Don Lemon Rips Rittenhouse: ‘Vigilantism … If I See Someone Breaking The Law, I Call The Cops’

Speaking on Friday morning, CNN’s Don Lemon, who looked at the riots plaguing the country in 2020 and tried to justify them, ripped into Kyle Rittenhouse, responding to CNN’s Brianna Marie Keilar calling his actions “white wannabe vigilantism” by agreeing it was “vigilantism,” snapping, “This is the ultimate entitlement,” and adding, “If I see someone breaking the law, I call the cops.”

In January, Lemon justified the protests  that had plagued the country with violence and looting during the summer of 2020 as he compared them to the Capitol riot on January 6, saying, “I’m sick of people comparing. You can’t compare what happened this summer to what happened at the Capitol. It’s two different things. … One is built on people, on racial justice, on criminal justice, right, on reform, on police not beating up – or police treating people of color differently than they do whites. Okay? That is not a lie. Those are facts. Go look at them.”

Keilar prompted Lemon’s tirade by saying of the trials of Kyle Rittenouse and the alleged killers of Ahmaud Arbery, “There’s this theme of white wannabe vigilantiism that I think encapsulates both of these trials and I wonder what you think about, look, laws aside, how’s the defense doing aside, what do you think about just this idea that this is something people do that in some places this is still ok.”

“Well, it’s the same idea as I was saying about the judge,” Lemon answered. “This is okay because people are used to it. This is the ultimate entitlement. That again, you can insert yourself into a situation with a gun that you’re not supposed to be carrying, kill two people, injure, and it is you’re made to be a hero by the public. You see someone jogging down the street and you take it into your hands; you think it’s your responsibility to stop that person when you’re not even sure if they are committing a crime because, what, it is your street, it is your town, it is ‘your country.’”

“It is the ultimate degree of entitlement when people believe that this is how they’re supposed to be. What the right is saying about Kyle Rittenhouse is that, ‘Well, the government didn’t do its job. So it took a 17 year old kid to come in and do what was right.’ That’s vigilantism. That’s not what – people are not supposed to

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