On Thursday, September 28, 2017 U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson, an Obama appointee, dismissed a Louisiana police officer’s lawsuit after ruling that Black Lives Matter is not an incorporated, licensed entity and thus can not be sued. In essence, Judge Jackson said “a social movement” is an intangible which cannot litigated against. The suit also named DeRay Mckesson, a prominent Baltimore-based BLM activist, as a part-and-parcel figurehead spearheading BLM protests and inciting violence.
Filing as “Officer John Doe” due to sensitivities relating to his active-duty police role and fear for his life, the litigant claimed he was hit in the face with a rock during a July 2016 BLM-hosted anti-police demonstration. Per Officer John Doe’s filing, no specific suspect was attributable to the rock-throwing.
The catalyst for Officer John Doe’s suit stemmed from the July 5, 2016 police-involved shooting death of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA. Thereafter, a street protest involving Black Lives Matter cohorts included DeRay Mckesson and several hundred others.
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While many maintain BLM is a domestic-terrorism organization, and should be listed as such and outlawed by the federal government, Judge Jackson’s ruling is a breach in that wall of contention. The basis for Judge Jackson’s ruling centers on tangibility, specifically that BLM is not a revenue-holding company or corporation from which a litigant can seek recompense for a legal tort.
“It’s organized. They have meetings. They solicit money. They have national chapters. This shows a level of national organization”
Generally, BLM considers itself a loosely-outfitted social justice “movement” without a hierarchy or organizational flow chart to specify the who’s who in the constructs of its existence.
Judge Jackson’s 24-page ruling declares, “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.” That was the punctuation which torpedoed Officer John Doe and others who may entertain civil suits against BLM.
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Officer John Doe’s attorney, Donna Grodner, argued, “It’s organized. They have meetings. They solicit money. They have national chapters. This shows a level of national organization,” according to the The Baltimore Sun.
Black Lives Matter is organized in that it posts solicitations to organize for demonstrations and racial-justice marches around the nation. Black Lives Matter has plenty of chapters across social media. Logically, meetings are par for the course to carrying-out their mission. If Ms. Grodner and many others are correct, Black Lives Matter is well-funded by the checkbook of George Soros.
Judge Brian Jackson was formally nominated to his federal judgeship by former president Barack Obama on October 29, 2009. Unanimously, “the Senate confirmed Jackson on June 15, 2010 in a 96-0 vote.”
Conversely, the City of Baton Rouge and the Baton Rouge Police Department are legal entities and that is why BLM activists like DeRay Mckesson have filed suit against both for “violating constitutional rights.” Mckesson in particular is litigating against Baton Rouge cops arresting him for “obstructing traffic” during a street protest for which the police arrested him for non-compliance with demands to vacate the public thoroughfare. Mckesson purports excessive force was used during the arrest.
