Armed activist shot by Kyle Rittenhouse throughout Kenosha riot sues metropolis, county & police for ‘conspiring with vigilantes’

Gage Grosskreutz, one of many armed activists shot by Kyle Rittenhouse throughout final yr’s riots in Kenosha, is blaming the authorities and police within the Wisconsin metropolis for his accidents and is looking for financial compensation.

Within the lawsuit filed on Thursday within the US District Court docket in Milwaukee, Grosskreutz argued that Kenosha regulation enforcement officers intentionally “conspired” with “white nationalist militia individuals,” which led to Rittenhouse injuring him and killing two others.

Grosskreutz alleged that native authorities basically deputized Rittenhouse and different “vigilantes,” permitting them to patrol the streets and “shoot and kill harmless residents.”

Kenosha’s metropolis and county governments, in addition to police and sheriff’s division officers, had been named as defendants within the go well with. Mockingly, Grosskreutz didn’t sue who shot him. 

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The case stems from a number of days of rioting in August 2020, after Kenosha police shot and injured Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man with warrants pending for alleged sexual assault and different crimes. Blake was armed with a knife on the time, however main media retailers claimed he had been unarmed.

Rittenhouse, then 17, was amongst counter-protesters who had come to Kenosha in what they referred to as an try to guard individuals and forestall looting and arson. Rioters ultimately acquired into confrontations with Rittenhouse and different armed residents. At one level, 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum, who spent jail time for sexually assaulting 5 younger boys, was caught on video repeatedly daring somebody to “shoot me, ni**a.” Rosenbaum is later seen chasing Rittenhouse and making an attempt to take his rifle away, at which level the teenager shot and killed him.

Rittenhouse then ran towards a line of police down the road, however tripped and fell as a mob chased him and shouted for him to be overwhelmed. One of many pursuers, Anthony Huber, a 26-year-old man with a historical past of home violence, hit Rittenhouse with a skateboard and was fatally shot as he tried to take his gun.

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A crowd chases a suspected shooter down in Kenosha. He journeys and falls, then turns with the gun and fires a number of occasions. Photographs might be heard fired elsewhere as effectively, corroborating stories of a number of shooters tonight #Kenosha #KenoshaRiots pic.twitter.com/qqsYWmngFW

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 26, 2020

Then got here Grosskreutz, who backed away after seeing Huber shot however then rushed Rittenhouse once more. Video footage of the incident reveals him holding a pistol in his proper hand even after being shot within the bicep.

Kenosha authorities charged Rittenhouse with two counts of first-degree intentional murder for the deaths of Huber and Rosenbaum, in addition to tried homicide of Grosskreutz. He additionally faces two prices for reckless endangerment, reckless murder and the possession of a harmful weapon by a minor – as he was underage when he fired the rifle. His attorneys have argued he acted in self-defense. His trial is scheduled to start November 1.

Grosskreutz’s lawsuit argued that Rittenhouse was given preferential therapy by police on account of his race.

“If a black little one had shot three residents with an assault rifle and was seen strolling away from the scene of the taking pictures with the assault rifle in hand, whereas different residents yelled he was an energetic shooter, he would have been shot useless,” the lawsuit stated, including that police supported the armed vigilantes due to their “systemic, racially discriminatory insurance policies and practices.”

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Though the lawsuit condemned Rittenhouse as a “white nationalist,” there was no proof reported to counsel that is racist or was racially motivated. His household has even sued Joe Biden’s presidential marketing campaign for falsely tarring Rittenhouse as a white supremacist final yr.

Grosskreutz, whose rap sheet included a cost of “armed whereas intoxicated,” reportedly stated after the Kenosha incident that his solely remorse was not “emptying all the magazine” of his pistol into Rittenhouse. The activist is a member of The Individuals’s Revolution Milwaukee, a social justice group that has demanded police reforms, together with a slashing of regulation enforcement budgets and a requirement that each one officers earn school levels in such fields as “Africology” or “Latinx Research.”

Whereas some observers cheered on Grosskreutz’s lawsuit, saying they hope he will get a giant payoff, others argued that he alone is accountable for getting himself shot. 

“That is the man who pretended to be a medic, then pulled a gun and tried to homicide Kyle Rittenhouse,” one commenter stated on Twitter. “The one factor attributable to him is a jail cell.”

That is the man who pretended to be a medic, then pulled a gun and tried to homicide Kyle Rittenhouse. The one factor attributable to him is a jail cell. pic.twitter.com/pp3UYOZ5UW

— Kyle Thompson?? (@K_Thompson25) October 15, 2021

“Stumpy tried to enter a fast draw competitors and misplaced. Finish of story. He deserves nothing,” stated one other critic.

Nonetheless one other Twitter consumer agreed, saying “this man was drawing a gun on somebody who had already drawn a much bigger gun.” He added that Grosskreutz is fortunate to be alive and will “shut his crybaby mouth and fear about enhancing his decision-making abilities.”

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