Kyle Rittenhouse is back on social media this week, and he’s already drawing the ire of at least one Florida sheriff.
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 appears to be trying to flag incidents that he believes are Second Amendment issues.
That prompted him to share a video Friday of himself standing outside the Walton County Jail while claiming that Michael Rediker “used Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law to legally defend himself when his life was threatened.”
“Michael has done nothing wrong and deserves all of our support,” Rittenhouse said in the video he pinned to his X page.
“We expect an absolute innocence under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law,” he added.
Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson did not take kindly to Rittenhouse’s claims. He re-shared the video via the Walton County Sheriff’s Office’s official X account and issued a video of his own scathing response.
“I don’t normally do that,” Adkinson said. “Normally, I don’t take the time to speak in public comment 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 irresponsible. I would say it is motivated by many factors, none of them in the interest of justice where individuals, particularly Kyle Rittenhouse, Anthony and Saba, frame him here for the attempted murder of Walton, Anthony and Saba. Mr. Keen’s Thursday County as a Stand Your Ground case or wrapping it in the Constitution or that it’s a Second Amendment case.”
Adkinson was far from ready.
“After 30-something years of doing this, I’m very rarely offended personally, but I’m actually kind of disgusted by them,” the sheriff continued. “There was a man who lost his life yesterday. A father, a husband with two small children, who was killed, unarmed on his property, unprovoked by an individual who drove a tractor over half a mile onto the victim’s property. Once there, he beat his wife in front of eyewitnesses. When the husband, who the wife did not come to confront, was not helped out of there to help his wife. from ground, the suspect shot him in the face. There was no struggle between them, and as he lay on the ground, this suspect, Michael Rediker, made some comments for which he will answer in court, for committing a serious assault on this man in front of this man. again, unarmed, on his own property, after his wife had been beaten, and no confrontation.
“Now, somehow out of that, Mr. Rittenhouse and his attorney, Anthony Sabatini, have established that this is the great Stand Your Ground case,” Adkinson continued. “Well, I’ll tell you this. I’ll bet my badge on it. Not only does this not last, Mr. Rediker will either face the ultimate penalty in the state of Florida or God willing the rest of his natural life in prison. Because on Christmas morning two weeks from now, there are two elementary school aged boys, two children, who won’t all have wives, so they won’t all have wives. two idiots can get more Facebook likes and call it a constitutional issue.”
Then Adkinson brought him home.
“I think you’re both jokes and I don’t think you should make a cent out of someone else’s suffering,” he said. “So if you don’t like it, well, you can file it under I don’t care. I know people aren’t going to like it, and I don’t care about it. 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 out of it. And I think I should probably give it to the public, but I think I should give it to the public. it has nothing to do with the Second Amendment or Stand Your Ground.So I hope many of you will tell these two buggers what you think of what they are doing to this family’s suffering.
“Don’t let them make a dime per like.”
WMBB reported that Rediker, 44, was arrested Thursday and charged with one count of open murder, assault and three counts of aggravated assault.
Rittenhouse made headlines this week when she 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 alongside a pair of photos of him with a girl.
Then he explained what it was 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 fortunately the Lord provides.”
Rittenhouse made several other posts during the day, including one in which he said the killing of Charlie Kirk convinced him he “couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer.”
“So I’m back,” he wrote. “Not quietly. Not halfway. I’m coming back in a big way.”
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