Kyle Breaks the Internet: Social Media On Fire After Rittenhouse Acquittal

Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal on murder charges sparked meltdowns from liberals and celebrations from conservatives in equal measure, setting social networking sites buzzing with hyperbolic claims and counter-accusations.

Social media erupted on Friday after the Jury in the Kenosha shootings trial acquitted teenage defendant Kyle Rittenhouse on all counts.

Rittenhouse, 18, was found not guilty on all charges, including reckless and intentional homicide, after shooting three men, killing two, during racial justice riots on the night of August 25, 2020.

The youth had travelled with others to the Wisconsin city of Kenosha, where his father lives, to help guard local businesses against looters and arsonists after several nights of rioting following the police shooting of Black man Jacob Blake.

WATCH AGAIN: KYLE RITTENHOUSE LEARNS HIS FATE AT KENOSHA TRIAL pic.twitter.com/XgGnuzypzf

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 19, 2021

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was one of the first on the attack risking a libel suit when he called Rittenhouse, who was legally a minor at the time of the shooting, a "violent, dangerous man", while defending convicted child abuser Rosenbaum and wife-batterer Huber as "victims".

Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today.

The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.

To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement. https://t.co/TwaI2ghgM5

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) November 19, 2021

This verdict is disgusting and it sends a horrible message to this country.

Where is the justice in this?

We can't let this go. We need stronger laws to stop violent extremism from within our own nation.

Now is the time. https://t.co/r8TTicFn0U

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) November 19, 2021

And New York Congressman Adriano Espaillat also opened himself up to litigation, while indulging in race-baiting.

Kyle Rittenhouse is living proof that white tears can still forestall justice.

A murderer is once again walking free today — our system is terribly broken. https://t.co/3FKF4c4R3t

— Adriano Espaillat (@RepEspaillat) November 19, 2021

The liberal intelligentsia were enraged, claiming the verdict showed "white supremacy" was ascendant — even in Democrat-governed Wisconsin — and "vigilantism" had returned to the streets.

I knew it. Kyle Rittenhouse is proof that white people can still break the law, carry illegal weapons, shoot and kill people, and get away with it in America by shedding tears and claiming self-defense.

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 19, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse claims he went to provide “medical support” that he was not qualified to give, while holding a gun that he was not legally allowed to carry, in a state where he did not live. He then killed 2 people and shot a third. Now he walks free because of white privilege.

— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) November 19, 2021

The white supremacist system of power makes it clear that white people can avoid any legal consequences, and that if an active shooter is murdering people, you would be in the wrong if you tried to stop them.

Vigilante and white supremacist murder have just been legalized. https://t.co/GQIcyLbX8i

— Anastasia Fennec (@AnastasiaFennec) November 19, 2021

The Rittenhouse verdict gives them permission to kill. I've lost the definition of right and wrong.

— Patti LuPone (@PattiLuPone) November 19, 2021

The return of vigilante justice? America looking a lot more like the early1900s than how we thought the 2000’s would shake out. https://t.co/zQJhj6dDvf

— Jamal Simmons (@JamalSimmons) November 19, 2021

I knew Rittenhouse would be acquitted but it is gutting to witness the inevitable, to know there will be no consequences for the judge, and to know Rittenhouse and others like him will be more emboldened to be openly white supremacist vigilantes. It's hollowing.

— roxane gay (@rgay) November 19, 2021

The fact that the three men Rittenhouse shot were all white still had to explained away.

In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619.

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) November 19, 2021

Some clearly wanted retribution against Rittenhouse under any circumstances.

Kyle Rittenhouse can burn in the deepest, darkest, most painful pits of hell.

This is not justice.

— Three Slimes in a Trenchcoat (@ExandShadow) November 19, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse can burn in the deepest, darkest, most painful pits of hell.

This is not justice.

— Three Slimes in a Trenchcoat (@ExandShadow) November 19, 2021

But conservatives celebrated Rittenhouse's acquittal — and accused the mainstream media and President Joe Biden of orchestrating a campaign against him, led off by the son of former president Donald Trump.

The Rittenhouse jury just gave Biden his second colonoscopy of the day.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 19, 2021

Biden went on CNN last year and accused Rittenhouse of being part of a white supremacist militia

I hope Kyle sues the sh*t out of himpic.twitter.com/47UnoV9VHL

— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) November 19, 2021

Time for Kyle Rittenhouse to start suing lying corporate media pedo propagandists and Joe Biden himself.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) November 19, 2021

You know, at this time there is an argument that we should say that the system worked and everything is groovy and not gloat, but I’m not going to do any of that. These charges were bullshit from the beginning and you liberals can suck it. You lost. Kiss my ass. Losers. pic.twitter.com/6mciBkfMdW

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 19, 2021

Others expressed fears of renewed rioting in the midwestern city, where Democrat state Governor Tony Evers had already put 500 National Guard troops on standby.

People in the media love to talk about misinformation causing harm. Let's be clear, any riots that happen as a result of the Rittenhouse verdict are primarily down to the deceitful coverage and outright lies the media told us about this case.

— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) November 19, 2021

Pray for Kenosha tonight

— Jack Po-So-Bik (@JackPosobiec) November 19, 2021

Left-wing accounts are furious and are inciting mass violence on Twitter after Kyle #Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all the charges. #Kenosha pic.twitter.com/M62aHnqrjB

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 19, 2021