Black Lives Matter sues Trump administration over use of force on protesters

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Black Lives Matter has sued the Trump administration over Monday’s siege outside the White House, where U.S. forces launched gas and rubber bullets to disperse peaceful protesters who were gathered in the memory of George Floyd. »NEW: Black Lives Matter protests planned for Lilburn, Duluth on Friday The American activist organization, whose existence was sparked after the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, claims its civil rights were violated when U.S. Park Police and the National Guard “fired flash-bang shells, tear gas, smoke canisters, pepper balls and rubber bullets into the crowd,” the lawsuit states, according to NBC...

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