“I don’t want to shoot anybody. I just got my EMT license” – Kyle Rittenhouse
A new eyewitness to Kyle Rittenhouse’s shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum could get the teenager acquitted of murder charges. However, until now, the combat veteran and former Air Force firearms instructor has never told his story, and he’s never been interviewed by the Rittenhouse defense team or the police, who appear to not know he exists.
This witness, Jon, 43, tells Wisconsin Right Now in an exclusive interview that he observed Rosenbaum chasing Rittenhouse in what he described as an “aggressive” and “predatory fashion” right before gunfire rang out and then Rittenhouse shot and killed Rosenbaum. We know Jon’s last name and occupation, but we agreed not to print them because he’s afraid he could be targeted due to the incendiary nature of the situation. Rittenhouse is in court for an arraignment on January 5; he entered not guilty pleas.
Furthermore, he says that Rittenhouse told him, “I don’t want to shoot anybody. I just got my EMT license,” before the shootings. “He was like a little kid,” proud he got the license, the witness said.
There’s a well-known video that captures Rosenbaum chasing Rittenhouse, of course; but the eyewitness’s account is a vivid description of what he saw go down as the videographer filmed nearby. “My angle was different,” he says of the video. “The camera wasn’t pointed there when it first happened.” The witness was standing across the street at the eastern edge of Sheridan Road, about 40 yards away. He said this of Rosenbaum:
“It was that aggressive posture, I would even go so far as to say predatory – not ‘I am just going to jog up and catch up to him.’ He (Rosenbaum) was intent, and that moment (when Rittenhouse fired) he was about to leap,” said the witness. “I would absolutely say with zero reservation that the first shoot was a self defense shooting.”
Video continues to trickle out. I would like to know too.
Previously unseen footage of the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting in Kenosha. He was being pursued by Rosenbaum before a single shot rang out, followed by four more shots. pic.twitter.com/QPWLPz3ppe
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He added:
“In my opinion, he (Rosenbaum) was trying to murder that boy,” Jon said of Rittenhouse. Asked why he believed that, he said, “The exceptionally aggressive posture. How aggressively he was pursuing. He was really leaned into. He was just about to lunge. He (Rittenhouse) was running away and losing ground.”…
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