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Nearly eight years after it was filed, the vexatious lawsuit against protester DeRay Mckesson has been dismissed with prejudice. Louisiana Federal Court Affirms the Right To Peacefully Protest ...
DeRay Mckesson (born July 9, 1985) is an American civil rights activist, podcaster, and former school administrator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An early supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement, he has been active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri , and Baltimore, Maryland and on social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram. [ 2 ]
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Black Lives Matters organizer DeRay Mckesson, letting stand a lower court’s decision that some critics fear could wind up limiting the ...
Mckesson v. Doe, 592 U.S. 1 (2020), [1] was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that temporarily halted a lawsuit by a police officer against an activist associated with the Black Lives Matter movement and instructed the lower federal court (the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) to seek clarification of state law from the Louisiana Supreme Court. [2]
Mckesson's case had made it to the Supreme Court once before. The justices in 2020 ordered additional review by lower courts to determine whether Louisiana state law allowed for Ford's claim.
Campaign Zero is an American [1] police reform campaign launched on August 21, 2015. [2] The plan consists of ten proposals, all of which are aimed at reducing police violence. [ 3 ] The campaign's planning team includes Brittany Packnett , Samuel Sinyangwe , DeRay Mckesson , and Johnetta Elzie .
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson in his ongoing effort to avoid a lawsuit filed by a police officer.
Mourning the recent death of her own mother, Elzie drove to the site of Brown's death and began tweeting about the scene she encountered. [1] She became involved in protests [4] and in organizing volunteers and donations, as well as in continuing to document events; [5] in his book They Can't Kill Us All, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery ...