In a crucial win for the First Amendment right to protest, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled in favor of DeRay Mckesson, a prominent civil rights activist and Black Lives Matter movement organizer. The court held that a protest leader cannot be held legally responsible for injuries inflicted by another person’s violent act at the protest, when it is undisputed that the leader didn’t intend for that violence to occur. Read more at www.aclu.org.
