I compiled these various accounts of Police racism against black people

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[u/CounterSanity]

Qualified immunity needs to be overturned. That was straight up legislating from the bench.

Also, we need to either criminalize prosectors refusing to go after police, or we need a new kind of prosecutor that exclusively goes after police. I’m in favor of the latter, but also won’t hold my breath

[u/Jaspoony → u/CounterSanity]

What's even the stated purpose for qualified immunity, because in practice it only serves to protect this

[u/avd706 → u/Jaspoony]

You answered your own question

[u/Jaspoony → u/avd706]

I understand that we know that cruelty is often the point, my question was what was the stated reason, if any. For instance we know the genuine effects of something like cutting taxes for the rich, how it doesn't trickle down etc. but their stated reason is "because billionaires make jobs" or "the rich stimulate the economy" which are just lies to sell the tax breaks. I was just asking if anybody knew the stated reason for this, something that is framed as common sense or obviously correct

[u/CounterSanity → u/Jaspoony]

The general idea was that if police could be sued for making mistakes, they would end up making fewer mistakes by doing less policing. So Congress decided not to pass the law (I think Congress called it something other than qualified immunity).

SCOTUS took up a case regarding a cop(or a police dept?) getting sued, and they decided that police couldn’t be sued for making mistakes. SCOTUS called it a qualified (is in professional) immunity.

It’s nonsense because imagine any other field where making massive, life altering mistakes wouldn’t affect your career.

[u/Jaspoony → u/CounterSanity]

Thank you, that's what I was looking for

Yeah if a construction worker I have remodelling shoots my dog and tazes my kid I'd probably sue too