Judge allows father of convicted domestic abuser killed while attacking Kyle Rittenhouse to file a wrongful death lawsuit



Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in November 2021 of all charges in the shootings that led to the deaths of a convicted domestic abuser and a pedophile as well as the maiming of of an armed leftist during the 2020 leftist riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Despite a jury determining that the young man had acted in self-defense, a federal judge ruled this week that the father of one of the deceased can move forward with a wrongful death suit against Rittenhouse.

What's the background?

Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake Jr. in August 2020. The shooting was deemed to be justified since Blake was armed with a knife, was wanted on a sexual assault warrant, resisted arrest, and reportedly attempted to flee in a car containing someone else's kids. Sheskey was cleared to return to duty. The Department of Justice did not pursue further charges.

In the aftermath of the justified shooting, riots broke out in Kenosha, culminating in then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse's shooting of three rioters on Aug. 25, two of whom died of their injuries.

Anthony Huber, 26, one of the deceased, was part of the mob that descended upon Rittenhouse.

Huber attacked Rittenhouse with a skateboard and did his best to disarm him, but his best wasn't good enough. Rittenhouse, keen not to surrender his fate to the whim of the mob, fought to maintain control over his rifle. In the melee, Huber managed to catch a bullet in the chest.

Rittenhouse was later acquitted of charges pertaining to Huber's shooting.

Possible return to court

Although a jury of his peers determined Rittenhouse was in the right, two months prior to his acquittal, Rittenhouse was named in a civil lawsuit filed in the U.S. Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee by Huber's father, John Huber, reported Fox 26.

Huber's lawsuit accuses police officers of allowing for a dangerous situation that violated his son's constitutional rights and resulted in his death, reported the Associated Press. Huber's lawsuit also claims that Rittenhouse conspired with law enforcement to bring harm to the rioters.

The suit suggests that law enforcement "deputized these armed individuals, conspired with them and ratified their actions by letting them patrol the streets armed with deadly weapons to met out justice as they saw fit."

John Huber said in a statement that the police "walked away from their duties and turned over the streets of Kenosha to Kyle Rittenhouse and other armed vigilantes. If they had done their job, my son would still be alive today."

Huber is seeking an unspecified sum from city officials, police officers, and Rittenhouse.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman denied motions filed by Rittenhouse and the government defendants seeking to dismiss the suit.

Adelman indicated that Huber's death "could plausibly be regarded as having been proximately caused by the actions of the governmental defendants."

The judge's allowance does not equate to an opinion of any kind on the merits of the case, suggested Rittenhouse attorney Shane Martin. Rather, it simply means the suit can proceed to the next phase.

"While we respect the judge’s decision, we do not believe there is any evidence of a conspiracy and we are confident, just as a Kenosha jury found, Kyle’s actions that evening were not wrongful and were undertaken in self-defense," said Martin.

Anand Swaminathan, one of the attorneys representing the parents of Rittenhouse's dead attacker, said that the judge's decision gets the Huber family "one step closer to justice for their son's needless death."

Real family man

According to Snopes, Huber threatened his brother and grandmother with a knife, strangled and suffocated his brother, and then forced them to follow his orders.

The Washington Post reported that Huber, holding a six-inch butcher knife, had threatened to "'gut' his brother 'like a pig.'"

During the Rittenhouse trial, Corey Chirafisi, then a lawyer for the defendant, claimed that Huber had also said, "I’m going to burn the house down with all you f***ers in it."

He was charged with felonies, convicted, and then served a stint in jail in 2012.

Huber went back to prison in 2017 after violating the terms of his probation.

The violence-prone skateboarder with a history of heroin use came home from prison in 2018, but this time raged against a woman: his own sister.

Fox News Digital reported that he was convicted of domestic abuse and disorderly conduct.

It would appear that the next notable time he took out his rage on someone else proved to be his last.

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Whoopi Goldberg declares Kyle Rittenhouse committed 'murder' despite not-guilty verdict, defends Anthony Huber who 'wasn't doing anything'



The co-hosts of "The View" like clockwork Monday jumped on the leftist bandwagon to canonize Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz, the less-than-savory individuals who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020 — and they also ripped Rittenhouse as a murderer despite a jury agreeing that he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot Rosenbaum and Huber and wounded Grosskreutz.

What are the details?

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg, as you might expect, wasn't having Rittenhouse's not-guilty verdict.

She began her soliloquy by playing a clip of Huber's father on CNN holding what appeared to be an urn containing his son's ashes and railing against Rittenhouse going free and being called a "hero."

Goldberg — who described Huber as "one of the young men shot and killed by Rittenhouse" — after the CNN clip insisted Huber "wasn't doing anything" and that he was going after who he figured was "an active shooter."

'To me it's murder'

"He saw someone get shot. He thought he was doing the right thing," Goldberg added. "So ... even all the excuses in the world does not change the fact that three people got shot. Two people were murdered. To me it's murder. I'm sorry."

Despite video evidence that Huber smashed his skateboard against Rittenhouse's head and tried to take his gun — and a jury saying Rittenhouse was not guilty for fatally shooting Huber in the wake of the attack.

'Victim character assassination'

On cue, co-host Sunny Hostin decried what she saw as "victim character assassination" against Rosenbaum, Huber, and Grosskreutz.

"Rittenhouse didn't know the background of those guys," she said. "He didn't know that one, uh, you know, may have molested a child. Or another one had mental issues."

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Wait. Back up. Did you catch those key words — "may have"?

Hostin — who's an attorney, no less — for some reason didn't know Rosenbaum alone had mental issues and was convicted and served time for child molestation. There is no "may have" about it.

She also criticized Rittenhouse for being in Kenosha that night "to protect property — as if property is more important than life." Fortunately for Sunny, it wasn't her property or lifetime of efforts getting torched.

Indeed, prior to Goldberg's pronouncements, Hostin rather dismissively mentioned that in Kenosha "there was a very small group of folks" — yes, "folks" — "that, you know, burned down some buildings, ransacked some stores." No biggie to her, it seemed.

What are the odds?

Here's a question that hasn't seemed to have entered the heads of our friends at "The View" while they defend Rosenbaum, Huber, and Grosskruetz.

What are the odds that all three of them — who attacked and then were shot by Rittenhouse — have criminal records? And in the cases of Rosenbaum and Huber, some pretty vile stuff?

Oh, and what about the previously unidentified man who took aim at Rittenhouse's head with a jump kick before escaping into the night unscathed? Yup, not unlike his aforementioned comrades, Maurice Freeland hit the streets of Kenosha that night with an extensive criminal record.

When one considers the radical leftist mob they all ran with that night, one might conclude that the odds of past criminal behavior by Rosenbaum, Huber, and Grosskruetz (and Freeland) is pretty high, indeed.

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