Kyle Rittenhouse instigated Kenosha bloodshed, says murder trial prosecutor

Kyle Rittenhouse pulls up a chair to his table before the start of the trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool)

Kyle Rittenhouse instigated the confrontation that led him to shoot three men on the streets of Kenosha during a turbulent protest against racial injustice in Wisconsin, and he killed one of the victims with a bullet to the back, a prosecutor said at his murder trial.

But Rittenhouse’s lawyer told the jury that his client acted in self-defence after one of the men dove for his gun and others kicked him in the face and clubbed him in the head with a skateboard.