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Last week the National Rifle Association reposted a controversial propaganda video disguised as a recruitment ad that takes aim at the Black Lives Matter movement and uses lies in order to whip its supporters into a frenzy and encourage them to take up arms to protect themselves from a supposed enemy. Friday, a Black Lives Matter chapter in Los Angeles shot back with a video of its own.

In the video response shared with Mic, the group features families of victims of police brutality on-screen and accuses the NRA of issuing a public call to their constituents inciting violence against people who are constitutionally fighting for their lives.

We dont take that lightly. We know that we are not safe, but we are not scared, either, Funmilola Fagbamila, a member of Black Lives Matter L.A., says in the video.

The first minute of BLM L.A.s video appears to be a direct parody of the NRAs one-minute video in which spokeswoman Dana Loesch accuses an unnamed they of using their media to assassinate real news, using their schools to teach their children that their president is another Hitler, and using their movie stars and singers and comedy shows and award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again.

And then they use their ex-president, Loesch says, in a not-so-veiled reference to Barack Obama, to endorse the resistance, all to make them march. Make them protest. Make them scream racism and sexism and xenophobia and homophobia, to smash windows, burn cars, shut down interstates and airports, bully and terrorize the law-abidinguntil the only option left is for the police to do their jobs and stop the madness.

Yes, the NRA hinted that shooting protesters or otherwise hindering people from exercising their First Amendment rights is the job of the police.

In the BLM L.A. video, Fagbamila counters by saying, We will continue to produce media, teach students, march and protest to not only protect the First Amendment as fiercely as the NRA protects the Second, but to protect our lives from gun-toting racists.

Fagbamila concludes her comments with a demand that the NRA immediately remove their dangerous propaganda videos, narrated by conservative talk radio hosts Dana Loesch and Grant Stinchfield.

This is followed by images of the family members of Keith Bursey, who was killed by the Los Angeles police; Charleena Lyles, who was killed by Seattle police; and Kisha Michael, who was killed by Inglewood police. There is then a call to action, encouraging supporters to contact the NRA directly and demand that they take down the videos.

The NRA is disgusting for taking the fight for Black Lives and using it as a dog whistle to get their people worked up and up in arms. Salute to Black Lives Matter L.A. for directly speaking out against it.

Painting Black Lives Matter as a violent, racist movement is one of the laziest attacks ever, but it is also the most pervasive, because the people who support the NRA find that to be a much easier pill to swallow than admitting their own inherent and most times blatant racism against black people.

It cannot be said enough that Black Lives Matter is not an attack against anyone else; it is simply a reminder (and obviously a painful one for white people) that black humanity is still disregarded in this country.

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A police officer wounded in a shooting rampage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last year that left three officers dead sued Black Lives Matter movement leaders on Friday, accusing them of inciting violence that spurred the attack.

The lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in Louisiana named DeRay McKesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders as defendants and sought at least $75,000 in damages.

It came on the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest days in modern U.S. history for law enforcement. On July 7, 2016, a black man angered by what he saw as deadly racial bias in U.S. policing launched a downtown Dallas sniper attack, killing five officers deployed at a protest decrying police shootings of black men.

McKesson was not immediately available for comment and Black Lives Matter leaders have denied accusations that their movement promotes violence against police.

About 10 days after the Dallas shooting, a decorated ex-U.S. Marine sergeant opened fire on police in Baton Rouge, killing three officers.

Baton Rouge had been hit by waves of protests after two police officers earlier that month killed a black man, Alton Sterling, under questionable circumstances. The incident was caught on video and sparked national debate.

The officer wounded in Baton Rouge, who was not named in the lawsuit, was shot by "a person violently protesting against police, and which violence was caused or contributed to by the leaders of and by 'BLACK LIVES MATTER'," the filing said.

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Gavin Long, the black gunman who killed the Baton Rouge officers and was later shot dead, identified himself as a member of an African-American offshoot of the anti-government, mostly white Sovereign Citizen Movement, documents showed.

Last year, McKesson and two other activists sued the Baton Rouge police department and other officials over the arrests of nearly 200 demonstrators during mostly peaceful protests over police killings.

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A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 9, 2016. Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Reuters

A personal injury lawyer trying to raise money for her lawsuits against Black Lives Matter and its leaders on behalf of Baton Rouge police officers was rejected by a crowdfunding website on Sunday.

The YouCaring site is a free, online fundraising source for people around the country and in Baton Rouge, including residents whose lives were devastated by floods last year or families who have expensive medical needs. It also supports various versions of local and national Black Lives Matter campaigns.

But when lawyer Donna Grodner, who has filed two federal lawsuits on behalf of police against Black Lives Matter that target one of its leaders Deray Mckesson, created a page to raise $20,000 for expenses, YouCaring took it down.

In alignment with our mission, we removed this fundraiser because it was not within our community guidelines around promoting harmony, YouCaring chief marketing officer Maly Ly told the NewsHour Weekend in an email. We are not the right platform to air grievances, or engage in contentious disputes or controversial public opinion.

Then, Grodner created a GoFundMe page. GoFundMe did not immediately return a request for comment.

Grodner has filed two lawsuits that accuse Black Lives Matter and its leaders of causing the injuries of two police officers in separate incidents.

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The first lawsuit was filed on behalf of an unnamed officer who said he was hit by debris during a protest after local police, who are white, killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man, on July 5 last year.

Following Sterlings death, Black Lives Matter organized a Weekend of Rage campaign, in line with type of take-to-the-streets rallies the movement has organized since its inception around 2012, to rail against the killings of black people.

The lawsuit claims that Black Lives Matter and one of its leaders Deray Mckesson are responsible for the officers injuries, though Mckesson is not accused of throwing anything. It says the Black Lives Matter activists have incited violence and do not try to calm the crowds.

A judge in that case is still deciding whether Black Lives Matter can be charged as an entity.

Grodner filed a second lawsuit on Friday, but with four more leaders as defendants including Alicia Garza and Johnetta Netta Elzie, making a similar claim.

The officer she is representing, also unnamed, was shot several days after the Weekend of Rage, by a man from Kansas City who law enforcement said had never attended any of the protests, according to local reports.

A First Amendment lawyer told the NewsHour Weekend on Saturday that Grodners theory is bizarre and seems it may be an attempt to hunt for dirt within the movement rather than a legitimate legal claim. David Roland, the director of litigation at the Freedom Center of Missouri, also said it followed the same principle used in a Civil-War era law.

Its the same logic that gets applied to people of the Muslim faith. If theres an act of terrorism, people say, If you dont come out and disavow this personally, then you are responsible, he said.

Roland feared it was a shot across the bow and designed to discourage dissent.

Black Lives Matter and the people who are involved in it are engaged in civil disobedience because they perceive a fundamental wrong in our society that needs to be corrected, Roland said. The best method that they know to employ is to engage in civil disobedience, and thats part of a long American tradition.

Grodners GoFundMe page called the protesters militant, saying the money will help hold them responsible for the injuries they caused, whether in whole or in part through its [anti]-police agenda.

In response to questions about YouCarings decision and the GoFundMe page, Grodner told the NewsHour Weekend in an email that Both are for the same purpose.

But Ly said in her email that YouCaring was drawing a line.

We exist to empower people and communities to rally positive financial, emotional, and social support, she wrote. While different viewpoints are a part of life, you should make efforts to ensure that the content of your fundraiser does not promote discord.

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One year after law enforcement officers in Texas and Louisiana were ambushed by angry gunmen who said they were retaliating for high profile fatal police shootings nationwide, critics of Black Lives Matter are still trying to pin responsibility on the movement.

In a new lawsuit filed Friday, an unidentified Baton Rouge officer blamed DeRay Mckesson, Johnetta Netta Elzie and three other prominent Black Lives Matter leaders for inciting and encouraging violence at demonstrations across the country.

More specifically, it claims the movement and rhetoric of its leaders inspired a decorated ex-U. S. Marine sergeant to unleash a torrent of bullets upon Baton Rouge police on July 17, 2016, leaving three officers dead and another three injured including the plaintiff, identified only asOfficer John Doe Smith in the lawsuit.

The officer, a 42-year-old father of two who worked in law enforcement for 18 years, was left permanently disabledwhen bullets struck his abdomen, shoulder and head during the methodical ambush by 29-year-old Gavin Long at a convenience store.

Long, who was black, was killed by police in ashootout, had written in a suicide note that his actions werea necessary evil intended to create substantial change within Americas police force. He said he felt compelled to bring the same destruction that bad cops continue to inflict upon my people, upon bad cops as well as good cops in hopes that the good cops (which are the majority) will be able to stand together to enact justice and punishment against bad cops.

[Baton Rouge police assailant had searched names of officers involved in Alton Sterlings death]

The mans attack came 12 days after a different shooting in the same city, when a white Baton Rouge police officer shot and killedAlton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, outside a convenience store. A day later, another black man, Philando Castile, was fatally shot during a traffic stop by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minn.

Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the country, including a peaceful one on July 7 in downtown Dallas. But it turned deadly, too, when an Army veteran named Micah Johnson ambushed law enforcement officers who were overseeing the demonstration route. Five Dallas officers were killed and seven more were wounded.

Before he was killed in a standoff with police, Johnson told negotiators he was angry over the shootings that week in Louisiana and Minnesota and wanted to kill white police officers.

Ten days after Dallas, Long drove to Baton Rouge from Kansas City, Mo., and continued the bloodshed on a Sunday morning.

[One year after Dallas, NYPD ambush again sends a chill across the policing world]

The new Baton Rouge lawsuit claims that Longs ambush attack may not have happened if Black Lives Matter leaders had not incited violence among their followers, even though an exhaustive investigative report determined that Long had not attended any of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Baton Rouge after Sterlings death and that he believed protests were a waste of time.

Mckesson and his fellow activists were responsible for the unidentified officers injuries because they incited disdain, hatred and violence against police at protests, on social media and in news interviews, according to the lawsuit. It says Black Lives Matter seized upon the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling by a Baton Rouge police officer to further incite its followers to take action against police.

Local news outlets reported that the description of the officers injuries match those of East Baton Rouge sheriffs deputy Nick Tullier, who nearly died in the shooting and remains hospitalized at a rehabilitation facility in Houston.

The officer has endured more than 16 abdominal surgeries and suffered extensive brain damage that has impacted his communication abilities, according to the lawsuit. He is still under constant threat of infection in his remaining wounds.

While there is no way to know how far (the officer) will progress back to normal life, he is definitely permanently disabled, the lawsuit says.

The complaint asks for at least $75,000 in damages.

This is quite a world, Mckesson told the Associated Press Friday when the publication made him aware of the lawsuit. He later told CNN that he was confident the lawsuit has no merit.Elzie declined to comment to CNN, the publication reported.

This lawsuit is the second one filed against Mckesson by a Baton Rouge police officer; both were filed by attorney Donna Grodner. In the previous lawsuit, Grodner argued on behalf of another unnamed officer that Black Lives Matter and Mckesson were responsible for injuries the officer sustained during protests that took place in Baton Rouge after Sterlings death.

Mckessons attorney asked a federal judge to throw out that lawsuit, reported the Advocate, arguing that Black Lives Matter is a social movement, not an organization, and therefore cannot be sued. The judge has not yet decided whether to dismiss the case, according to the Advocate.

Mckesson and other protesters arrested during that July demonstration in Baton Rouge later sued the city and local law enforcement agencies and they later agreed to settled, reported the Advocate. Charges were never brought against 98 of the 190 people arrested at the protests, including Mckesson.

On Sunday, another lawsuit was filed against Baton Rouge and Louisiana law enforcement agencies on behalf of 13 protesters and two reporters arrested during the demonstrations, alleging excessive use of force and civil rights violations, reported BuzzFeed News.

David Roland, the director of litigation at the Freedom Center of Missouri, told PBS News Hour that he was concerned that civil lawsuits blaming Black Lives Matter and its leaders for the actions of individuals loosely affiliated if affiliated at all with the movement could threaten the first amendment.

Its easier to dissuade protests, to chill speech, using the threat of a civil suit at least in some ways, Roland told PBS. It cant result in someone going to jail, but it can result in them being bankrupt.

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'Permanently disabled' Baton Rouge officer sues Black Lives Matter for 2016 ambush shooting - Washington Post

An unnamed Louisiana officer has sued Black Lives Matter and several of the movements leaders Friday after last summers ambush of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge.

DeRay Mckesson, a member of the activist movement who has been involved in the Ferguson, Mo. and Baltimore, Md. protests, and four other Black Lives Matter leaders have been named as defendants in the suit. It was filed on behalf of one of the officers wounded in the July 17 attack by Gavin Long, a black military veteran, who killed three other officers in Baton Rouge before he was shot dead.

Gavin Long fatally shot three police officers on July 17, 2016 before being killed in a gun battle. (AP)

The suit does not name the officer, but its description of the plaintiff matches that of East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriffs Deputy Nicholas Tullier, who has injured during the ambush.

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Long shot Tullier in the head, stomach and shoulder, leaving him with brain damage. In December 2016, the 42-year-old father of two emerged from a vegetative state and regained some movement in his body.

The same attorneys who filed Fridays suit previously sued Black Lives Matter and Mckesson on behalf of a Baton Rouge police officer who was injured last year at a July 9 protest over a deadly police shooting.

This is quite a world, Mckesson told reporters on Friday when informed about the lawsuit.

Long, 29, from Kansas City, Mo., was armed with a semi-automatic rifle when he killed three officers and wounded three others outside a convenience store and car wash near Baton Rouge police headquarters.

Long had posted rambling internet videos calling for violence in response to police treatment of African-Americans, which he said constituted as oppression. He apparently posted a YouTube video from Dallas on July 10,three days after a sniper killed five officers and wounded nine others there.

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Long also left behind a note saying he believed he had to inflict harm upon bad cops as well as good cops in hopes that the good cops (which are the majority) will be able to stand together and enact justice and punishment against bad cops.

Longs attack came two weeks after the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man.

Mckesson was arrested in Baton Rouge during a demonstration protesting Sterlings death on July 9.

Fridays lawsuit claims Mckesson was in charge of a July 9 protest that turned into a riot. Mckesson did nothing to calm the crowd and, instead, he incited the violence on behalf of Black Lives Matter, the suit alleges.

The suit describes Long as an activist whose actions followed and mimicked those of the sniper who killed officers in Dallas days earlier. The suit also claims Black Lives Matter leaders incited others to harm police in retaliation for the death of black men killed by police and all but too late began to denounce the shootings of police after the Baton Rouge attack.

Mckesson said he has not spoken to his attorney, Billy Gibbens, about the lawsuit. Last month, Gibbens argued that Black Lives Matter cannot be sued because it is a movement not an organization. The federal judge assigned to the suit has not ruled on that case.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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