Prosecutors Seek Video Of Separate Rittenhouse Incident: Report

WISCONSIN — State prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday to use a video that appeared to show Kyle Rittenhouse threatening strangers he believed were shoplifting at a CVS Pharmacy.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger is asking that the jury at Rittenhouse's homicide trial be allowed to see the video as evidence of his state of mind, Kenosha News reported.

Rittenhouse is charged with multiple counts of intentional homicide, reckless endangerment and possessing a firearm as a minor in connection with the shooting deaths of two people at a protest in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020. He will appear in court on Nov. 1.

The video showed a person prosecutors identified as Rittenhouse watching several people leave a CVS harmacy from the side of a busy street and making threatening comments to them, Kenosha News reported. The video is from two weeks before Rittenhouse shot and killed two protesters and wounded a third, prosecutors said.

“Bro, I wish I had my [expletive] AR, I’d start shooting rounds at them,” the person identified as Rittenhouse said, Kenosha News reported. Rittenhouse isn't visible in the video.

Prosecutors filed an "other acts" motion Wednesday to show the video to the jury in Rittenhouse's trial, the court document said.

In a separate motion, Binger asked Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder to order Rittenhouse to turn over the names of anyone who donated to his legal defense, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. That included people who purchased "Free Kyle" merchandise through his family's website.

Binger said those people shouldn't be allowed to serve on the jury for Rittenhouse's trial, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

Patch reached out to Rittenhouse's lawyer for comment.