By: Antonio Ray Harvey, Lila Brown and Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media
Judge Dennis Saab of the California’s state bar court has exonerated attorney Marla Brown of disciplinary charges related to her May 2020 tweets calling for Black Lives Matter protesters to be shot during demonstrations that followed the murder of George Floyd.
Brown posted that Black Lives Matter should be designated as a domestic terrorist organization and that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough should have his house burnt down with him in it.
The California state bar filed the charges against Brown.
Although the judge said he didn’t condone Brown’s speech, he determined that she did not intend to incite “imminent lawless action,” and, therefore, should not be sanctioned.
“The evidence tends to show that Brown’s speech was an ill-advised and careless expression of her thoughts and emotions in response to her perceived experience,” Saab said after the trial.