Why am I missing the significance of this?
Keep in mind I have not been following the minutiae of the case closely.
The prosecution has repeatedly claimed, based on a nearly indecipherable 20x zoomed in 8px by 8px fuzzy block of pixels, that Kyle "put down the fire extinguisher and then raised his weapon at Rosenbaum, provoking the attack".
If Kyle had provoked the attack (he didnt) it greatly undermines his self defense claims.
The prosecutors lied to the judge when they said they had testimony and multiple pieces if evidence to corroborate it. (Their sole evidence was 1 single drone video zoomed in 20x). Noone really called them on it. The defense put up basically no fight in objecting to it.
Further - the prosecution supplied the defense with a lower res version, seemingly intentionally. It wasn't until Friday that the defense got the real copy.
If you have a leftist bias, you can see anything in that fuzzy block of pixels that you want to see. Like a rorschach test. The prosecution has decided that the fuzzy pixels shows Kyle provoking the attack. Which would require that Kyle was holding the gun left handed (Kyle is right handed). Absolutely none of this is corroborated by testimony or any other video.
An alternate interpretation of the fuzzy pixels is that Kyle was simply walking towards the camera with the gun slinged downward in front of him, which is consistent with the other evidence.
The fuzzy 8x8 block of pixels is impossible to prove either way. There is not a single reasonable jury that would find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt based on those pixels, yet the judge allowed it which triggered a provocation instruction.
Without the provocation instruction, the state had literally 0 basis for saying Kyle didn't act in self defense. Even the states own witnesses only helped, never hurt, Kyle's claims to self defense.
But with these fuzzy pixels all that goes out the window because Kyle had "provoked" the attack.
With these fuzzy pixels, the prosecutor gave the anti-Kyle jurors 1 inch of rope to hang on to, and it is with that 1 inch of rope they are trying to hang Kyle.
And the defense just let it happen.