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U.S. NEWS Saturday 8 July 2017
Officer wounded in deadly ambush sues Black Lives Matter

Houston rehabilitation hos- on July 10, three days after
pital since November. a sniper killed five officers
The same attorneys who and wounded nine others
filed Friday’s suit previously there. Long also left behind
sued Black Lives Matter a note saying he believed
and Mckesson on behalf of he had to inflict harm
a Baton Rouge police of- “upon bad cops as well as
ficer who was injured at a good cops in hopes that
protest over a deadly po- the good cops (which are
lice shooting last July. the majority) will be able
“This is quite a world,” to stand together and en-
Mckesson said Friday when act justice and punishment
a reporter informed him of against bad cops.”
the latest lawsuit. The attack came less than
Gavin Long, a 29-year-old two weeks after a white
former Marine from Kansas Baton Rouge police officer
City, Missouri, was armed shot and killed Alton Ster-
with a semi-automatic rifle ling, a 37-year-old black
when he killed three offi- man. Mckesson was one of
cers and wounded three nearly 200 people arrested
others outside a conve- in Louisiana’s capital at
nience store and car wash nightly protests after Ster-
near Baton Rouge police ling’s July 5 death.
In this March 26, 2016 photo, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson chats with campaign
volunteers in Baltimore. A federal lawsuit accuses Black Lives Matter and several movement headquarters. Friday’s lawsuit claims
leaders of inciting violence that led to a gunman’s deadly ambush of law enforcement officers in Long had posted rambling Mckesson was “in charge
Baton Rouge last summer. internet videos calling for of” a July 9 protest that
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) violence in response to po- “turned into a riot.” Mckes-
lice treatment of African- son “did nothing to calm
MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and four other Black Lives the plaintiff matches East Americans, which he said the crowd and, instead,
Associated Press Matter leaders are named Baton Rouge Parish Sher- constituted “oppression.” he incited the violence” on
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — as defendants in the suit iff’s Deputy Nicholas Tullier, He apparently posted a behalf of Black Lives Mat-
A federal lawsuit accuses filed Friday on behalf of one who was has been at a YouTube video from Dallas ter, the suit alleges.q
Black Lives Matter and sev- of the officers wounded
eral movement leaders of in the July 17 attack by a
inciting violence that led black military veteran, who
to a gunman’s deadly am- killed three other officers
bush of law enforcement before he was shot dead.
officers in Baton Rouge last The suit doesn’t name the
summer. DeRay Mckesson officer, but its description of

Court rules Constitution grants

right to record police in public

By MARYCLAIRE DALE posed police misconduct
Associated Press and exonerated officers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A from errant charges.”
federal appeals court in Such recordings, he said,
Philadelphia has joined provide different perspec-
five other circuits in finding tives than the images cap-
that citizens have a First tured by police dashboard
Amendment right to video- and body cameras.
tape police in public. Cellphone recordings in the
The U.S. 3rd Circuit on Fri- years since King’s violent
day joined what it called arrest was videotaped by
the “growing consensus” a bystander have repeat-
that the public can pho- edly captured shootings of
tograph or record police motorists, suspects and oth-
without retaliation. U.S. ers by police, fueling a na-
Judge Thomas L. Ambro tional conversation around
stressed that the U.S. Con- policing and minority com-
stitution grants citizens the munities, activists say.
right to “information about The case involves appeals
how our public servants from a Temple University
operate in public.” He ac- student who took a picture
knowledged the pressure on a public sidewalk of
faced by police but said Philadelphia police break-
bystander recordings since ing up a party and a legal
at least the Rodney King observer documenting the
beating by Los Angeles po- arrest of a fracking protest-
lice in 1991 have both “ex- er. q