LeBron James mocks Ritternhouse's courtroom tears

LeBron James is a multimillionaire whose fortune comes from his ability to put a ball through a hoop and entertain people with his natural athletic ability. The problem with this, however, is that people who admire celebrities like James, believe their opinions are as accurate as their free-throws or whatever it is they do with their bodies athletically to make us think of them as heroes.

If you have been following the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, [aka prosecutorial farce] you saw or heard that he broke down on the stand and cried when testifying about his obvious self-defense actions in which two rioters who attacked him ended up dead and a third wounded.

James, who was born to a 16-year-old mother and an absentee father with an extensive criminal record, mocked Rittenhouse over a video showing him crying during testimony, apparently overwhelmed with the killing of human beings.

One can give credit to James for overcoming the obstacles in his life that could have stifled his growth, but his innate ability to throw a ball through a hoop and bounce it in such a way as to prevent the opposing players from taking the ball from him, helped earn him fame and fortune. 

But that doesn't add one iota of credibility to his opinions about anything beyond basketball.

James posted on Twitter about Rittenhouse's emotional display: "What tears????? "I didn’t see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court," James stupidly added, confusing lemons with lettuce.

Anyone who knows anything about body language, can see that Rittenhouse is not faking it. He blinks hard to hold back tears, his chest heaves, his forehead shows the grief muscles that cannot be faked and he is hyperventilating. Unless Rittenhouse is an Oscar winning actor, this is real. See for yourself in the video below.

James' tweet was retweeted thousands of times and received tens of thousands of likes by tens of thousands of progressives who want to see Rittenhouse be sentenced to life behind bars for defending himself against his attackers. 

One of the attackers who died, was Joseph Rosenbaum, a homeless man with bipolar disorder who had been discharged from the mental ward of the hospital that day after a suicide attempt. He had spent over ten years in prison in Arizona after a conviction of sexual assault of a minor.

Joseph Rosenbaum

The second attacker who died was Anthony Huber, who also had a criminal history and also threatened to "gut" his brother "like a pig" if he didn't start cleaning his room, while holding a butcher's knife to his belly.

Anthony Huber

“Huber grabbed his brother by the neck, dug his nails in and choked him for approximately ten seconds,” Rittenhouse's defense lawyer Corey Chirafisi said. “He put a knife to his brother’s left ear and his brother felt it cut.”

“I’m going to burn the house down with all you f—kers in it,” Chirafisi told the judge Huber said.

Huber took a plea deal on a strangulation and suffocation charge, Chriafisi said.

As Huber went after Rittenhouse and struck him in the head with a skateboard, Rittenhouse shot Huber in the chest, killing him in obvious self-defense.

Rittenhouse is charged with two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, recklessly endangering safety and illegal possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. The media originally claimed that he had taken a weapon across a state line but this turned out to be bogus.

The third attacker, Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, was the only one who survived, even though he admitted to aiming his handgun at Rittenhouse when he was shot in the arm by the then-17-year-old.

Gaige Grosskreutz

Grosskreutz, a Black Lives Matter member, testified that his hands were raised and Rittenhouse did not shoot him until he pointed his Glock pistol at him on the evening of August 25, 2020. The pistol permit for his gun had expired.

Like the media who jumped on the case against Rittenhouse before the fires of Kenosha died out, LeBron James and his fans seem to believe the only way justice will be served is if Kyle Rittenhouse is convicted of murder, even if the shootings were in self-defense. If not, what should Rittenhouse have done differently when his life was clearly in danger?

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Personally, I think Rittenhouse should not have been at the riots in the first place, but his intentions seemed good and we can't rewrite history. He was 17 at the time and his judgment was that of a person his age.

The fact that the FBI was taking drone video of the event and withheld the visual evidence until now is unconscionable and an obvious political decision that has no business being made by a branch of law enforcement.

And the fact that LeBron James is an excellent basketball player does not give his opinion about the mental state of Kyle Rittenhouse any greater credibility than anyone else. He needs to stick to dribbling and shooting basketballs, not his mouth.

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