So when you consider this case, look for the truth. In fact, many people in Wisconsin went out and got Carry and Conceal weapon permits just so that they could be there in case there was an active shooter, and wanting to stop them. I think we can also agree that we shouldn’t have 17 year olds running around our streets with AR-15s, because this is exactly what happens.Īnd finally, I want you to keep in mind that we’ve all read stories and heard about heroes that step in to stop an active shooter to give their life to save others. You don’t weigh a police officer’s life over an engineer’s life. You don’t weigh a pastor’s life over a teacher’s life. You don’t get to kill someone simply because they’re a drug dealer. We also agree that no one person’s life is more valuable than another. “Raise your hand if you agree life is more important than property.” And all of you raised your hand. We have all agreed, and I asked you this two weeks ago today. People are polarized and there’s a lot of political issues back and forth. When you think about these things, I think there are some things that we can all agree on. Does that suggest to you that he genuinely is there to help? He’s not there for the same purpose as the protestors. Was he genuinely interested in helping people? He ran around on with an AR-15 all night and lied about being an EMT. So when we think about the defendant, I’d like you consider as you think about this case, what were his true motivations were? Was this a situation where he sincerely cared about Car Source, even though he’d never heard of it, never bought anything there, never worked there? And not even its owners were out there that night protecting it.
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None of the things that I just told you are in doubt in this case. And he also spent the entire evening lying about the fact that he was an EMT. Although the defendant claimed to be protecting a business that he wasn’t familiar with, the actual killings in this case had nothing to do with that. And I think most reasonable people obeyed. So I’ll leave it at that.Īnd it was a curfew that all the rest of us here in Kenosha were aware of. That does not mean that it was technically lawfully… Legal curfew, but there had been an announced curfew. There’s no charge, but there has been some discussion about the lawfulness of the curfew. Your Honor, I’m going to object to… There’s no curfew charge anymore. He killed people after traveling here from Antioch, Illinois, and staying out after a citywide curfew. This isn’t a situation where he was protecting his home or his family. This is a case in which a 17-year-old teenager killed two unarmed men and severely wounded a third person with an AR-15 that did not belong to him. So what I’d like to do at the beginning is crystallize it in a nutshell for you, and keep it as simple as possible. I think it’s no surprise that this is a case that there’s a lot of noise and a lot of static surrounding it.
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You don’t have to memorize everything he just told you. You’ll get a copy out, so you’ll have a chance to look it over yourself. I want to assure you that everything that the judge just read to you.