Black Lives Matter leaders sued over Baton Rouge police shooting

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Fri Jul 7, 2017 | 3:54pm EDT

Black Lives Matter leaders sued over Baton Rouge police shooting

A police officer wounded in a shooting rampage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year that left three officers dead sued Black Lives Matter movement leaders on Friday, accusing them of inciting violence that spurred the attack.

The lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in Louisiana named DeRay McKesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants and sought at least $75,000 in damages.

It came on the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest days in modern U.S. history for law enforcement. On July 7, 2016, a black man angered by what he saw as deadly racial bias in U.S. policing launched a downtown Dallas sniper attack, killing five officers deployed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men.

McKesson was not immediately available for comment and Black Lives Matter leaders have denied accusations that their movement promotes violence against police.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-louisiana-police-lawsuit-idUSKBN19S2TA

[angrychair]

1. Going nowhere

It's a pointless and racist lawsuit meant to discourage protest.

[mythology]

2. I wonder if he would feel the same if it was cops getting sued

If the lawsuits filed after cops killing innocent people came out of the cop pension fund, or overtime funds or other money that directly hit the cops, I suspect shooting innocent people would drop quickly.