he knowingly and needlessly put himself in a dangerous situation

That criticism applies to every single person present in Kenosha that evening.

A large percentage of the individuals present that evening were armed, some legally, some illegally, including Joshua Ziminski (who fired into the air just before Rosenbaum’s attack) and Gaige Grosskreutz (the fourth person to attempt to use deadly force on Rittenhouse that evening, and the one who instigated the second and third attacks). “Being armed” was not at all an unusual act in Kenosha that night.

Despite hundreds of hours of video having been captured that night, precisely none shows Rittenhouse instigating any sort of violence that night.