Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen acquitted of shooting three people at a Black Lives Matter rally in Wisconsin in August 2020, had a vulgar message for LeBron James in retaliation for mocking him.
The Los Angeles Lakers superstar took to Twitter to make fun of Rittenhouse’s alleged fake tears as he recounted in court on Nov. 10, 2021, what led him to discharge his assault rifle and take two men’s lives and seriously injure another.
“What tears????? I didn’t see one,” James, who turns 37 in December, tweeted at the time. “Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court.”
Now that Rittenhouse has been exonerated on all charges, he unloaded on King James for that remark that went viral.
“I was really pissed off when he said that ‘cause I liked LeBron, and then I’m like, ‘You know what? F–k you, LeBron,’” Rittenhouse said Monday on the BlazeTV program “You Are Here.”
Rittenhouse took his assault rifle to a rally in August 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which is 40 miles south of Milwaukee near the Illinois border. He claimed he was protecting businesses and other property from fringe protesters who tended to loot and ransack. The protest occurred two days after a Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back seven times. Blake is now partially paralyzed.
