When Kyle Rittenhouse returned to social media in December, he promised big things to come.
A month later, those big things still don’t seem to have materialized for him. Instead, Rittenhouse, who is famous for shooting three people, killing two, during a racial injustice protest in Kenosha, Wis., in 2020 before claiming self-defense and being acquitted of all charges, appears to be using his time on social media mostly by posting insults and teasing the idea of going to Minnesota because ICE is meeting the protesters there.
His latest version came on Tuesday, when he shared a photo posing with an M134HG High Ground Defense Minigun on X.
“I’m thinking of taking this to Minneapolis,” Rittenhouse wrote. “Thoughts?
People responded quickly and it didn’t go well for him.
“@FBI shut it down,” one person replied.
“We understand that your schtick is, ‘I killed a guy and got away with it, so let me joke about killing more Americans,'” Skyler Shuler responded to X.
“You look dumber every year!” wrote another. “Congratulations man.”
“You take 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,” suggested Jesse Brenneman.
“Take it and keep it to yourself,” commented Michael Woods. “Bad karma to act like that.”
“Dude, no,” Braden Pace replied. “You got a W with this acquittal. As you should. But don’t do that. You’re making responsible gun owners look bad.”
This isn’t the first time Rittenhouse has joked about the Minnesota scene.
“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’s 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 stir on social media then as well.
“How do you look in the mirror in the morning?” one person answered.
“Someone killed you (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, saying the Charlie Kirk assassination convinced him he “couldn’t stand on the sidelines any longer.”
“So I’m back,” he wrote. “Not quietly. Not halfway. I’m coming back in a big way.”
But just a week after his return, he found himself exposed online by a Republican sheriff in Florida.
This came after he filmed a video 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 was 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 earn a penny per like.”
Read the original article at pennlive.com.