US Supreme Court Rejects BLM Activist’s Appeal, Allows Louisiana Cop To Sue Over 2016 Protest
15th April 2024
The Court declined to hear an appeal by DeRay Mckesson, leaving a lower court decision in place which revived a lawsuit brought by the Baton Rouge police officer, John Ford Reuters reports. Ford has accused Mckesson of negligence after being struck by a rock during a protest over the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling.
In 2023, the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Mckesson’s defense that his rights to free speech and assembly under the First Amendment protect him against the negligence claim. Mckesson is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The decision could make it easier to sue protest organizers for the illegal conduct of an attendee, according to the report.
And you know we can’t have that.
Note the contrast with the way the Jan. 6 protesters were (and are) being treated.
(If it weren’t for double standards we wouldn’t have any standards at all….)