Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Looks like qualified immunity for California cops is slipping away
Police in California are not immune from civil lawsuits for misconduct that happens while they investigate crimes, the state Supreme Court ruled this week, overruling a precedent made by lower courts that had helped protect law enforcement from litigation for decades.
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The whole doctrine of qualified immunity was created by the US Supreme Court, but overexpanded by the lower courts to the point were if the facts of the case are not IDENTICAL to a previous case that made it to the Supreme Court that clearly established rights, then the different facts made it not a “clearly established right” and the police were immune under qualified immunity. The lower courts to protect the municipalities, keep giving the cops a pass, making it extremely difficult to hold them or the City responsible.
ReplyDeleteGood thing
ReplyDeleteFuck Popo!
ReplyDeleteIt will remain the accepted case law, why would the progs give up their thug enforcers?
ReplyDeleteNext disband all public employee and police unions.
ReplyDelete"we investigated ourselves, and found we did nothing wrong."
ReplyDeleteto this day I cannot figure out how they say that with a straight face...
While an unintended side effect, these immunity laws protect not only the evil, sadistic puppy killing ops, but the .go who would pay the lawsuit damages.
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