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Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse’s new merchandise site signals ‘new era’ of criminal defense Mark Guarino © Antioch (Ill.) Police Department/Chicago Tribune/AP Kyle Rittenhouse, shown in an undated police booking photo taken in Antioch, Ill., has been charged with fatally shooting two men and injuring a third during a protest in Kenosha, Wis., in late August. A website designed to raise $2 million in defense funds for Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager charged with killing two men and injuring a third during street protests in Kenosha, Wis., in August, has pr...

With the mcdonald family? because as we know the city revealed they paid out $5 million to the family. were you a part of that negotiation or a part of that process legally? >> right. i was. my partner michael robins and i represented the estate of laquan mcdonald which consisted of his mother and younger sister, a minor, and we represented them. we did extensive investigation into the shooting. ultimately, acquired a copy of the dash cam video via legal process, a subpoena, in the probate proceedings and negotiated the settlement in april. >> jeff, how had it been explained to you legally, th...

Truth had to come out and she understands that the video would be used in the prosecution of the officer. so it's really kind of a mixed reaction. we are relieved and thankful that finally charges have been brought against the officer and that the truth is out there and now the whole world knows what happened to la qun. >> jeff, local station in chicago reports that the officer who fired the shots had at least 20 civilian complaints against him, four are open investigations and none of the other led to disciplinary actions according to wmaq. what does laquan's mother say now that charges are m...

Took prosecutors 13, 14 months to bring charges? >> well, it's a great question. we are certainly happy that charges have been brought but i can't understand why it took so long. there were eyewitnesses, civilian eyewitnesses and i understand i'm a former prosecutor, my partner's a former prosecutor. so we understand that witnesses had to be brought in front of the grand jury and certainly don't want witnesses to testify as to what they saw in youtube. want them to testify from their memory but, you know, as 13 months seems like an awful long time. >> jeff neslund, thank you, sir. we appreciat...

If you have seen it, you know. it is disturbing. we'll show a brief part of it but you can see 17-year-old laquan mcdonald walking on a four-lane street with knife in hand appearing to be veering away from two officers arriving on the scene. they draw their guns. within seconds, officer vandyke starts shooting. mcdonald falls to the pavement. a total of 16 rounds fired, most of them striking the teen laying on the ground. autopsy results showed drugs in mcdonald's system. jason vandyke is charged with first-degree murder. his attorney maintains the shooting was justifiejustified. after the vid...