Rittenhouse’s actions became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in November 2021 after testifying he acted in self-defense. Rittenhouse was charged with homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangering for killing Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum and wounding a third person with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle in the summer of 2020 during a tumultuous night of protests over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer. “The Kenosha officials that created a powder keg situation by their actions tried to claim that they cannot be held accountable for their unconstitutional conduct that argument was soundly rejected today,” Swaminathan said in a statement. The ruling puts Anthony Huber’s family “one step closer to justice for their son’s needless death,” said Anand Swaminathan, one of the attorneys for John Huber and Karen Bloom, parents of Anthony Huber. Attorneys for law enforcement and Kenosha officials sued also did not immediately return emailed messages. Rittenhouse’s attorneys did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment. “Although he denies living in Florida, he does not identify the place that he deems to be his residence.” “Rittenhouse has been deliberately cagey about his whereabouts,” Adelman wrote. Adelman said that was sufficient to qualify as being served. The lawsuit was served on Rittenhouse’s sister, who said that he wasn’t home. Adelman dismissed that, saying that Rittenhouse “is almost certainly evading service.”Īttorneys and private investigators for John Huber spent over 100 hours trying to locate Rittenhouse, tracking down addresses in seven states, before they found the home of his mother and sister in Florida. Rittenhouse had argued that the case against him should be dismissed because he wasn’t properly served with the lawsuit. In allowing the case against Rittenhouse and the others to proceed, the judge said that Anthony Huber’s death “could plausibly be regarded as having been proximately caused by the actions of the governmental defendants.” District Judge Lynn Adelman on Wednesday dismissed motions filed by Rittenhouse and the government defendants seeking to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit. John Huber is seeking unspecified damages from city officials, officers and Rittenhouse. Anthony Huber’s father, John Huber, also alleged that Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, conspired with law enforcement to cause harm to protestors. The father of Anthony Huber, one of two men shot and killed by Rittenhouse, filed the lawsuit in 2021, accusing officers of allowing for a dangerous situation that violated his son’s constitutional rights and resulted in his death. (AP) - A federal judge in Wisconsin on Wednesday ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.
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