Judge: Black Lives Matter is a movement that cant be sued

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Black Lives Matter is a social movement that can’t be sued over an officer’s injuries during a protest following a deadly police shooting in Baton Rouge last year.

A Baton Rouge police officer sued Black Lives Matter and DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist in the movement. But U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled Thursday that Black Lives Matter is not “an entity of any sort,” and like the tea party or civil rights movement, it can’t be sued.

The judge also concluded that Mckesson “solely engaged in protected speech” at the July 2016 demonstration where someone threw a rock at the officer. The protest followed the death of Alton Sterling, a black man fatally shot by a white police officer.

https://apnews.com/b1a60cdffa1e46bb9146443d0a915e91

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Oh, darn, cuz if you could sue a movement or philosophy for the damage it causes,

and if justice prevailed, we could easily bankrupt the RW with lawsuits. Just look at all the death and destruction they have caused.

[Initech]

2. Just the Sandy Hook victims alone could bankrupt them!

But could we go after ALEC, the Heritage Foundation, and the NRA maybe?

[Gothmog]

4. Suing an idea is hard

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. What's that saying...? Oh yeah, Nothing worth doing

is easy.

Of course, that's not really true. And of course, my comment was not to suggest we could actually sue an idea. Just making a point about whose ideas have caused the most harm.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Exactly

BLM is not even advocating violence against Police.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. Yep. BLM is not advocating violence against anyone.

“It’s clear that I did nothing wrong that day and that the police were the only violent people in the streets,” Mckesson, a Baltimore resident, said Thursday after learning of the judge’s ruling. “The movement began as a call to end violence and that call remains the same today.”

If RWers truly abhorred violence against US citizens, they'd be supporting BLM, not demonizing it.

[IronLionZion]

7. I would sue the concept of trickle down economics

and the myth of tax cuts for the rich will create jobs

and RW hate radio and conspiracy theorists

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. Yep. Trickle down is most definitely guilty as charged!

Same with LushSlimeball and his partners in slime.

[Gothmog]

3. This is a good ruling

[Nevernose]

10. Next we can sue "The Jews"

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/mississippi/mssdce/3:2017cv00785/97076

Link to tweet

[Iggo]

11. Aw, man! I was gonna sue white supremacy