“Astonishingly, the Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department, their supervising officials and police officers, and law enforcement officers from surrounding communities did not treat Defendant 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,” the lawsuit goes on. “Instead, the law enforcement 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.”
After Rosenbaum was shot and killed by Rittenhouse, Huber and Grosskreutz approached the teenage shooter – attempting to disarm him. Huber, of course, died, while Grosskreutz survived a shot to the arm, the lawsuit notes, using the word “hero” to refer to each.
After the first shots were fired, the federal lawsuit notes, law enforcement “did not limit [Rittenhouse’s] movement in any way” or “stop him from shooting individuals after he started.”
“They did not arrest him, detain him, or question him even after he had killed two people,” the filing continues. “Among other things, the Law Enforcement Defendants directed their curfew order only at people protesting the Law Enforcement Defendants’ own police violence, and not at Defendant Rittenhouse and others, who were supportive of law enforcement.”
Rittenhouse approached police in Wisconsin with his arms up and was allowed to pass freely back to Illinois where he turned himself into law enforcement later that same night. He was held in a juvenile lockup before being extradited to the Badger State on Oct. 30, 2020.