KYLE RITTENHOUSE is an 18-year-old resident of Illinois who was found not guilty in the deaths of Anthony Huber, 26, Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and the injury of Gaige Grosskreutz, now 27.
During his court appearances in November of 2021, Rittenhouse was seen crying, an act that had many people on social media questioning it’s validity.
2Kyle Rittenhouse has spoken out about LeBron James’ comments about his trialWhat did Kyle Rittenhouse tell LeBron James?
On November 10, 2021, award-winning NBA player LeBron James took to his Twitter account to share his opinion on the Kyle Rittenhouse court hearing, which was taking place at the time.
USA Today posted a video of Rittenhouse crying to their Twitter feed, to which LeBron quote tweeted the clip, writing: “What tears????? I didn’t see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court. 🤣🤣🤣”
On Monday, December 6, 2021, Rittenhouse appeared on a Blaze TV You Are Here interview, to which he responded to LeBron’s tweet about him.
“I was really pissed off when he said that, because I liked LeBron,” Rittenhouse said.
“I’m like, you know what, f**k you, LeBron,” he continued.
Rittenhouse was found not guilty after he shot and killed two people, injuring a third, at protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the summer of 2020.
He claimed self-defense in his actions, a claim that received mixed reviews from people across the country.
Did Kyle Rittenhouse sue LeBron James?
While claims of Rittenhouse suing LeBron James for defamation have taken over social media, his attorney has informed USA Today that no lawsuits have been filed.
“Kyle Rittenhouse is suing racist LeBron James for defamation,” reads a Facebook post shared on November 30, 2021.
More claims were shared across Facebook and Twitter, with one gaining more than 400 retweets before it was promptly deleted.
According to Rittenhouse’s spokesperson, the claim stemmed from a website that regularly shares satirical articles, meant to poke fun at current events in the nation.
The original headline came from an article on Potatriots Unite, a satire website.
“Everything on this website is fiction,” according to the website’s About Us page.
“It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real.”
LeBron James tweeted about Kyle Rittenhouse crying in court in November of 2021Credit: Getty Images – GettyWho is Kyle Rittenhouse?
Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 years old at the time he shot and killed two people, and was charged with five felony counts including first-degree reckless homicide, first degree intentional homicide and attempted first degree intentional homicide.
After a three-week trial, the Illinois teen was found not guilty of all charges after 26 hours of deliberation.
In August of 2020, Rittenhouse was arrested and subsequently released on a $2million bond after pleading not guilty, claiming self-defense as the reason behind the shootings.
The trial for Rittenhouse began on November 1, 2021, and on November 19, he was found acquitted of all charges.
Following the verdict, Rittenhouse visited former President Donald Trump in Mar-A-Lago, where Trump defended his actions at the 2020 protests.
“He came over with his mother. Really a nice young man,” said Trump, who called what the teen went through during the trial “prosecutorial misconduct.”
Trump claimed Rittenhouse should not have had to “suffer” through the trial, suggesting he would have died had he not acted in “self-defense.”
“If he didn’t pull that trigger, that guy that put the gun to his head in one-quarter of a second he was gonna pull the trigger, Kyle would have been dead.”
Trump went on to call Kyle a “really good young guy.”
