BATON ROUGE, La. — Black Lives Matter is a social movement, like the
tea party or the civil rights movement, and therefore can't be sued, a
federal judge ruled Thursday.
A police officer anonymously sued Black Lives
Matter and DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist in the movement, after
being injured by a rock thrown during a protest over a deadly police
shooting in Baton Rouge last year.
But U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson
dismissed the officer's suit and ruled that Black Lives Matter is not an
entity capable of being sued.
"Although many entities have utilized the
phrase 'black lives matter' in their titles or business designations,
'Black Lives Matter' itself is not an entity of any sort," Jackson wrote
in his 24-page ruling.
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Source: NBC News
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