When Kyle Rittenhouse returned to social media back in December, he promised that there were big things to come.
A month later, those big things don’t seem to have materialized for him, yet. Instead, Rittenhouse who is famous for shooting three people, killing two, during a protest of racial injustice in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020 before claiming self-defense and being acquitted of all charges, seems to be using his time on social media mostly to post slurs and tease the idea of going to Minnesota as ICE meets with protesters there.
His latest version of this came on Tuesday as he shared a photo posing with a High Ground Defense M134HG Minigun on X.
“I thought you’d take this in Minneapolis,” Rittenhouse wrote. “Thoughts?
People were quick to respond, and they didn’t do well for him.
“@FBI locks him up,” one person replied.
“Get your schtick to be ‘I killed a man and got away with it, so let me joke about killing more Americans,'” Skyler Shuler replied on X.
“You look more stupid every year!” another wrote. “Good luck man.”
“You take too much joy in killing humans – that’s not a compliment,” Colorado Mick wrote on X.
“You should repent and save yourself while you still can,” suggested Jesse Brenneman.
“Take it and keep it to yourself,” commented Michael Woods. “Bad karma to be messing around like that.”
“Dude, no,” Braden Pace replied. “You have a W with that release. As you should. But don’t do it. You’re making responsible gun owners look bad.”
It’s not the first time Rittenhouse has joked about the scene in Minnesota.
“FAFO — don’t try to hit an ICE agent with your vehicle and you won’t end up in the box forever,” he wrote on X after ICE office Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. “It’s pretty simple.”
He followed that up with another post that read, “After thinking about it, should I travel across the state line to Minnesota?”
That, of course, caused a social media stir then, too.
“How do you even look at yourself in the mirror in the morning?” one person answered.
“Someone was killed (expletive) (expletive),” wrote another. “There’s nothing to laugh about you (expletive) really bad and I can’t wait for karma to catch up.”
Rittenhouse announced in December that he was returning to social media and said the Charlie Kirk killing convinced him he “couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer.”
“So I’m back,” he wrote. “Not quietly. Not halfway. I’ll come back big.”
But just a week after his return he found himself being ripped online by a Republican Sheriff from Florida.
This happened after he filmed a video 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 for 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.”
Read the original article at pennlive.com.