by Madeleine Hubbard
Washington, D.C., unfairly enforced its “defacement” ordinances by dealing more harshly with pro-life protesters than with Black Lives Matter activists, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
“In the summer of 2020, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the District to proclaim ‘Black Lives Matter,'” the court wrote in its decision, obtained by Fox News. “Over several weeks, the protesters covered streets, sidewalks, and storefronts with paint and chalk. The markings were ubiquitous and in open violation of the District’s defacement ordinance, yet none of the protesters was arrested.”
However, during the same summer in August, D.C. police arrested two pro-life protesters “for chalking ‘Black Pre-Born Lives Matter’ on a public sidewalk,” the court also wrote.
The lawsuit was filed by the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America.
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Madeleine Hubbard joined Just the News as a fast file reporter after working as an editor at Breitbart News.
Frederick Douglass would probably be ashamed that the organization was using his name. When he was asked if he would join John Brown in his first attack, Douglass answered that while he could work for the slaves, Brown could die for them….and as we all know, he did. That mis-named organization needs to study up on both Douglass and Brown and not just be unworthy of his name.