🚨 MAJOR WIN for our First Amendment rights! 🚨
This week, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled in favor of DeRay Mckesson in the Doe vs Mckesson case, affirming that the law protects protest leaders and organizers from being held responsible for unintended violence. DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist and Black Lives Matter movement protest leader who in 2016 was held liable for a “rock-like object” that hit a police officer despite Mckesson not being directly tied to this violence at all. This form of “negligent protest” would have created strains on every person’s fundamental right to protest.
What does this mean now? According to the ACLU, “alleging “negligent protest” on the part of a supposed leader does not suffice to win a case.”
But our fight to protect free speech isn’t over. Greenpeace faces a $300 million dollar lawsuit from Big Oil that threatens our existence and could set a dangerous precedent around protest liability. The landmark...
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