Kenosha News , though he was not working in Kenosha on the day of the shooting. The New York Times that Rittenhouse said on the stand that “he had been asked to go to downtown Kenosha in August 2020 by the owner of Car Source, a business that had endured damage and arson in demonstrations over the police shooting of a Kenosha resident.” He brought an AR-15-style assault rifle.
On the evening of August 25, with a reporter from The Daily Caller, Rittenhouse stood in front of a boarded up Kenosha business, with his gun and a medical kit strapped to his body. “Our job is to protect this business," he told the camera. "And part of my job is to also help people.
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