It was just a matter of time before Kyle Rittenhouse injected himself into the controversy over alleged killer Karmelo Anthony, the Black 17-year-old charged in the stabbing death of a white athlete at a Dallas-area track meet.
Many have cited Rittenhouse’s case when arguing against a right-wing mob that has declared Anthony guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf, also 17, even though he claims he acted in self-defense.
Rittenhouse, who is white, was 17 when he shot two men dead who he says threatened him with harm in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, in August 2020. MAGA leaped to his defense, but many of those same people have expressed outrage now that a judge has reduced Anthony’s bond from $1 million to $250,0000.
Anthony is now under house arrest, fitted with an ankle monitor.
The suspect’s family and the judge, Angela Tucker, a Black Republican, have since been subjected to a torrent of criticism and racist attacks online from MAGA social media influencers, some of whom say this case is an example of “anti-white racism.”
“There is a large population who live in fantasy land and have created a false reality in their head about what happened that day,” said Collin Rugg, an aggregator with a big MAGA following. “They also think getting touched is a good reason to stab someone to death in the heart (it’s not). Never underestimate how stupid people can be.”
Rittenhouse has dealt with a similar backlash after offering his commentary in a post published Wednesday on X.
“So, the left thinks what Karmelo Anthony did was self-defense, but what I did wasn’t? Can someone please help this make sense?” Rittenhouse wrote. He also called Anthony’s family spokesman, activist Dominique Alexander, “plain old stupid” in a separate post in which he goes on to hawk wholesale firearms.
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