The Supreme Court Has Ruled to Let Louisiana Keep Hunting DeRay McKesson

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The Supreme Court Has Ruled to Let Louisiana Keep Hunting DeRay McKesson
The court has decided to let the BLM activist be held liable for organizing a protest in 2016, endangering the right to dissent in three Southern states.

ELIE MYSTAL


(The Nation) As Donald Trump appears in court this week for yet another trial—this time over his alleged hush money payments to actress Stormy Daniels and his attempts to cover the trail—it is common for white-wing sycophants to say Trump is being “persecuted.” He’s not, of course. Trump is being prosecuted for his various alleged crimes and misdeeds. If he’d like to be prosecuted less, my suggestion would be to stop committing so many crimes or things that look like crimes.

If you want to see somebody who is being persecuted, I suggest you look no further than DeRay McKesson. McKesson is an activist dedicated to ending police brutality. He’s been involved in the Black Lives Matter movement for nearly a decade, and for those efforts, he’s been relentlessly harassed by whites in the state of Louisiana and on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Court. Now, the Supreme Court has given the harassment its blessing.

In 2016, McKesson helped to organize a Black Lives Matter protest near the police headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after the cops there murdered Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man whom they shot six times, despite having pinned him to the ground and utterly immobilized him. During that protest, somebody threw a rock. That rock struck a police officer, severely injuring him.

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That’s the situation McKesson is facing now. After a lot of procedural back-and-forth between the Louisiana state court, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit eventually rejected many of John Doe’s claims against McKesson (like the completely unsupported claim that McKesson colluded with the rock-thrower who, again, nobody freaking knows). But the court left one claim intact: that McKesson was negligent in organizing a protest near a police station and thus should have been aware that violence was likely. McKesson appealed that ruling too, but on Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. ................(more)

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/supreme-court-deray-mckesson-blm-protest/

[Karadeniz]

1. Lord.....

[Freethinker65]

2. So Trump was negligent in planning and coordinating the stop the steal rally by the US Capitol and encouraging...

Encouraging the March on the nearby Capitol and destruction of property and violence. And so is Ginny Thomas and...

[Silent Type]

3. Protest organizers should not automatically be excluded from liability. That applies to trump, white wing

militias, the Klan, Oafkeepers, etc. Not saying organizers are automatically guilty/liable, just that the extent of liability— if any — should be investigated/adjudicated.