Thought exercise:
If Grosskreutz had shot Rittenhouse, and claimed he was justified by stopping an active shooter, would he have been charged?
Not a chance.
He’s not charged with the lack of a valid CCW which he admits he didn’t have and although they’re different states, I’m sure the law in Wisconsin is similar to GA or more restrictive in use of force/citizens arrest compared to GA.
Grosskruetz ran after rittenhouse and asked him what he did (he didn’t know firsthand). He watched rittenhouse be assaulted several times including by Huber, who was then shot, before grosskruetz pointed his gun at rittenhouse and charged at rittenhouse.
Look at what the morons in GA are being prosecuted for in GA in the death or Arbery. They’re claiming they were acting legal under GAs civil arrest law (I doubt Wisconsin has one or anything close to that which would allow someone to use force to detain or neutralize a person fleeing)
The morons in GA were idiots from start to finish but legally they’re trying to use that civil arrest law, saying they had the legal right to do it. But that law requires firsthand knowledge of a current crime, not speculation or a good faith belief. They didn’t have knowledge of a current crime, they believed Arbery “may” have been a person involved in theft weeks and months ago.
Grosskruetz didn’t see the shooting of rosenbaum (and even if he did, if rittenhouse acted in self defense then no crime was committed) . His asking rittenhouse as he was running “what did you do” lends credence to grosskruetzs lack of firsthand knowledge a crime was committed and he had the legal right to stop a fleeing suspect (again, I doubt Wisconsin has anything like what GA did last year. GA repealed that civil arrest law)
Grosskruetz didn’t fire a round so an attempted murder charge wouldn’t be legitimate but a assault and battery with a deadly weapon would be. It’s clearly on video and would be a strong case.
But the prosecution decided to arrest and charge rittenhouse less than 8 hours after the shooting and long before they knew 80% of the evidence. The defense has touched on this some and I’m sure they’ll hammer it more in closing. They say it was a clear case of self defense and there was a rush to judgement by the state and the charges are absurd