SCOTUS missed a chance to protect peaceful protesters

SCOTUS misses a chance to protect peaceful protesters. Martin Luther King Jr. could have been liable for other people’s violence. 5th Circuit endorsed a legal theory endorsed by the 5th circuit, King could be liable for others' violence. King Jr.'s lawyers say he should not have been held liable for the violence of others.

Supreme Court declines to hear Mckesson v. Doe case. Case arose when a Baton Rouge police officer sued Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mcckesson in 2016. Case leaves in place a fifth circuit appeals court ruling that allows protest organizers to be held liable for violence caused by any single person who shows up to a mass protest.