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This is against the backdrop of a well-settled principle that officers can't use force, should not use force against people who are not physically resisting, and that precedent carries very little weight when courts won't let those cases go forward simply because the person in the case before them walked away instead of saying something or the officers kicked them instead of punched them or these very minor deviations.
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It's certainly possible that if qualified immunity went away, that would be an indication to law enforcement that legislatures were not protecting them, but I think that would be based on a myth as opposed to the way in which it actually functions on the ground.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If a lawyer knows ahead of time that the officer is not going to be identified, who has no resources, it makes no financial sense at all to litigate that case, if we've given up the charade that accountability is only through financial payments by those officers, then we need to think more seriously about what the consequences are and what our internal disciplinary systems look like in law enforcement agencies.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They say qualified immunity is intended to weed out the most insubstantial cases.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
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