Doubt it was a member of Black Live Matter.

Via KRTV:

A Phillips County Sheriff’s deputy is in the hospital after being stabbed by a man south of Malta on Wednesday morning.

The deputy then shot and killed the man.

The names of the men involved have not yet been released.

According to the Montana Department of Justice, the deputy was responding to a report about a suspicious man walking along U.S. Highway 191 near mile marker 122.

The DOJ said in a press release that when the man was confronted, he attacked and stabbed the deputy “multiple times.”

The deputy discharged his firearm, killing the suspect.

The deputy is currently in Great Falls for medical treatment and observation; the nature and severity of his wounds has not been released.

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