• March 28, 2024

Police Officer Wounded in Last Year’s Shooting in Baton Rouge Sues BLM

 Police Officer Wounded in Last Year’s Shooting in Baton Rouge Sues BLM

July 7th of 2016 saw a sniper open fire during a BLM (Black Lives Matter) rally in Dallas killed 5 police officers.  Just about 10 days later, a decorated veteran opened fire in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing three officers.  A couple more were wounded.  One of the wounded officers, who was not named had his lawyer file a lawsuit against DeRay McKesson and four other BLM leaders, claiming that they incited people to riot and inspired the man who killed the three officers.

The suit is asking for $75,000 in damages.  Coincidentally or perhaps on purpose, the lawsuit was file on the one year anniversary of the Dallas shootings.  Reuters attempted to get a statement from DeRay McKesson were unsuccessful as of press time.

 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.

About 10 days after the Dallas shooting, a decorated ex-U.S. Marine sergeant opened fire on police in Baton Rouge, killing three officers.

Baton Rouge had been hit by waves of protests after two police officers earlier that month killed a black man, Alton Sterling, under questionable circumstances. The incident was caught on video and sparked national debate.

The officer wounded in Baton Rouge, who was not named in the lawsuit, was shot by “a person violently protesting against police, and which violence was caused or contributed to by the leaders of and by ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’,” the filing said.

Gavin Long, the black gunman who killed the Baton Rouge officers and was later shot dead, identified himself as a member of an African-American offshoot of the anti-government, mostly white Sovereign Citizen Movement, documents showed.

Last year, McKesson and two other activists sued the Baton Rouge police department and other officials over the arrests of nearly 200 demonstrators during mostly peaceful protests over police killings.

H/T Reuters

 

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