Witness: Rittenhouse Said He Acted in Self-Defense; People ‘Were Trying to Hurt Him’

Dominick Black looks at a photograph held by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, where he along with Kyle Rittenhouse and a group of others posed on Aug. 25, 2020, during Kyle Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Rittenhouse is accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a protest over police brutality in Kenosha, last year. Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool

The first witness called in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial told the court room on Nov. 2 that his friend was acting in self-defense when he shot three men in Wisconsin last year.

“He just said he had to do it; it was self-defense,” Dominick Black, who was dating Rittenhouse’s sister last year, said on the stand at the Kenosha County Courthouse.