Judge tosses deputy's lawsuit against Black Lives Matter
Source: Associated Press
Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Updated 3:52 pm, Friday, October 27, 2017
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit that accused Black Lives Matter and several movement leaders of inciting violence that led to a gunman's deadly ambush of law enforcement officers in Louisiana last year.
U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson's ruling Friday said lawyers for a Baton Rouge sheriff's deputy wounded in the attack "utterly failed to state a plausible claim" and instead launched a "rambling" and "confused attack" against Black Lives Matter, movement leader DeRay Mckesson and others.
Jackson previously ruled Black Lives Matter is a social movement and therefore can't be sued. Last month, he threw out a separate lawsuit in which a Baton Rouge police officer blamed Black Lives Matter and Mckesson for injuries he sustained during a protest over a black man's shooting death during a struggle with police.
The officer's lawyers also attempted to add "#BlackLivesMatter" as a defendant, but Jackson ruled a hashtag can't be sued either.
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