Supreme Court rejects appeal from Black Lives Matter leader held liable for violent attack on police officer
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Black Lives Matter organizer who was held liable for a protester’s attack on a police officer at a protest he organized.
Doe claimed that an unidentified third party threw a "rock-like" object during the protest and hit him, knocking his teeth out and leaving him with a brain injury. The officer sued Mckesson on the theory that he "should have known" that the protest "would become violent as other similar riots had become violent." Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"The pattern was set: out-of-state protesters representing BLM fly into a town, gather, block a highway, engage and entice police, loot, damage property, injure bystanders, injure police. By July 9, 2016, when McKesson organized the Baton Rouge protest/riot—he had no reason to expect a different outcome—police will be injured," lawyers for the officer wrote in their brief.