“After seeing the destruction, there was nothing I could do,” Anmol said.Ĭhirafisi also repeatedly asked Anmol if he feared prosecution if he admitted that he sought armed protection on the property where Rittenhouse ultimately shot Joseph Rosenbaum. One of Rittenhouse’s attorneys, Corey Chirafisi, asked Anmol during cross-examination why he would simply leave the properties unattended during the third night of civil unrest in Kenosha after the police shooting against Jacob Blake. But the testimony of the Khindri brothers on Friday contradicted these statements. Rittenhouse and Dominick Black, a friend who was accompanying him at the time, had previously said they were in Kenosha that evening because the owners of Car Source had asked them to keep the properties. Rittenhouse said he was asked to keep the car dealership FOX6 Milwaukee NewsĪnmol, who at the time was an inventory manager at Car Source properties, recalled chatting briefly with Rittenhouse earlier today and giving the 17-year-old his phone number.Īnmol said Rittenhouse, like many others that day, expressed his sadness for the damage the properties had already suffered and his interest in helping him raise money for repairs.īut, Anmol added, he didn’t ask Rittenhouse to keep any Car Source locations, or anyone else to do so. Witness Sahil Khindri said he took a photo with Kyle Rittenhouse and other gunmen on the day of the shooting, but denied asking them to protect the company. He told the court he didn’t ask the men to protect the business, but he didn’t ask them to leave either. He asked for a photo because he was “so impressed” with the way the men were dressed and had previously only seen gunmen like this on TV, he said. Sahil, who posed for a photo outside Car Source with Rittenhouse and a group of heavily armed civilians, said he did not know any of the men at the time. The Khindri brothers explained that their parents owned three car-related properties along Sheridan Road in downtown Kenosha, and the two brothers had arrived at their parents’ house that day to inspect the damage from the previous nights. He pleaded not guilty and said he opened fire in self-defense because the men were chasing him. Rittenhouse is accused of shooting two men, including one in a Car Source parking lot, and injuring a third. Rittenhouse defense attorneys sought to portray their client as a Good Samaritan who offered much needed protection to a family business that had requested it.
The testimony of the Khindri brothers is important to prosecutors’ efforts to portray Rittenhouse as a vigilante who recklessly and needlessly put an AR-15 rifle in a dangerous situation. Sahil and Anmol Khindri both said they met Rittenhouse and other gunmen on August 25, 2020, the day of the shooting, but only briefly.
Two brothers from family car dealership Kyle Rittenhouse said he was guarding the night of the Kenosha shooting. The testimony of the brethren is important to prosecutors’ efforts to portray Rittenhouse as a vigilante. Two brothers said they never asked Kyle Rittenhouse or anyone else to keep their Kenosha car dealership.ĭefense attorneys for Rittenhouse said the teenager was asked to protect the property on August 25, 2020.
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Anmol Khindri, whose family owns Car Source, testifies during Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Novemin Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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