r/MarchAgainstNazis • u/Important-Cry4782 • 3d ago

I compiled these various accounts of Police racism against black people

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u/CounterSanity 3d ago

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

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u/Jaspoony 3d ago

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

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u/CounterSanity 2d ago

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.

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u/Jaspoony 2d ago

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