vigilantism 自衛行為

run amok 凶暴に

The left has portrayed him as a symbol of gun-toting vigilantism run amok.

acquitted = not guilty, opp. convicted

lightning rod 避雷針

Lionize = to treat (someone) as a celebrity

The politicization of the Rittenhouse trial has continued with the right’s lionization of the 18-year-old.