Due to the action — or, more accurately, the inaction — of the U.S. Supreme Court, organizers of mass protests in Texas and two other states now could be on the hook financially for any criminal act committed by an attendee. On Monday, the high court opted not to hear the case of Mckesson v.
Organizers of mass protests in Texas and two other states can now be held finally liable for the behavior of attendees.
The case stems from an incident at a 2016 protest organized by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson. During that protest, which was held outside a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police station, an attendee threw a rock that injured an officer.organizers can be held liable for creating"unreasonably dangerous conditions, and where his creations of those conditions cause a plaintiff to sustain injuries.
"The goal of lawsuits like these is to prevent people from showing up at a protest out of the fear that they might be held responsible if anything happens," MckessonThe Supreme Court's revelation that it wouldn't hear the case came hours after pro-Palestine advocates blocked off two entrances to Valero's Northwest San Antonio headquarters Monday morning, leaving the refining company's employees unable to get to work.
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