Supreme Court Rules Protest Organizer Not Personally Responsible for Injury to Cop

Supreme Court Rules Protest Organizer Not Personally Responsible for Injury to Cop
Deray Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter leader, in St. Louis on Aug. 7, 2015. Michael B. Thomas/AFP via Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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The Supreme Court sided with a protest organizer whom a policeman tried to hold personally responsible for an injury suffered at a 2016 protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson, an advocate of political violence, had led the protest illegally onto a highway, and the police officer was injured by a thrown rock or piece of concrete that hit his head. The assailant is unknown.