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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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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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July 7 (Reuters) - 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.

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BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 17: An East Baton Rouge Police officer patrols Airline Hwy after 3 police officers were killed early this morning on July 17, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to reports, one suspect has been killed while others are still being sought by police. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 17: East Baton Rouge Police officers patrol Airline Hwy after 3 police officers were killed early this morning on July 17, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to reports, one suspect has been killed while others are still being sought by police. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 17: East Baton Rouge Police officers patrol Airline Hwy after 3 police officers were killed early this morning on July 17, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to reports, one suspect has been killed while others are still being sought by police. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 17: Baton Rouge Police officers patrol Airline Hwy after 3 police officers were killed early this morning on July 17, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to reports, one suspect has been killed while others are still being sought by police. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 17: Baton Rouge Police officers patrol Airline Hwy after 3 police officers were killed early this morning on July 17, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to reports, one suspect has been killed while others are still being sought by police. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

BATON ROUGE, LA - JULY 17: Baton Rouge Police officers patrol Airline Hwy after 3 police officers were killed early this morning on July 17, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to reports, one suspect has been killed while others are still being sought by police. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

An American flag flies at half mast near the scene of a fatal shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Penney

A police helicopter flies near the scene of a fatal shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Penney

An officer from the Louisiana Wildlife Service blocks off a road near the scene of a fatal shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Penney

Law enforcement vehicles block access to Airline Highway near the scene of a fatal shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

Police officers block off Airline Highway near the scene of a fatal shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Penney

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A law enforcement helicopter is seen near the scene where police officers were shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

Lew enforcement officers block a road after a fatal shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 17, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

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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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CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - 2016/07/26: Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement and those standing in solidarity with the movement's demand for ending police brutality staged a 'Black Resistance March' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the second day of the Democratic Presidential Convention. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 05: Protesters display protest placards as they attend a 'Black Lives Matter' group rally during a nationwide day of action on August 05, 2016 in London, England. The demonstrations called on the UK to 'shutdown' a crisis of racism. (Photo by Michael Tubi/Corbis via Getty Images)

CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - 2016/07/26: Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement and those standing in solidarity with the movement's demand for ending police brutality staged a 'Black Resistance March' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the second day of the Democratic Presidential Convention. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - 2016/07/26: Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement and those standing in solidarity with the movement's demand for ending police brutality staged a 'Black Resistance March' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the second day of the Democratic Presidential Convention. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

LONDON, UK - JULY 9: A protestor holds a placard at Windrush Square ahead of the rally and march in solidarity following the shooting of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by poilice in New Orleans and Minnesota respectively. The protest march on 9 July 2016 began at at Windrush Square in Brixton, South London. To date about 509 people have been shot and killed by police in 2016 in America this year so far. (Photo by David Mbiyu/Corbis via Getty Images)

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 17 : Protestors hold banners and chant slogans during a Black Lives matter rally in Melbourne, Australia on July 17, 2016. Approximately 3500 protestors rallied in Melbourne to show 'solidarity' after racial violence in US. (Photo by Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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TORONTO, ON - APR. 4: Black Lives Matter signage in front of Toronto Police Headquarters. (Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 05: A protester displays a protest placard as they attend a 'Black Lives Matter' group rally during a nationwide day of action on August 05, 2016 in London, England. The demonstrations called on the UK to 'shutdown' a crisis of racism. (Photo by Michael Tubi/Corbis via Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - Chalk graffiti on the ground is seen at an encampment of activists associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, on August 12, 2016, outside of City Hall in Los Angeles, California. The activists, who have already spent 32 days camped outside City Hall to protest police killings of brown and black men and women, plan to remain in the camp until Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck, who activists call the leader of 'the most murderous police force in the country' is fired or resigns. / AFP / Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES - 2016/07/26: Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement and those standing in solidarity with the movement's demand for ending police brutality staged a 'Black Resistance March' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the second day of the Democratic Presidential Convention. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Two women hold a placard with the slogan 'Yes, all lives matter' as people gather in Brixton, south London to protest against police brutality in the US, on July 9, 2016, after two recent incidents where black men have been shot and killed by police officers. / AFP / Daniel Leal-Olivas (Photo credit should read DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images)

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - NOVEMBER 20: A sign demanding the release of video footage of the killing of Jamar Clark hangs on a fence at a candlelight vigil held for Clark outside the 4th police precinct November 20, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Activists are keeping up pressure for more information about the shooting death of Clark by a Minneapolis police officer (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2016/01/12: Sign listing fact about the killing of Ramarley Graham. The parents of slain NYC teen Ramarley Graham joined members of the NY city council and Black Lives Matter activists to demand the US attorney investigate their son's death at the hands of NYPD officers. (Photo by Andy Katz/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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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. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas and Bryn Stole in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Editing by Andrew Hay)

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Demonstrators protest the shooting death of Alton Sterling 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 filed a federal lawsuit on Friday, claiming that Black Lives Matter and its leaders are responsible for the wounding of a police officer by a lone shooter after protests in Baton Rouge one year ago.

The lawsuit names five front-runners of the movement as defendants, including Alicia Garza and Johnetta Netta Elzie, but fixates on social media posts and television interviews by Deray Mckesson as evidence that they support and cause violence. Its asking for $75,000 on behalf of an unnamed officer who was shot three times and permanently disabled during an attack that also killed three police officers on July 17.

Gavin Long, the shooter who was killed by police that day, was an ex-Marine from Kansas City, thought to be seeking revenge after two white officers shot and killed 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man. Louisiana State Police detectives recently stated that Long had not joined in any of the protests in Baton Rouge or elsewhere, according to local reports.

But Sterling was killed on July 5, and the bulk of the 28-page filing claims that protests often led by Mckesson that weekend and beforehand were what caused Long to ambush police more than a week later.

Citing what Black Lives Matter referred to as a Weekend of Rage, it details protesters throwing rocks and getting arrested, claiming that Mckesson was inciting lawless actions and did nothing to stop the criminal conduct.

DeRay McKesson was present during the protests and he did nothing to calm the crowd and, instead, he incited the violence on behalf of [Black Lives Matter], the filing states.

But the connection is unclear. While the suit lists several protests since the movement started around 2012 to rail against killings of black people, including at the hands of white police, it does not point to any time defendants explicitly encouraged a shooting.

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A First Amendment lawyer described the case as bizarre to the NewsHour, saying it looks more like a fishing expedition than a legitimate claim.

David Roland, the director of litigation at the Freedom Center of Missouri, also said that is extremely unsettling.

I think the lawsuit first and foremost was intended to be a shot across the bow to anyone who has been publicly critical of police, said Roland. Its saying, Unless you expressly disavow tactics that we dont like, were going to come after you, were going to destroy you in court.

Roland likened the motivation behind the suit to the Ironclad Oath, which during the Civil War would only allow certain employment rights to people who took an oath disowning the Confederacy.

If you did not explicitly disavow the actions of the Confederates, then you violated the oath and were ineligible to work, he said. Its actually the same principle being applied here.

This is at least the third lawsuit to follow the protests in Baton Rouge after Sterlings death.

Mckesson and other activist leaders have since settled one with Baton Rouge that claims the arrests that weekend were unreasonable and unconstitutionally vague, violating their civil rights.

And Donna Grodner, the lead lawyer in the suit filed Friday who said she was unauthorized to discuss the case, is also involved in another case against Black Lives Matter and Mckesson on behalf of an officer who was hit by debris during the protest.

Though that suit, filed in November, does not directly accuse Mckesson of throwing anything, it says he arrived to Baton Rouge with the intention to incite others to violence against police.

In March, Mckessons attorney, William Gibbens, asked the U.S. district court judge to dismiss the case for relying too heavily on speculative allegations. The request was denied. Local media reported that the judge said a key question is whether, under Louisiana law, Black Lives Matter is capable of suing and being sued, a decision that he has yet to make.

But apart from that legal question, Roland was more worried about damage to freedom of speech. While suggesting that the suit filed Friday would be thrown out because it failed to make a connection between the activists and the shooting of an officer, he also pointed out the burden of proof is lesser in civil cases than in criminal.

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

Mckesson was active on Twitter but had not mentioned anything about the suit as of Saturday afternoon.

Omar Etman contributed reporting.

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Black Lives Matter activist Shere Dore speaks at a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Houston. was taken in on a warrant while on her way to the courthouse.

Black Lives Matter activist Shere Dore speaks at a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Houston. was taken in on a warrant while on her way to the courthouse.

Bryan X shares his thoughts before protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Bryan X shares his thoughts before protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

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A mounted police holds onto his horse while protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

A mounted police officers watches as protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

A mounted police officers watches as protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Outside diners watch as protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Outside diners watch as protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Bryan X shares his thoughts before protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Bryan X shares his thoughts before protesters take to the streets in downtown Houston to share their displeasure with Donald Trump being the president elect on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

Black Lives Matter activist accused of punching horse arrested for speeding warrant on way to court

The prominent Black Lives Matter activist accused of punching a horse was arrested Thursday morning on her way to a court date.

Shere Dore and her partner were driving to the Harris County courthouse for an appearance in the earlier case when officers pulled the pair over and arrested Dore for warrants stemming from a two-year-old speeding charge.

Local activists were quick to cry foul.

"Law enforcement agencies have decided to set Shere up for coming out against them with her activism and various allyship," said Ashton Woods of Black Lives Matter Houston.

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"They were on their way to court - the officer was literally staked out waiting for them."

The 41-year-old was taken to the Fort Bend County jail and held pending payment of her outstanding fees, prompting the Harris County court to revoke her bond when she failed to appear.

"It is interesting that this outstanding warrant did not come up when she was arrested in November of 2016 and more interesting that it would come up the morning of her court date," said Brian Harrison, who has represented her in the Harris County case, along with attorney Jolanda Jones.

It was not immediately clear which law enforcement agency pulled Dore over Thursday.

"I don't know why they were stopped on the morning of her court date, a date which I know a number of people thought was her trial date," Harrison said.

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Woods agreed that the timing of the arrest was not coincidental.

"This is some clear foul play," he said. "I think that the law enforcement agencies are colluding with each other."

Local activists, supporters and friends rallied around the well-known advocate for the homeless, chipping in funds to secure Dore's release. But even once she pays the $1,083.10 owed in Fort Bend, she'll still be held until a Harris County judge can reinstate her bond, Harrison said.

The Harris County felony charge - interfering with a police service animal - stems from a spirited November march through downtown Houston.

During the nighttime protest two days after Trump's election, Dore was one of a handful of demonstrators arrested after the gathering spilled out into city streets.

As an officer on a police horse named Astro started to push Dore back onto the sidewalk, Dore allegedly hit the animal with a closed fist, a charge her lawyers have consistently denied.

"I want the world to know that our clients are absolutely innocent. They have a First Amendment right to protest," Jones said after a November court date.

"I think this is one of the first indications of what's going to happen with the new president."

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