The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse entered its final stretch Monday, as both the prosecution and defense gave closing arguments. The video above shows clips from those closing arguments. Before that happened, Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed one of the charges against Rittenhouse. The charge in question was possession of a dangerous weapon by…

On the same day the defense rested in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an attorney for one of the men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery took issue with “Black pastors” attending court proceedings. The video above shows scenes from both courtrooms Thursday. Arbery was Black, and the three men accused of murdering…

Bruce Schroeder is gaining national attention as he presides over the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. The longest-serving circuit court judge in Wisconsin took a hard line with prosecutors, at times clashing over an attempt to introduce testimony previously ruled inadmissible and over a reference to Rittenhouse’s silence following his arrest in Kenosha, WI. Schroeder…

The homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse got emotional and even combative Wednesday, with Rittenhouse’s defense team calling for a mistrial. Multiple breaks had to be taken during testimony as Rittenhouse took the stand. Rittenhouse testified that he was under attack when he shot three men, two fatally, during a night of turbulent protests against racial injustice…

After 5 1/2 days of witness testimony in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the prosecution called on a pathologist to testify before resting its case. Dr. Doug Kelley with the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office testified that the first man killed by Rittenhouse last year during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot at a range of…

One of three people shot by Kyle Rittenhouse at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year, and the only survivor, testified at Rittenhouse’s trial Monday. Protester and volunteer medic Gaige Grosskreutz was shot in the arm that night. In trial testimony, part of which is shown in the video above, the survivor said he pointed…

On the same day the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse focused on one of the three people Rittenhouse shot at a protest in Kenosha last year, the trial of the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery held opening statements. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael, as well as their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, allegedly…

A juror in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse was dismissed Thursday after a court security officer caught the juror making a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake. That shooting led to the protests where Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two and wounding another. The video above shows Judge Bruce Schroeder addressing the juror.…

Update (11/4/21): The jury for the trial of three Georgia men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery will consist of 1 Black juror and 11 white jurors. The final decision by Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley paves the way for opening statements to begin. The video above shows Walmsley’s decision, as well as reaction from Arbery’s aunt.…

Day two of the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse trial included opening statements from both the prosecution and defense. Rittenhouse is accused of first-degree homicide in the shooting deaths of two and wounding of another during a night of anti-racism protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year. Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were killed, and Gaige Grosskreutz…