“Police officers enjoy almost complete immunity from civil suits in federal court. They can shoot someone, taser someone, choke someone, or press their knee into someone’s neck until they can’t breathe. They can brutalize peaceful protesters. And yet, in large part because of the court-made rule of qualified immunity, officers rarely face liability. The calls for ending qualified immunity have not gone unheard …” (more)
[I Bennett Capers, John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky, Washington Post, 17 August]
First posted 2020-08-19 06:40:26
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