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LeBron James makes fun of Kyle Rittenhouse crying on witness stand — and outspoken NBA superstar gets shredded for it on Twitter
November 11, 2021
Socially conscious NBA superstar LeBron James weighed in on the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial Wednesday by mocking the 18-year-old defendant for becoming emotional and beginning to cry on the witness stand.
James — reacting to a USA Today headline saying Rittenhouse "broke down in tears" — told his 50 million Twitter followers that he wasn't buying it, among other things.
"What tears?????" James asked in his now viral tweet. "I didn't see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court." He finished off his message with a trio of laughing-crying emojis.
What tears????? I didn\u2019t see one. Man knock it off! That boy ate some lemon heads before walking into court. https://twitter.com/usatoday/status/1458521089152274442\u00a0\u2026— LeBron James (@LeBron James) 1636596954
As of Thursday morning, James' tweet garnered nearly 170,000 likes, nearly 29,000 retweets, and over 23,000 comments.
Oops
Of course, not all of the comments were favorable. In fact, James — who's unwisely opined on a number of issues beyond the basketball court — got his head handed to him by a several prominent Twitter users:
Lebron, great defender of the Chinese government's tyranny, also happens to be an unparalleled dumpster fire in the field of criminal justicepic.twitter.com/Hs9JeXnBt9— Ben Shapiro (@Ben Shapiro) 1636635152
You're a genuinely terrible and unintelligent person.https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1458619464329670657\u00a0\u2026— Allie Beth Stuckey (@Allie Beth Stuckey) 1636601447
Did your ChiCom masters tell you to tweet this?— John Cardillo (@John Cardillo) 1636631091
To know you is to dislike you. How could an individual be wrong on every conceivable issue? What an execrable schmuck you are, respectfully of course.— Gad Saad (@Gad Saad) 1636605781
LeBron James appears to be mocking people dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in this post. Why? Is this a joke to you? Not a good look!— Aaron J. Carpenter\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Aaron J. Carpenter\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1636605250
You would know all about faking.— Sara Gonzales (@Sara Gonzales) 1636602595
glad you could take a break from promoting slavery in China that benefits you to mock a kid who defended himself legally.— Jessica O\u2019Donnell (@Jessica O\u2019Donnell) 1636603857
The coward who\u2019s fought for nothing has comments about a young man who stepped into the breech to defended his community because our institutions failed. \n\nLeBron\u2019s existence as a celebrity is a reflection of our decline.https://twitter.com/kingjames/status/1458619464329670657\u00a0\u2026— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@Joe Kent for WA-3) 1636599488
Sit this one out champ.pic.twitter.com/e8tfbJJhhR— Barrington Martin II (@Barrington Martin II) 1636600062
No one knows how to fake something better than youpic.twitter.com/XHLzaTX00d— Graham Allen (@Graham Allen) 1636635858
You get rich selling shoes made by SLAVES.https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1458619464329670657\u00a0\u2026— Larry O'Connor (@Larry O'Connor) 1636599830
If he\u2019s faking it, we better call Juwan Howard.pic.twitter.com/j5ZuKTwYSo— Jesse Kelly (@Jesse Kelly) 1636600458
And conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller called James a "f***ing coward" while mocking him back, asking if he plans on offering "any support for your fellow NBA player @EnesKanter speaking out against the mass extermination of ethnic Muslims in China?"
But notable blue checkmarks agreed with James
As you might guess, a number of Twitterverse luminaries saw things the way James did.
"Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and injured Gaige Grosskreutz, now 27," CNN commentator Ana Navarro-Cárdenas tweeted. "Think about how much their loved ones have cried, real anguish and grief, not crocodile tears."
"F*** this brat's crocodile tears," Amanda Marcotte, a politics writer for Salon, tweeted. "Self-defense is when you are minding your own business, someone attacks you, and you have to fight back. Rittenhouse picked up a gun and went looking for trouble. He found it and, in a sane world, would go to jail for it."
And Carli Pierson — an attorney and USA Today opinion writer — also invoked the "crocodile tears" charge while writing that Rittenhouse came across as "melodramatic" and shouldn't be believed.
"Regardless of how Rittenhouse tries to twist his story — or twist his sad face into tears — his innocent kid act shouldn't fool anyone," Pierson said, adding that he "could get life in prison if convicted, and that's what he deserves."
Oh, and how can we leave out this one?
C R I S I S\nA C T O Rpic.twitter.com/F0Hnce60S8— Keith Olbermann (@Keith Olbermann) 1636589734
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