@benroyce the fact that #cops ain't forced to #ID themselves with their legal name, DOB, POB, legal Address, SSN and license plate is the issue!
- Just like "#QualifiedImmunity" is a #facist concept that must be abolished retroactively!
#Qualifiedimmunity
This week, in #Hernandez et. al. v. City of Los Angeles (docket no. 21-55994), the US Court of #Appeals for the Ninth Circuit chipped away at the misguided #legal principle of #qualifiedImmunity. The case involved a female officer, Toni McBride, who put six bullets in a suspect—the last 2 of which were fired while the suspect was "rolling on the ground".
In a 6-5 en banc decision, the court overturned a 3-judge panel's ruling that qualified immunity protected (now former) Officer McBride, based on a horrifying 2017 precedent from Orange County in which a Sheriff's Department officer essentially executed a prisoner, firing six shots into him after he'd already been hit several times and was lying on the ground. (In the earlier case, Zion v. County of Orange, the officer then stomped on the mortally wounded suspect's head.)
It's always good news when cops are held to account for their actions.
5 years after #GeorgeFloyd's #murder
#law #PoliceAbuse #PoliceReform #SystemicRacism #ExcessiveForce #PoliceViolence #QualifiedImmunity #Trump #DOJ #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E5801D2D-5163-436A-AA1B-7D9DE956DF60
Good question.
QI: Exempt or not? Babbitt settlement raises questions. Double standard? CBS News.
www.1party.org
On #ThisDayInHistory, in 1992, the #LARiots began. Five days, 63 killed, 2383 wounded, a billion in property damage, and it wasn't enough. 33 years later, #PoliceBrutality is worse, #QualifiedImmunity still exists, and both parties arm the #PoliceState.
#AbolishThePolice #BLM
Cops Nathan Winters and Christopher Wing fabricated DUI and marijuana charges and then claimed qualified immunity.
https://reason.com/2025/04/21/cops-denied-qualified-immunity-after-arresting-sober-teenager-for-dui/
#Iowa #qualifiedImmunity
Without exception, every single person I've ever met who both understood and supported #qualifiedimmunity was someone to whom it applies. #police, #teachers, everyone who knows what it is and supports it stands to benefit from it.
It's one of the reasons I support #schoolchoice; teachers in private school stand to be held accountable if they violate the civil rights of your children. Government teachers do not.
Another wrong-house raid. Another misapplied case of qualified immunity. At least nobody died. This time.
Cops aren't going to fix these problems until they're held personally accountable. #qualifiedimmunity #SCOTUS
Court Grants Immunity To DA Who Shared Nude Photos From A Searched Phone With Local Law Enforcement
#MAGA #Project2025 #ElectionsHaveConsequences #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #TrumpWars #TrumpEconomy #Trump #DOGE #QualifiedImmunity
AI writing police reports can allow officers to avoid responsibility for said reports
One concern of AI is the ability to abdicate (maybe even say, 'obfuscate') responsibility
Do something bad in report?
Solution for any unethical behavior?
"blame the AI machine" 🤖
Maybe some even see this as a benefit. More immunity.
w/Love to see all pitch emails / inner discussion
#policing #News #AI #artificialintelligence #Law #Qualifiedimmunity #ethics #activism #police
https://www.kqed.org/news/12007520/how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-reports-police-write
The attitude shown here is extremely common among officers. I have seen it myself. There is a sense of entitlement that comes with a badge and gun when it's linked to a systematic lack of accountability. We have, with #QualifiedImmunity, created a #PoliceState. #AbolishThePolice
The University of Louisville's administrators claimed qualified immunity after violating a faculty member's 1st Amendment rights. The court said they couldn't.
…#Trump has garnered support from many #police groups, in part by promising to strengthen #QualifiedImmunity to shield officers from civil #liability for their actions.
…He has detailed plans on his website to direct the #DOJ’s #CivilRights division to investigate “radical, Marxist” state prosecutors whom #Republicans accuse of *failing* to bring NONVIOLENT drug cases or other low-level charges that have disproportionately been prosecuted against #racial *minorities*.
Why Has #QualifiedImmunity Excused #PoliceOfficers’ #Misconduct for Decades?
#Fascist #Republican #DonaldTrump’s #vow to #protect #police from #civilliability, and the recent #premeditated #murder of #SonyaMassey by a #sheriffsdeputy, have brought new #attention to the #issue.
https://capitalbnews.org/qualified-immunity-police-officers-accountability/
#QualifiedImmunity for SWAT thugs strikes again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ-SGGtP0Bg
@GottaLaff The lack of clarity on the subject and object of this sentence made it exceptionally difficult for me to read the first few times without a broader context. Shouldn't Trump be asking why cops have #qualifiedImmunity?
Oh, *Trump* didn't ask about it, he was asked *about* it. Me: 😵💫🤔😂
With a former prosecutor & state attorney general now in the presidential race, I though taking a look at some of the most recent literature on the topic of police reform would be timely. Out this morning.
#police #Arizona #Texas #policereform #qualifiedimmunity #sociology
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