Defense expert testifies that Kyle Rittenhouse shot all 3 men within 1 minute and 20 seconds

• Kyle Rittenhouse's defense attorneys called a use-of-force expert to testify about the speed of the Kenosha shootings.
• John Black testified that Rittenhouse shot three men that night in under a minute and 20 seconds.

An expert witness called by Kyle Rittenhouse's defense attorneys told the jury on Thursday that all three shootings in Kenosha on August 25, 2020, occurred within seconds of each other.

Rittenhouse, 18, is on trial for fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz. Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty and said he shot all three men in self-defense after they attacked him.

John Black, a use-of-force expert, gave a second-by-second breakdown of the events that night to the jury, emphasizing just how quickly the chaos and violence escalated. He said just one minute and 20 seconds elapsed between the first shot Rittenhouse fired that night and the last.

Black also testified that just two minutes and 55 seconds elapsed between the moment that Rosenbaum was first seen on video chasing Rittenhouse, and the moment Rittenhouse approached Kenosha police officers in an attempt to turn himself in.

Rittenhouse's team used Black's testimony to imply that those select minutes were the only timeframe needed to establish whether Rittenhouse was justified in shooting the men. Prosecutors, meanwhile, have examined the hours leading up to the shootings, and questioned Rittenhouse's decisions to attend the protests in the first place and to arm himself with an AR-15 rifle.

Both prosecutors and defense attorneys have played blurry and distant videos for the jury showing Rosenbaum chasing Rittenhouse into the parking lot of a car dealership, where Rittenhouse turned and opened fire.

Rittenhouse and other witnesses have testified that amid the chase, when Rittenhouse neared a dead end, Rosenbaum lunged for Rittenhouse's rifle. Black testified that all four shots Rittenhouse fired into Rosenbaum's body occurred in 0.739 seconds.

Rittenhouse testified the previous day that when he neared the dead end, he turned around and saw Rosenbaum "coming at me, with his arms out in front of him."

"I remember his hand on the barrel of my gun," Rittenhouse testified.

Black warned that videos don't show the 'experience or perception' of the people seen in them

According to videos and multiple witnesses' testimony, Rittenhouse soon fled the scene of the Rosenbaum shooting - he testified that it was because a "mob" of people began screaming at him and chasing him - and ran down Sheridan Road towards a convoy of Kenosha police vehicles.

Black played videos showing Rittenhouse being chased by a number of people, including an unidentified man who jumped and kicked Rittenhouse in the head, and Huber, who struck Rittenhouse with his skateboard.

Black testified that Rittenhouse fired two shots at the man who kicked him, though missed, then fired another shot at Huber less than two seconds later, after Huber struck him with his skateboard. Rittenhouse testified Wednesday that Huber also grabbed his gun and tried to pull it away from him.

Black said 2.933 seconds passed between Rittenhouse's shot at Huber, and Rittenhouse's shot at Grosskreutz. Black played video showed Grosskreutz wielding a pistol and approaching Rittenhouse, briefly raising his hands, then darting forward.

Rittenhouse testified Wednesday that he only opened fire when he saw Grosskreutz point his pistol at him. Grosskreutz testified on Monday that he believed Rittenhouse was "reracking" his rifle and wasn't accepting Grosskreutz's surrender, but agreed that the teenager did not shoot until Grosskreutz pointed his gun at Rittenhouse.

In total, Rittenhouse fired all four shots - two at the unidentified man, one at Huber, and one at Grosskreutz - in 5.468 seconds.

Black emphasized in his testimony that the videos of the shootings offered only a limited understanding of the events that night.

"Video has great value, but it is not the experience or perception of the people in the event," Black said. "It can't be."