Kyle Rittenhouse returned to social media this week, and he’s already drawing the ire of at least one sheriff in Florida.
Rittenhouse, who shot three people, killing two, during a racial injustice protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, claimed self-defense and was acquitted of all charges. He remains controversial, however, and his new gig seems to be trying to call out incidents he believes are Second Amendment issues.
This prompted him to share a video on Friday of himself standing in front of the Walton County Jail while claiming that Michael Rediker “used Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law to legally defend himself when his life was put in danger.”
“Michael has done nothing wrong, and he deserves all of our support,” Rittenhouse said in a video posted to his X page.
“We are expecting a not guilty plea under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law,” he added.
Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson did not take kindly to Rittenhouse’s claims. He reshared the video through the official X account of the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, and released a video of his own fierce response.
“Normally I don’t do that,” Adkinson said. “Normally I don’t take the time to speak to public comments about cases, certainly not open cases. But in this particular situation, a murder that happened yesterday in Walton County, I feel compelled to respond to what I can only call wildly irresponsible. I would say motivated by many factors, none of them in the interest of justice in which individuals, particularly Kyle Rittenhouse, Anthony and his Saba are prompting his attempt for Waltorney’s murder. County on Thursday of Mr. Keen as a Stand Your Ground case or wrapped in the Constitution or that it is a Second Amendment case.”
Adkinson was far from done.
“After 30-something years of doing this, I’m very rarely personally offended, but actually I’m just a little bit disgusted by them,” the sheriff continued. “There was a man who lost his life yesterday. A father, a man with two small children, who was killed, unarmed on his own property, unprovoked by an individual who drove a tractor on the victim’s property for more than half a mile. Once there, he beat his wife in front of eye witnesses. When the man, who was not confronted with his wife, there was no confrontation to put up with his wife. from the ground the suspect shoots him in the face. There was no struggle between them. There was no attack, and while he was lying on the ground, this suspect, Michael Rediker, stood on him and made some comments to which he will answer in court at the same time, he committed an aggravated assault on this other man, without a weapon, on his own property beaten, and no confrontation.
“Now, somehow, Mr. Rittenhouse and his attorney, Anthony Sabatini, have determined that this is the big Stand Your Ground case,” Adkinson continued. “Well, I’ll tell you this. I’ll bet my badge on this. Not only that you don’t stand your ground, Mr. Rediker will face either the ultimate punishment in the state of Florida or God willing the rest of his natural life in prison. Because, on Christmas morning in two weeks, there are two little boys of elementary school age, two children, who will not have their father, and they will not have their husband for two women idiots can get more likes on their Facebook and call it a Constitutional issue.”
Adkinson then brought her home.
“I think you two are jokes, and I don’t think you should make a damn penny out of somebody else’s suffering,” he said. “So, if you don’t like that, well you can submit that under I don’t really give a damn. I know people won’t like that, and I don’t care about that either. I’m so disgusted and sad for the Keen family and their loss and the fact that these two yo-yos are going to try to make money and headlines on it. It has nothing to do with the Second Amendment or Stand Your Ground So, I hope that many of you will reach out and tell these two jack-wagons what you think about what they are doing to this family suffering.
“Don’t let them do a like on a penny off.”
WMBB reported that Rediker, 44, was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of open murder, battery, and three counts of aggravated battery.
Rittenhouse made headlines this week when he returned to social media after leaving in June and shared some big news.
“I’m back on social media, I’m back in the fight, and I’m here to stay,” he wrote on X along with a couple of photos of him with a girl.
Then explain what it’s all about.
“For a quick update, 6 months ago I made the best decision of my life and married my best friend,” he wrote. “(Bella Rittenhouse), I couldn’t be happier. I love you beautiful.”
She replied, “I love you!”
One of his followers replied, “Couldn’t be happier for you Kyle. Having your whole world turned upside down and fighting through it. Man, that’s awesome.”
“I’m still being sued for $20 million,” Rittenhouse replied. “But thankfully the Lord provides.”
Rittenhouse made several other posts throughout the day, including one where he said that the killing of Charlie Kirk convinced him that he “couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer.”
“So I’m back,” he wrote. “Not quietly. Not halfway. I’ll come back big.”
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