Vigilante hero Kyle Rittenhouse is still waiting for the final legal chapter to close in Kenosha, a city whose leaders chose cowardice over duty and chaos over law.
When government refuses to protect its citizens, often the vacuum does not stay empty. Order does not politely wait its turn. Someone always steps in. In Kenosha, that someone was a 17 year old kid who showed more spine than the entire political class running the city.
Kyle Rittenhouse was cleared of every criminal charge by a jury that actually watched the evidence instead of swallowing slogans. Yet six years later, civil lawsuits still crawl through the courts against him and against government officials who deliberately stood down while their city burned. No urgency. No accountability. Just the slow bureaucratic grind designed to punish by exhaustion.
August 2020 was the moment Kenosha exposed itself. Leadership refused to act. Law enforcement was ordered to stand down. Arsonists roamed freely. Property was destroyed. Citizens were abandoned. This was not incompetence. It was a conscious political choice.
Kyle Rittenhouse arrived with a rifle. Not to riot. Not to loot. Not to terrorize anyone. He showed up where the state refused to show up. The outcome was inevitable. He was chased, assaulted, knocked to the ground, and attacked by three violent aggressors. He defended himself. Two thugs died. One survived and immediately reinvented himself as a civil plaintiff.
Then came the political persecution. A shameless feeding frenzy. Charges stacked high, facts buried low, all meant to appease the mob and preserve careers. The jury was unimpressed. They watched the videos. They heard the testimony. They rejected the lies. Acquittal. Reality punched back.
But the circus did not stop. The families of the dead attackers sued. The surviving attacker sued. Government agencies were dragged in too, because someone had to answer for the adults who fled the room when responsibility showed up. Years later, the cases still inch forward, proving that civil court is where truth goes to be delayed and justice is rationed.
Here is the real punchline. If politicians had not ordered police to stand down, there would have been no riots, no armed teenager, and no lawsuits. The greatest legal exposure now belongs to the very officials who engineered the disaster and then hid behind procedure. I am in no hurry. These things tend to collapse under the weight of their own lies.
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