When Kyle Rittenhouse returned to social media back in December, he promised 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 racial injustice protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020 before claiming self-defense and being acquitted of all charges, appears to be using his time on social media mostly posting slurs and teasing the idea of going to Minnesota as ICE is met with protesters there.
His latest version of that came Tuesday as he shared a photo posing with a High Ground Defense M134HG Minigun on X.
“Thinking of taking this to Minneapolis,” Rittenhouse wrote. “Thoughts?
Folks were quick to respond, and it didn’t go well for him.
“@FBI lock him up,” one person replied.
“We get it your schtick is ‘I murdered a guy and got away with it, so let me joke about murdering more Americans,’” Skyler Shuler replied on X.
“You look dumber every year!” another wrote. “Congrats dude.”
“You take way too much joy in killing human beings — that’s not a compliment,” Colorado Mick wrote on X.
“You should repent and save your soul while you still can,” Jesse Brenneman suggested.
“Take it and keep it to yourself,” Michael Woods commented. “Bad karma to be agitating like this.”
“Dude, no,” Braden Pace replied. “You got a W with that acquittal. As you should have. But don’t do this. 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 and hit a ICE agent with your vehicle and you won’t end up in the forever box,” 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, kicked up a social media stir then, too.
“How do you even look yourself in the mirror in the morning?” one person replied.
“Someone was murdered you (expletive) (expletive),” another wrote. “There is nothing to laugh about you (expletive) truly are evil and I can’t wait for karma to catch up.”
Rittenhouse announced in December that he was returning to social media saying that the assassination of Charlie Kirk convinced him he “couldn’t sit on the sidelines anymore.”
“So I’m back,” he wrote. “Not quietly. Not halfway. I’m coming back in a big way.”
But just a week into his return he found himself getting ripped online by a Republican Sheriff from Florida.
That came 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 lawfully defend himself when his life was put in jeopardy.”
“Michael did nothing wrong, and he deserves all our support,” Rittenhouse said in the video which he pinned to his X page.
“We are expecting an outright not guilty 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 via the Walton County Sheriff Office’s official X account, and issued a video of his own scathing response.
“I don’t normally do this,” Adkinson said. “I don’t normally take the time to speak to public comments on cases, certainly not open cases. But in this particular situation, a murder that occurred 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 and his attorney, Anthony Sabatini, are attempting to frame the murder here in Walton County on Thursday of Mr. Keen as a Stand Your Ground case or wrapping it in the Constitution or that it is Second Amendment case.”
Adkinson was far from done.
“After 30-something years of doing this, I very rarely get personally offended, but I’m actually just kind of disgusted with them,” the sheriff continued. “There was a man who lost his life yesterday. A father, a husband with two small children, who was murdered, unarmed on his own property, unprovoked by an individual who drove a tractor over a half a mile onto the victim’s property. Once there, batters his wife in front of eyewitnesses. When the husband, whom there had been no confrontation with, gets out to come over and help pick his wife up off the ground the suspect shoots him in the face. He was unarmed. There was no fight between them. There was no attack, and as he is laying dying on the ground, this suspect, Michael Rediker, stood over him and made some comments for which he is going to answer to in court. At the same time, he committed aggravated assault on multiple other people because he murdered this man in front of witnesses that watched this as this man was murdered. Again, unarmed, on his own property, after his wife had been battered, and no confrontation.
“Now, somehow out of that, Mr. Rittenhouse and his attorney, Anthony Sabatini, have determined that this is the great Stand Your Ground case,” Adkinson continued. “Well, I’ll tell you this. I’ll bet my badge on this. Not only is that not a stand your ground, Mr. Rediker will face either the ultimate penalty in the state of Florida or God willing the rest of his natural life in prison. Because, come Christmas morning in two weeks, there are two little boys elementary school age, two children, that are not going to have their father, and there’s a wife whose not going to have her husband all so these two idiots can get more likes on their Facebook and call it a Constitutional issue.”
Adkinson then brought it home.
“I think both of you are jokes, and I don’t think you should make a damn cent off the suffering of someone else,” he said. “So, if you don’t like that, well you can file that under I don’t really give a damn. I know people aren’t’ going to like this, 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 news on it. And I probably shouldn’t give them this, but I think the public deserves to know this doesn’t have a damn thing 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 make on penny off a like.”
