Thread by @sierragillespie

We're back in session. Judge Schroeder is calling for the jury to re-enter. Washington takes the stand for redirect from the prosecution.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger begins his redirect examination of Koerri Washington.

There are laughs in the courtroom when Binger asks whether Washington used his skateboard as a weapon on the night of August 25, 2020. This after strong cross-examination by Chirafisi about using a skateboard as a weapon.

Washington clarifies from his cross-examination, that he did not make note of Joseph Rosenbaum while live streaming on August 25, 2020. He says he only learned of Rosenbaum's actions that night in the time that followed Rosenbaum's death.

Washington confirms he was wearing a mask the night of the shooting (amidst the 2020 pandemic) and that Rosenbaum was wearing a shirt to cover his face. He says a lot of people were wearing masks as well.

Binger is finished and Chirafisi is back to questioning.

(In the live stream shown)
Chirafisi: It doesn't appear that Mr. Rittenhouse is chasing Mr. Rosenbaum, does it?
Washington: No.

There is back and forth about the face covering Rosenbaum was wearing the night of. Chirafisi asked whether Rosenbaum was wearing the shirt as a COVID mask, but Binger objects. Washington says he doesn't recall many people wearing shirts as masks, other than Rosenbaum.

Koerri Washington is excused. He leaves the courtroom.

The state calls Detective Martin Howard with the City of Kenosha Police Department.

Howard describes what his role was the night of August 25, 2020 in Kenosha. He says there was an 8pm curfew that night, so at about 6pm he started making sure gas pumps around the city were turned off to avoid fires during the unrest.

Howard says he also monitored the highway leading into Kenosha.

Howard: If you saw an influx of cars with license plates removed, that was a tell-tale sign to us that they may not be coming to Kenosha to conduct regular business.

Howard: We were receiving a lot of reports, 911 calls of different things going on ... Every 911 call, we still have to check it out and make sure that things are OK there ... If something was going on, we would verify that and do what we could.

Binger: It wouldn't be normal for you as a detective to go to the gas stations or monitoring the interstates, would it?
Howard: No ... on a normal day I'd be at the detective bureau.

Howard: There was a report of a shooting at the area of 60th and 63rd and Sheridan ... We initially got a report that there were four homicide victims.

Howard confirms he and a partner were put as investigators on the case at about 12:30 that morning.

Howard says saved videos from Twitter and Facebook as part of the investigation. He also gathered videos from private citizens.

Judge Schroeder interrupts with an early break for lunch as the food has been delivered and he doesn't want the jurors to have "warm, soggy sandwiches."

The judge calls that court will resume at 12:10 p.m. CST.