A federal judge dismissed lawsuits by Black Lives Matter and the Washington, D.C., chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union claiming that the Trump administration authorized an attack on demonstrators at Lafayette Square in June 2020.
Both groups alleged that the administration ordered law-enforcement officers to clear the square in order to arrange for a photo-op by then-president Trump in front of St. John’s Church.
U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich dismissed the allegations, writing in her opinion that the plaintiffs had not produced sufficient proof. Friedrich also wrote that then-attorney general William Barr and then-acting Park Police chief Gregory T. Monahan are immune from civil suits regarding their actions during the incident.
“These allegations, taken as true, do not show sufficient 'events, conversations, or documents indicating an agreement or meeting of the minds' amongst the defendants to violate [plaintiffs'] rights based on [their] membership in a protected class,'” Friedrich wrote.
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