On Wednesday, the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 was granted the right to sue Rittenhouse, police officers, and other defendants.
Anthony Huber’s father filed a lawsuit in 2021, accusing police of putting his son in a dangerous situation that violated his constitutional rights and led to his death.
According to Anthony Huber’s father, John, Rittenhouse had teamed up with the police to harm protesters when he was 17.
John Huber is suing the city, the police, and Rittenhouse for an undisclosed amount of damages.
Rittenhouse and the government defendants filed motions to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit, but Judge Lynn Adelman dismissed those motions and said the lawsuit could move forward.
Due to improper service of the complaint, Rittenhouse claimed that the case against him should be dismissed. Rittenhouse “is almost certainly evading service,” Adelman said.
After over 100 hours of searching, John Huber’s attorneys and investigators finally reached and served Rittenhouse’s sister, who said Rittenhouse wasn’t home. The judge accepted that as sufficient proof of service.
“Rittenhouse has been deliberately cagey about his whereabouts,” Adelman wrote. “Although he denies living in Florida, he does not identify the place that he deems to be his residence.”
The decision brings John Huber and Karen Bloom, the parents of Anthony Huber, “one step closer to justice for their son’s needless death,” said the families attorney Anand Swaminathan.
“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.
