Man dies after being stabbed in the head with a skateboard

So far in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, one of the prosecution’s defining arguments has revolved around the logic of “you must not bring a gun into a fight.”

The 18-year-old Rittenhouse is facing five counts: one count of first-degree murder in the death of Anthony Huber, one count of first-degree reckless murder in the death of Joseph Rosenbaum, two counts reckless endangerment by firing a gun near others and several first-degree murders to injure Gaige Grosskreutz, NPR reported.

Meanwhile, Rittenhouse’s defense argued that he was defending himself against the violence. One such case was when Huber allegedly swung a skateboard at Rittenhouse’s head.

Defense attorney Mark Richards said this was an attempt to kill Rittenhouse.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I would love to be able to hold that skateboard in front of you as evidence today, because then you can see it,” Richards told the jury, according to Independent. “You can see what the weight and weight of the skateboard is and what that skateboard would do if someone was holding it in their hands and swinging down someone’s shoulders, head and neck, trying to separate the head from the body. ”

However, the prosecution continued to argue that Rittenhouse did not act in self-defence.

“You don’t bring a gun into a hand-to-hand fight. … What the defendant wants you to believe is that, because he was the one carrying the gun, he was going to kill people,” said prosecutor Thomas Binger, NBC News reported.

However, one skateboard can kill a person. In 2015, a man died in California after being hit in the head by a skateboard.

On November 24, 2015, a fight broke out at a Starbucks in Santa Ana, KABC-TV reported.

Ozro Lee, a 50-year-old, is said to have acted strangely and then got into a fight with a young man, who “quickly got up and hit Lee on the head with a skateboard in a way that the The witness described as an act of his own. -defense,” according to WLS-TV.

Lee was taken to the Orange County Global Health Center, but succumbed to the beatings and was pronounced dead on arrival.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to make excuses in The case of Rittenhouse to take the threat of a swinging skateboard seriously.

The defense explained that Huber swung his skateboard directly at Rittenhouse and “tried to head,” NBC reported. In fact, a criminal complaint that explains the struggle states that Huber’s skateboard made “contact” with Rittenhouse’s shoulder.

If the blow of the skateboard can be harmful and even fatal, Rittenhouse is acting in self-defence.

“Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself, securing his gun so it could not be taken and used against him or others, from Mr Rosenbaum, who threatened to kill and others unseen. that shooting, attacked him on the street like an animal,” Richards said, according to the Independent.

The prosecution argued that it was Rittenhouse who instigated the entire script.

“That’s what caused this whole thing… When the defendant provoked the matter, he lost his right to defend himself. You cannot claim to defend yourself against a danger you create,” Binger said, according to NBC.

The prosecution also relied on the argument that evidence showed chaos and violence everywhere. Kenosha, but Rittenhouse was the only one to kill anyone.

But no matter what the prosecutor claims, it should be made clear that the skateboard can be a weapon.

Sure, it doesn’t equal a gun, but making the assumption that the attackers couldn’t seriously harm Rittenhouse is not entirely accurate.

Skateboards are not simply harmless. Ozro Lee is deadly proof of that.