Judge Tosses Out Lawsuit Against Trump, Barr After Truth About Lafayette Protesters Exposed

Thanks to today’s constant inundation of misleading headlines and false narratives, the truth doesn’t often see daylight. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the media’s coverage of Lafayette Square. Now that the…

IJR SyndicatedJun 22, 20213 min read

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released by Interior Department Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt on June 9, which posited that officers had decided to clear the square in preparation for new security fencing being installed — before they even knew about Trump’s photo op. Moreover, the so-called “protests” were far from “peaceful.”

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It was then that many of those so-called “protesters” — who were demonstrating on behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement — filed lawsuits against the federal government over the force used to drive them out of Lafayette Square.

Those lawsuits were levied against various former officials, such as Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Attorney General William Barr and even then-President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich dismissed the lawsuits in her ruling, arguing that “the plaintiffs’ claims of impending future harm are too speculative to confer standing to seek an injunction.”

“Such harm would require that plaintiffs again demonstrate in Lafayette Square; that agencies headed by the official-capacity defendants again respond to the demonstration; that federal officers again use that law enforcement response as cover to deliberately target non-violent peaceful demonstrators; and that one or more of the plaintiffs again be targeted,” Friedrich continued.

“This hypothetical chain of events is simply too speculative to confer standing for injunctive relief.”

In response to the suits’ claim that “the officers attacked and improperly dispersed the protesters — they did not restrain them or attempt to seize them in place,” Friedrich noted that “quite the opposite was true.”

“The officers attempted to cause the protestors and fleeing crowd to leave their location, rather than cause them to remain there,” the judge wrote.

Yet again, another false, anti-Trump narrative promulgated by the establishment Media has crumbled to dust.

It’s a shame that the truth couldn’t have been revealed prior to the 2020 election.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.