Topics: Kyle Rittenhouse, Twitter, Social Media, US News, Black Lives Matter
Kyle Rittenhouse has returned to Twitter with a life update.
In 2020, a then-teenage Rittenhouse was charged with multiple crimes including two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of attempted homicide, and two counts of reckless endangerment.
The charges related to the shooting of three men (two of whom died) in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020 during a time of civil unrest.
The three men had been part of a Black Lives Matter protest about police brutality in America after Wisconsin African American man Jacob Blake had been been shot and left paralyzed by a white police officer.
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Rittenhouse was 17 at the time and traveled from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha with a friend to supposedly protect a local dealership from being vandalized by protestors, The Independent reported.
Rittenhouse went armed with a semi-automatic AR-15-style assault rifle, which he fired when he ran into trouble with some protestors. Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were killed in the shooting, while Gaige Grosskreutz was injured.
Rittenhouse always claimed he'd acted in self defense, and a jury ruled in his favour in November 2021, acquitting him of all charges he was facing.
Rittenhouse's defense attorney Mark Richards said on the day of the verdict, per NPR: "He has a huge sense of relief for what the jury did to him today. He wishes none of this would have ever happened, but as he said when he testified, he did not start this."
"To say that we're relieved would be a gross misunderstatement," he added.
Four years on from his run in with the law and Rittenhouse reportedly works for a gun shop in Florida. He has also started his own YouTube channel called Tactically Inappropriate which has almost 75,000 subscribers.
He's been active on other social media platforms for some time but has only just rejoined Twitter in recent days, where he announced that he tied the knot six months ago.
"I'm back on social media, I'm back in the fight, and i'm here to stay," he wrote on December 10.
Rittenhouse continued to pen alongside a pair of wedding snaps: "For a quick update, 6 months ago I made the best decision of my life and married my best friend,@BellRittenhouse, I couldn’t be happier. I love you beautiful."
He further noted that other 'big announcements' will be made in the not too distant future.
