Thread by @sierragillespie

The state calls Koerri Washington to the stand as its next witness.

Washington says he was live streaming the Kenosha unrest on August 25, 2020.

Washington: There was a lot happening in the city ... Just to create transparency ... People like myself tend to go out and document situations so that there's a record of things.

Washington: There was a lot of protesting. There was a lot of property damage that ended up happening throughout the weeks. Some say riots, civil unrest. Some say uprising.

Washington says the Kenosha unrest began the night Jacob Blake was shot.

Washington: I went to the location where the shooting took place. Kind of just watched and documented ... as people kind of gathered on the scene as things progressed throughout the night.

Washington: There was a crowd already there ... Over a period of a few hours the crowd became getting larger and larger and larger. You could start seeing license plates and people showing up from out of town.

Washington says on the night Jacob Blake was shot, he walked with the mob of people to the Kenosha County Courthouse. He is now testifying in the same building, more than one year later.

Washington: There were protesters kind of going back and forth with police officers ... There was teargas deployed, people kind of spread out. People were shot by rubber bullets.

Washington: Initially, the people on the scene were familiar faces. As things got heated and more and more people started showing up, faces started to become more unfamiliar.

This is an important point in the eyes of the prosecution. Assistant DA Binger called people from outside of Kenosha unwelcome "tourists" the night of August 25, 2020.

(On the third night of protests, August 25, 2020 when the deadly shootings took place) Washington: I would say it was calmer, much calmer. The crowd was more contained.

The jury is now watching Washington's live stream from August 25, 2020, the night of the deadly shootings.

Washington's face when asked what the armed people were doing at the protests the night of August 25, 2020.

Washington: I mean honestly, I didn't talk to anyone individually. So it's hard to really answer that.

Washington says he saw "maybe like two dozen, maybe a little more" people who were armed with AR15 type weapons that night.

Binger jokingly refers to the dumpsters that were lit on fire during the riots as a "perfect metaphor for the year 2020."

Washington testifies that he did NOT feel unsafe standing next to the gas pumps while nearby dumpsters were on fire. He said he did not see anyone try to set the gas pumps on fire.

As it is now past 5:00 p.m. CST, Judge Bruce Schroeder has called the testimony to a close for the day.