Nationwide Protests May Resound in Supreme Court First Amendment Case
The petition from a Black Lives Matter leader, DeRay Mckesson, takes on new importance amid the national protests that followed the death of George Floyd in the custody of police in Minneapolis.
June 09, 2020 at 01:15 PM
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The U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider a petition that pits police against a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in a dispute over the First Amendment rights of assembly, petition and speech.
But the case, Mckesson v. Doe, does not arise from the nationwide protests of recent weeks. Instead, it dates back to a 2016 protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, triggered by the death of Alton Sterling, an African American man shot and killed at close range by police responding to an anonymous 911 call. Among other themes, demonstrators chanted "Black Lives Matter" as they protested against the police conduct.
During the demonstration, an unidentified person threw a rock and injured an unnamed Baton Rouge police officer. The officer, referred to as "John Doe," filed a lawsuit against DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter movement organizer.
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