Lawsuit Seeks to Hold Accountable Attorney General Barr, U.S. Park Police, and Other Law Enforcement Officers for Violent Attack in Lafayette Square on Racial Justice Demonstrators
(Washington, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and co-counsel filed an opposition motion to dismiss last night in Black Lives Matter D.C. v. Trump, after several defendants filed motions to dismiss the case. The case seeks to hold Attorney General William Barr and other law enforcement officers personally accountable for violating the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of peaceful protesters, and claims they participated in an unlawful conspiracy to deprive protesters of their civil rights. The following is a statement from David Brody, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law:
“The perpetrators of this state-sanctioned violence must be held accountable for their unconstitutional assault on nonviolent racial justice demonstrators. Our own government, in front of the White House, deliberately engaged in police brutality against Black Americans, at a protest of police brutality against Black Americans. The civil rights community will do everything we can to ensure justice for those who were standing up to intolerance.”
Leave a Reply