Canon Shooter
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That is where you are wrong.
It DOES go to show that Rittenhouse, the non-criminal, did not provoke the attack. Read the statute I posted.
Rittenhouse can claim self defense.
He cannot claim self defense due to him being afraid of Rosenbaum because of Rosenbaum's past.
Of course he can claim self defense. But many on the pro-Rittenhouse side keep mentioning Rosenbaum's criminal past, as if his criminal past matters in Rittenhouse's decision to shoot him. It doesn't. Only Rosenbaum's actions that night impacted Rittenhouse's decision.
I have no problem with a claim of self defense, as long as it's made on the correct basis. Rosenbaum being a child molester is not a correct basis on which Rittenhouse can base his self defense claim...