Suranis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:59 pm
Kyle Rittenhouse is being sued by the estate of the man he killed...
You can read the lawsuit here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... ittenhouse
It appears to be a cut-and-paste job largely duplicating Huber family suit by the same lawyer, Kimberly Motley. You even run into a duplicated pair of successive paragraphs right at the beginning. As with that suit, the primary focus is on the many municipalities whose police departments took part, and their governing officials, whom it alleges conspired to privilege the armed civilians patrolling the streets, "deputizing" them, "conspiring with them", and allowing them to patrol the streets with assault weapons and "mete out justice as they saw fit", leading to the death of Rosenbaum.
So it is not simply an action to hold Rittenhouse personally accountable. He will have something like 20 co-defendants.
One detail I can't help but notice: a key claim is that the police favored the armed civilians over the protestors by allowing the armed civilians freedom of movement. But at a crucial point that evening, just before the shootings, Rittenhouse got separated from his escort Balch, and tried to return to his "base" just north of a line set up by the police (they were forcing protestors south of this line). And ... the police in armored vehicles did not allow him to cross. They treated him just like everyone else. Because of that, he wound up sort of stranded "behind enemy lines" as it were (without backup among the protestor group south of the line). And that was when he got a call about a fire on the other lot, grabbed a fire extinguisher, and went bopping obliviously south on Sheridan -- thereby crossing paths with Rosenbaum and giving Rosenbaum the opportunity to ambush him, setting in motion the fatal chain of events that ensued.
So, in fact, if the police had only privileged him as the suit alleges and allowed him freedom of movement get back to the safety of his companion group, there very likely would have been no loss of life that night.
ETA: Correction, Kimberly Motley is also handling Grosskreutz' suit, not Huber's father's.