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A prosecutor hoping to send Kyle Rittenhouse to prison made closing arguments in his homicide trial on Monday. The jury was expected to begin weighing later in the day whether Mr. Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense, or needlessly and illegally, when he shot three men in Kenosha last summer, two of them fatally, during a night of unrest.
Thomas Binger, who is leading the prosecution, used some of his final moments before the jury to attack Mr. Rittenhouse’s claim that he thought he had to fire at the men to stop them from killing or gravely wounding him.
“You cannot claim self-defense against a danger you create,” Mr. Binger said, arguing that Mr. Rittenhouse, who lived about 30 minutes away from Kenosha, had made an unruly night of demonstrations more threatening by going to the city armed with a military-style semiautomatic rifle.