Opening statements from the prosecution and defense were followed by testimony from a friend of Mr. Rittenhouse, an F.B.I. agent and a witness to the unrest in Kenosha, Wis.<\/b>
\nAfter a single day of jury selection, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse got underway on Tuesday with the prosecution and defense offering starkly differing interpretations of the events that led to Mr. Rittenhouse shooting three men \u2014 two of them fatally \u2014 in the aftermath of demonstrations in Kenosha, Wis., in August 2020. At the center of the case is whether Mr. Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. The day began with opening statements from the prosecution and defense, and ended with testimony from Koerri Washington, a Kenosha resident who live-streamed the protests in 2020. In between came testimony from Dominick Black, a friend of Mr. Rittenhouse who purchased the gun used in the shooting, and from an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, whose testimony was withheld from the public for security reasons. Here is what happened:<\/p>\n