The Khindri brothers explained that their parents owned three car-related properties along Sheridan Road in downtown Kenosha, and that both brothers had arrived at their parents' properties that day to inspect damage from previous nights of protests.
Both Rittenhouse and Dominick Black, a friend accompanying him at the time, said they were in Kenosha that evening because the owners of the Car Source asked them to guard the properties.
But the Khindri brothers' testimony on Friday conflicted with those statements.
Sahil Khindri, who posed for a picture outside the Car Source with Rittenhouse and a group of heavily armed civilians, testified that he hadn't actually known any of the men at the time. He requested a photo because he was "so impressed" by the way the men were dressed, and had previously only seen armed men like that on television, he said.
He told the court that he didn't ask the men to protect the business, but he also didn't ask them to leave.
attorneys, Corey Chirafisi, asked Anmol Khindri why he would simply leave the properties unguarded.
"After seeing the destruction, there was nothing I could do," Anmol said.
Attorney Corey Chirafisi asked Anmol whether he was fearful of being sued if he admitted that he requested armed protection on the property where Rittenhouse ultimately shot Joseph Rosenbaum. Anmol appeared not to understand the question.
Anmol Khindri, who at the time was an inventory manager at the Car Source properties, recalled briefly chatting with Rittenhouse earlier in the day and giving the then-17-year-old his phone number.
Anmol said Rittenhouse, like many others that day, had expressed sorrow for the damage the properties had already sustained and interest in helping him fund-raise for repairs.
Prosecutors asked both brothers to read a text message sent to Anmol's phone on August 25, 2020, that said, "Hey Sam it's Kyle do you need anyone to protect your business tonight I'm more
then (sic) willing and will be armed I just need address. Me and my brother would both be
thwre (sic) armed."
Anmol confirmed that he goes by the name "Sam", and that he received the text on his cellphone.
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