ADA Thomas Binger says Kyle Rittenhouse 'could've fired warning shots' or 'could've dropped the gun' and surrendered instead of shooting Joseph Rosenbaum

Sarah D | 2:32 PM on November 15, 2021

As we told you earlier, in his closing arguments today, ADA Thomas Binger attempted to paint Joseph Rosenbaum as an innocent victim of trigger-happy domestic terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse’s shooting rampage in Kenosha.

This is how the prosecution is framing the death of Joseph Rosenbaum. pic.twitter.com/vtA8dfvRJ9

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 15, 2021

ADA Binger tells the Rittenhouse jury: "Now the defense wants you to think Joesph Rosenbaum was there to attack the defendant. We'll never know what Joesph Rosenbaum was thinking, we're just guessing…[Rosenbaum was] an unarmed man…You don't bring a gun to a fistfight." pic.twitter.com/0aj4YZnJ4x

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 15, 2021

According to Binger, Rittenhouse blew off multiple opportunities to help Rosenbaum when Rosenbaum was trying to get Rittenhouse’s rifle:

Binger: [Rittenhouse] could've stayed at Mr. Rosenbaum's body, helped protect him…called 9-1-1…[Rittenhouse] could've fired warning shots to keep [the crowd] away, he could've dropped the gun, he could've raised his hands and surrendered… pic.twitter.com/9aMlbHnlbD

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 15, 2021

Rittenhouse could have protected Mr. Rosenbaum from what, exactly? Rosenbaum appears to have been the aggressor, and it’s not as if he wasn’t in the company of countless other rioters who likely would’ve relished any opportunity to get their hands on Rittenhouse. And why on earth would Rittenhouse drop the gun when he felt his life was being threatened? And surrendered to whom? The rioters? We definitely wouldn’t be having this conversation today because Rittenhouse likely wouldn’t be alive right now if he’d turned himself over to the rioters.