Qualified Immunity

[BoyNextDoor]

Time to reign in this judicial contrivance.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

https://www.unlawfulshield.com/


As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS
Jay Schweikert | June 1, 2020

I fear I may have become trapped in a time loop, in which every week I am doomed to write the same blog post about how the Supreme Court has delayed consideration of its qualified immunity docket. Back in April, I noted that the Court had scheduled thirteen different qualified immunity cases for its May 15th conference, including three cases explicitly calling for the Court to reconsider the doctrine entirely. Many of these petitions had already been fully briefed and ready for consideration since last October.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

‘Qualified immunity’ for police getting fresh look by Supreme Court after George Floyd death

With police misconduct in the spotlight, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will consider whether to revisit its 50-year-old doctrine of "qualified immunity" for law enforcement officers, which has shielded cops from civil lawsuits even in cases where a citizen's rights have been violated.

"This is the cornerstone of our culture of near-zero accountability for law enforcement," Jay Schweikert, a criminal justice policy analyst at the Cato Institute, said of the doctrine created by the court in the late 1960s.

While the Civil Rights Act of 1871 gives Americans the unambiguous ability to sue public officials over civil rights violations, the Supreme Court has subsequently limited liability to only those rights that have become "clearly established law."

 

[Saint_Ann]

If I were a cop, I'd be looking for a different job.

 

[RobDownSouth]

If I were a cop, I'd be looking for a different job.

You wouldn't willingly give up free doughnuts OR a right to smash black faces with legal sanction.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You wouldn't willingly give up free doughnuts OR a right to smash black faces with legal sanction.

Who's face that gets smashed has less to do about color than the power dynamic assigned to a person seeking to be a cop. Every day you face the possibility of being killed for a job that pays not that great for a society that cares less and less for the risks taken.

 

[FGB]

They might want to consider doing right for a change.

 

[Saint_Ann]

They might want to consider doing right for a change.

They?

 

[cinnefille]

If I were a cop, I'd be looking for a different job.

Who's face that gets smashed has less to do about color than the power dynamic assigned to a person seeking to be a cop.

Every day you face the possibility of being killed for a job that pays not that great for a society that cares less and less for the risks taken.

Exactly.
Your Police are now in an awful situation.

Risk of being killed by angry thoughtless mobs or being prosecuted by virtue-signalling politicians
for what?
a miserable paycheck and to pay for the sins of some strangers?

 

[cinnefille]

Every day you face the possibility of being killed for a job that pays not that great for a society that cares less and less for the risks taken.

I'm sorry, but watching all those twitter collections of "police brutality" during riots and the GB virtue signaling, makes me wonder if you're a nation full of morons.

How can they paint almost the entire Police force with the same brush?

And do they think that looking for "police brutality" in such extreme situations when Police are overwhelmed by rioters and reacting in fearf for their own lives,

makes them atone for their inaction in preventing George Floyd's and others' deaths?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Who's face that gets smashed has less to do about color than the power dynamic assigned to a person seeking to be a cop. Every day you face the possibility of being killed for a job that pays not that great for a society that cares less and less for the risks taken.

"Oh noes! I might git KILT today! Better go roust me some coloreds!"

 

[Saint_Ann]

"Oh noes! I might git KILT today! Better go roust me some coloreds!"

I can see you've been triggered by media driven generalizations, but that doesn't really surprise me.

 

[FGB]

They?

SCOTUS and the Law Enforcement and everyone in between.

 

[Saint_Ann]

SCOTUS and the Law Enforcement and everyone in between.

All cops hate black men and all black men have huge cocks.

 

[Mal_Huevo]

All the protesters are rioters and terrorists.

 

[cinnefille]

All right-leaning posters are racists or Russian bots.

 

[SissySalina]

Good, then the Speaker of the House and President will be in court a lot also.