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Justice Thomas dissents.
https://www.newsbreak.me/n/0XVLQP3z?pd=041XYzEG&lang=en_US&s=i0
The Black Lives Matter movement got a favorable ruling Monday from the Supreme Court.
The justices tossed out a federal appeals court decision that allowed a Black Lives Matter protest organizer to be sued by a police officer injured by an unknown assailant.
The 2016 incident in Baton Rouge, La., followed the shooting death of Alton Sterling by a white police officer, which triggered weeks of protests across the U.S.
The officer, identified as John Doe, was struck in the face by a rock. He sued DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter activist, on the theory that he knew or should have known
that violence would result.
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the decision, the Supreme Court's public information officer said, because she was busy preparing for oral arguments. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/supreme-court-black-lives-matter-organizer/index.html