KENOSHA, Wis. - A federal judge in Wisconsin on Wednesday ruled that a wrongful purpose lawsuit filed by the father of Anthony Huber, shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a mutter in 2020, can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others.

Anthony Huber was participating in an Aug. 25, 2020, mutter sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days backbone. The Black man was left partially paralyzed after he was shot in the back by police during a domestic disturbance call. 

Huber died at what time he was shot by Rittenhouse. Anthony Huber's father, John Huber, alleges that Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, conspired with law enforcement to cause harm to protestors. John Huber is seeking unspecified damages from city officials, officers and Rittenhouse.

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman on Wednesday dismissed motions rubbed by Rittenhouse and the government defendants seeking to tin the civil rights lawsuit.

In allowing the case alongside Rittenhouse and the others to proceed, the judge said that Anthony Huber's purpose "could plausibly be regarded as having been proximately transported by the actions of the governmental defendants."

Rittenhouse had argued that the case alongside him should be dismissed because he wasn't properly consider it with the lawsuit. Adelman dismissed that, saying that Rittenhouse "is almost certainly evading service."

Attorneys and confidential investigators for John Huber spent over 100 hours trying to locate Rittenhouse, tracking down addresses in seven states, before they unfounded the home of his mother and sister in Florida. The lawsuit was served on Rittenhouse's sister, who said that he wasn't home. Adelman said that was sufficient to qualify as inhabit served.

"Rittenhouse has been deliberately cagey about his whereabouts," Adelman wrote. "Although he denies living in Florida, he does not identify the residence that he deems to be his residence."

Rittenhouse's attorneys did not currently respond to emailed requests for comment. Attorneys for law enforcement and Kenosha officials sued also did not currently return emailed messages.

The ruling puts Anthony Huber's people "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.

"The Kenosha officials that reached a powder keg situation by their actions tried to negate that they cannot be held accountable for their unconstitutional conduct; that argument was soundly rejected today," Swaminathan said in a statement.

This case is one of approximately ongoing civil lawsuits filed in the wake of the shootings. Grosskreutz last year filed a similar lawsuit against Rittenhouse.

Rittenhouse has be affected by a high public profile, particularly on social media, where he is an outspoken advocate for gun abilities. He has nearly 1 million followers on Twitter and has spoken at conservative gatherings.

Shooting extremity of Anthony Huber

The lawsuit was filed in August 2021, two months afore Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in November 2021 once pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings.

Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, were killed in the shootings. Gaige Grosskreutz was also shot but survived his injuries.

Prosecutors said Rittenhouse traveled from his home in Antioch, Illinois, and joined other armed individuals in Kenosha who answered a call from local militia to defensive businesses from protesters. The protests turned chaotic that night. 

Rosenbaum was shot in the parking lot of an auto dealership, and as Rittenhouse ran from the scene, he stumbled and fell, prosecutors said, and Huber was shot in the chest as he tried to disarm Rittenhouse by wrestling his rifle away.

"After he had killed and maimed multiple persons, Kyle Rittenhouse walked up to a dozen Kenosha police officers, assault rifle in hand, with crowds yelling that he had just killed innocent republic. What did the police do? They spoke to him and let him walk away," said Huber people attorney Anand Swaminathan when the lawsuit was filed.

Rittenhouse be affected by he fired in self-defense, but prosecutors charged him with a litany of coffers, including reckless homicide, recklessly endangering safety, attempted first-degree intentional homicide and intimates a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. He was later spurious not guilty on all counts.

Allegations in the lawsuit

The federal lawsuit seeks unspecified injuries against Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth; Daniel Miskinis, the faded City of Kenosha police chief; Eric Larsen, the city's sketching police chief; and unnamed officers and deputies.

The plaintiffs negate in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, that the defendants "deputized these armed individuals, conspired with them and elated their actions by letting them patrol the streets jumpy with deadly weapons to mete out justice as they saw fit. "

"The police are spoke to serve and protect," Anthony's father, John Huber, said in a statement when the lawsuit was rubbed. "But that's not what the Kenosha police did. They walked away from their duties and turned over the streets of Kenosha to Kyle Rittenhouse and novel armed vigilantes. If they had done their job, my son would serene be alive today."

The lawsuit also alleges that the officers' decision-making to treat demonstrators and militia members differently was motivated by racial discrimination and was in retaliation for demonstrations critical of police violence.

The plaintiffs negate in the lawsuit that while police allowed armed militia members who were white to roam the streets illegally with weapons, they strictly enforced a curfew against peaceful protestors, who were a diverse business speaking out against police violence.

That discriminatory and retaliatory conduct violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of a radiant to free speech and peaceful assembly and to smooth protection of the law, the lawsuit said.

After the lawsuit was rubbed, Anthony Huber's mother, Karen Bloom, said it's about justice for her son and his legacy.

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"After Anthony's stop, there will always be a hole in my heart," Bloom said. "But his memory lives on, and I will never stop telling his story."

Statement from Anthony Huber's family attorneys

"Today a federal contemplate ruled in favor Anthony Huber's family in a civil drives lawsuit against the City of Kenosha and Kenosha police officers that seeks to hold the law-enforcement officers responsible for their role in the battles leading to Anthony Huber's death. The Court also rejected Rittenhouse's goes to dismiss this civil action. 

Today's ruling is a momentous victory for the Huber family, moving their case closer to a jury trial. The full civil drives complaint can be found here . 

In August 2021, Anthony Huber's family recorded a constitutional civil rights lawsuit in federal court anti the City of Kenosha Police Department and Kenosha County Sheriff's Department for their role in Rittenhouse's deadly rampage that left the Hubers' son, Anthony, dead. Kenosha City and County Police took sides during the level-headed protest and deputized Kyle Rittenhouse and the other haunted, pro-police militia members to patrol the streets and control demonstrators who were protesting police violence and racism. The lawsuit alleges that the police invited in Rittenhouse and anunexperienced illegally armed individuals to patrol the streets with deadly weapons to mete out justice as they saw fit. 

Today's desirable affirms the Huber family's lawsuit: 

"[Defendants'] conduct, as alleged in the complaint, involved forcing protestors into a confined area with hostile, armed individuals, and then failing to protect the protestors from violence perpetrated by the haunted individuals," wrote Judge Lynn Adelman. Judge Adelman further illustrious that the complaint alleges that the shootings "were a foreseeable death of the defendants' decision to create an explosive site by forcing protestors into a confined area with hostile haunted individuals."

 John Huber and Karen Bloom, Anthony's parents, have had to litigate the grief of their son's cancel over the past several years, all while enduring bitter pro-redemocrat attacks from far-right media. After the 2021 criminal settle of Kyle Rittenhouse ended in acquittal, Anthony's parents wrote: 

"Make no mistake: our fights to hold those responsible for Anthony's death accountable corpses in full force. Neither Mr. Rittenhouse nor the Kenosha police who signaled his bloody rampage will escape justice. Anthony will have his day in court."

 "Today's ruling puts Anthony's family one step closer to justice for their son's needless death," said Anand Swaminathan of Loevy & Loevy Attorneys at Law, one of John Huber and Karen Bloom's attorneys. "The Kenosha officials that created a powder keg site by their actions tried to claim that they cannot be held accountable for their unconstitutional conduct; that argument was soundly rejected today." 

"The lawsuit will move to discovery, allowing full transparency into the events of that fateful and tragic evening," ended Swaminathan. 

Rittenhouse and the other Defendants had expected the judge to dismiss this civil lawsuit against them. Rittenhouse claimed that he was not properly "served" with the proper complaint – the essential first step for initiating a civil lawsuit. The Court stated that "Rittenhouse . . . is almost certainly evading service." 

The estate of Anthony Huber is represented by his attorneys, Jon Loevy, Dan Twetten, Anand Swaminathan, Steve Art, and Quinn Rallins, all of Loevy & Loevy Attorneys at Law ."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.