Family of Slain Anthony Huber Sues Kenosha and its Law Enforcement, Claiming They ‘Conspired’ With Killer Kyle Rittenhouse

The family of a man who Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse killed has sued Kenosha and its law enforcement departments.

On Aug. 25, 2020, then 17-year-old Illinois native Kyle Rittenhouse went to a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to allegedly confront protesters who were speaking out over the police shooting of Jacob Blake with a fully loaded Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifle. His actions there led to the deaths of two people and one person getting injured.

As his trial continues, a family has filed a lawsuit against Kenosha and the Kenosha Police Department, claiming law enforcement “conspired” with Rittenhouse. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin received the filing on Tuesday on behalf of Anthony Huber, one of Rittenhouse’s alleged victims.

The list of defendants in the lawsuit includes the former chief of police, the Kenosha County sheriff, along with “John Doe police officers of the Kenosha Police Department and Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department.”

“Astonishingly, the Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, and their supervising officials and police officers, did not treat Rittenhouse or any of the other armed individuals patrolling the streets as a threat to the safety of themselves or the citizens they were sworn to protect,” reads the suit. It goes on to say that if Rittenhouse were Black, police “would have acted much differently.”

“Instead, Defendants deputized these armed individuals, conspired with them, and ratified their actions by letting them patrol the streets, armed with deadly weapons, to mete out justice as they saw fit,” it continued.