tape declaring that he wished that he had his AR so that he could shoot some people that he thought were shoplifters.

Prosecutors want to introduce the video to show that he went to Kenosha with the intent of committing murder, saying that this video shows his state of mind.

I'm not sure of the legal issues, but it does seem to make it clear that the wannabee Rambo just wanted to kill people:

Two weeks before he shot three people in Kenosha, killing two, Kyle Rittenhouse was captured on video threatening to shoot men he believed were shoplifting at a pharmacy, according to prosecutors.

In the video, according to an “other acts” motion filed by prosecutors this week, a person prosecutors identify as Rittenhouse is on the side of a street, watching several people leaving a CVS Pharmacy. “Bro, I wish I had my (expletive) AR, I’d start shooting rounds at them,” Rittenhouse says, according to the motion.

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Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger is asking that the jury at Rittenhouse’s trial see the video as evidence of Rittenhouse’s state of mind on the night 15 days later on Aug. 25, 2020, when the Antioch teenager came to Kenosha during protests while armed with an AR-15-style rifle and shot three men, killing two.

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“The video from only 15 days earlier … provides crucial insight” into Rittenhouse’s state of mind, the motion argues.

Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois man accused of killing two people during the chaotic protests that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, was due Friday to make his first in-person court appearance.

“It shows that the defendant eagerly made assumptions about the intentions of others even though he knew absolutely nothing about what was going on. 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,” the motion states.

Along with the new other acts motion, the state earlier filed a motion seeking to admit a video taken from Kenosha’s lakefront weeks before the August shooting that shows Rittenhouse punching a girl who had been in a dispute with his sister. In that video, Rittenhouse punches a young woman from behind, running away when passersby intervene telling him not to “put his hands on a female.”

Lovely fellow.

There are way too many ammosexuals out there who fantasize about shooting people with their shiny new phallic symbols.

Entitled much?