Joseph Rosenbaum was the first person killed by Kyle Rittenhouse.

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  • We just spent a lot of time talking, getting to know one another, and laughing and joking around. He was a very animated person like that.
    He wasn’t down there as a rioter or a looter
    Why was he there? I have no answer. I ask myself that question every day.
    I did explain to him that things had gotten bad the last few days because he was not in town and did tell him explicitly not to go downtown.
    There was the mark where Joe had been laying.
    I put my hand in it, and my hand was wet with his blood and that’s when, again, I collapsed on the ground.
  • Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today.
    The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.
    To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement.
  • I took off the Black Lives Matter t-shirt I chose that night to blend in with the crowd and used it to stanch the wounds on the first shooting victim: Joseph Rosenbaum.
    "It's gonna be okay, bro," I told Rosenbaum. "We're gonna have a beer after this and laugh about it."
    It was hard to hear my voice over the sounds of Rosenbaum struggling to breathe and gargling blood instead.
    I arrived at the scene of the shooting. I tried to retrace my steps. There was no memorial for Rosenbaum or Huber.
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