Kyle Rittenhouse testified he "didn't do anything wrong" when he fatally shot two people
 NOVEMBER 11, 2021 (MAKE A WISH, HEH HEH) THE BIG STORY
Kyle Rittenhouse testified he "didn't do anything wrong" when he fatally shot two people  Pool / Getty Images Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot at protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year and killed two people, took the stand in his murder trial Wednesday and said he was acting in self-defense.
Rittenhouse is accused of killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and wounding Gaige Grosskreutz, at a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man. He testified that he intended to only render first aid at the protest, even giving his bulletproof vest to a friend that day because he didn't think he needed it. However, Rittenhouse was armed with an AR-15 rifle, which he claimed he brought for protection.
"I did what I had to do to stop the person who was attacking me," Rittenhouse said. "Two of them passed away, but I stopped the threat from attacking me." STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
A Capitol rioter will spend more than 3 years in prison for punching a police officer in the head  Samuel Corum / Getty Images Former mixed martial arts fighter Scott Fairlamb was captured on video assaulting police and bragging about stealing an officer's baton during the Jan. 6 insurrection. He's the first rioter sentenced to years in prison.
In addition to the video of Fairlamb assaulting a police officer, he also recorded a video bragging about joining the attack. "What patriots do? We fuckin' disarm 'em and then we storm the fuckin' Capitol," he said in the video.
Fairlamb is also the first person sentenced in these cases who pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer. The sentence was three months less than the 44 months in prison that prosecutors had argued for, and 30 months more than the 11 months that Fairlamb's lawyer had argued would be appropriate. SNAPSHOTS
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