Posted on 06/21/2021 7:47:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General Bill Barr and other members of the Trump administration cannot be sued over the forcible clearing of Black Lives Matter protesters from Washington DC’s Lafayette Square last year, a federal judge ruled Monday.
In a 51-page decision, US District Judge Dabney Friedrich tossed many of the claims in four overlapping lawsuits, which alleged that government officials used unnecessary force by ordering US Park Police to deploy rubber bullets, flash bang grenades and tear gas to disperse demonstrators on the evening of June 1, 2020.
Protesters were pushed from the park across from the White House shortly before Trump walked through the same area to deliver a brief speech while holding up a Bible in front of St. John’s Church, which had been vandalized the night before.
The Washington DC chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union, Black Lives Matter and other organizations brought the lawsuits.
In her decision, Friedrich rejected claims that Trump, Barr and then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper conspired to violate protesters’ civil rights before the park was cleared, writing that the plaintiffs did not show evidence of “sufficient ‘events, conversations, or documents indicating an agreement or meeting of the minds’ amongst the defendants to violate [plaintiffs’] rights based on [their] membership in a protected class’.”
The judge added that the possibility of violence, enforcing a citywide curfew and presidential security provided “obvious alternative explanation[s]” for the actions of Trump and other members of his administration.
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Dabney Friedrich is a Trump judge.
The ACLU is a joke. They don’t care about liberty.
The ACLU should be a strong supporter of the Civil Right to own and bear firearms based on the 2A.
They are NOT.
Now they don’t even work to support the 1A for all.
They are a Commie/Marxist woke joke.
Thank you for confirming that.
God bless Judge Friedrich.
Didn’t Traitor Roberts claim that there are no Trump Judges? /s
If they don't file the suits, they need to be sued for filing the first suits fraudulently.
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