Crime US Supreme Court Strengthens Qualified Immunity for Police

[Deleted member 555403]

The slow creep to an authoritarian police state continues today ..

The Supreme Court on Monday issued two opinions awarding qualified immunity to police officers accused of brutality, overturning lower court decisions that came to the opposite conclusion. The Court has thus prohibited the alleged victims from seeking accountability in civil court.

The doctrine of qualified immunity shields government actors from civil suits if the ways in which they are said to have misbehaved, and the exact circumstances surrounding the events in question, have not yet been spelled out as unconstitutional in a prior court ruling.

The Supreme Court Deals a Major Blow to Qualified Immunity Reform – Reason.com

reason.com is a libertarian thinktank for the uninitiated

 

[wbubbles]

I hate qualified immunity. Fuck this

 

[chardog]

thought this would be about covid......

 

[Source]

I hate qualified immunity. Fuck this

You should see the protections federal agents are offered.




The DHS Agent Who Tried To Kill Kevin Byrd Can't Be Sued—Because He Works for the Federal Government

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agent Ray Lamb was not acting in his professional capacity when he approached Kevin Byrd in the parking lot of a Texas bar and allegedly threatened to "put a bullet through [his] fucking skull," nor was Lamb on duty when he took his gun and attempted to smash the window of Byrd's car. He was acting as a private citizen when he made those threats, which also included pulling the trigger. Luckily for Byrd, the gun jammed.

But Lamb has an advantage most other would-be murderers don't: That gun was given to him by the government in his capacity as a federal law enforcement officer. Now, Lamb's badge is insulating him from responsibility for his actions, as current legal doctrine essentially makes it impossible to hold federal officers accountable in civil court—even for actions taken in their personal lives.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/reason...ity-police-dhs-agent-ray-lamb-kevin-byrd/?amp

 

[Whippy McGee]

I'm not a fan after watching a dumbass cop assassinate a poor slob in a hotel hallway. They innocent dude never had a chance as the cop played a ridiculous game of Simon Says that he couldn't keep up with and then was just shot dead on the spot.

There is a point where a cop is Criminally Negligent and that should open him/her up to civil action.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

From where in the Constitution does SCOTUS derive the authority to judge the matter?

 

[HARRISON_3]

I'm not a fan after watching a dumbass cop assassinate a poor slob in a hotel hallway. They innocent dude never had a chance as the cop played a ridiculous game of Simon Says that he couldn't keep up with and then was just shot dead on the spot.

There is a point where a cop is Criminally Negligent and that should open him/her up to civil action.

I remember that.

That was messed up

 

[Natural Order]

Sickening stuff.

 

[Whippy McGee]

This should go right next to Citizen's United as another SCOTUS fuck up.

 

[Whippy McGee]

I remember that.

That was messed up

100%

That cop walked. He never spent a day in prison. I hope the victim's family was able to sue the shit out of the city and the ex-cop.

 

[Amerikuracana]

Giving them these extra rights is the way they have them enforce crap they really don’t agree with. Give them a piece of the good ol “ruling class” power, and when looking at the diminishing rights of the nongovernmental class, make them know it’s better. It’s gross. Law enforcement is getting gross.

 

[Source]

From where in the Constitution does SCOTUS derive the authority to judge the matter?

Is this a serious question or are you not an american?

 

[RogerB08]

100%

That cop walked. He never spent a day in prison. I hope the victim's family was able to sue the shit out of the city and the ex-cop.

Didn't the cop have a custom AR-15 that he shot him with that had "your dead motherfucker" or something engraved in the side of it?

 

[Source]

Didn't the cop have a custom AR-15 that he shot him with that had "your dead motherfucker" or something engraved in the side of it?

It said “you’re fucked” and Molon labe (which means come and take them). They were ruled inadmissible at Philip Brailsford‘s criminal trial.

 

[Source]

I'm not a fan after watching a dumbass cop assassinate a poor slob in a hotel hallway. They innocent dude never had a chance as the cop played a ridiculous game of Simon Says that he couldn't keep up with and then was just shot dead on the spot.

There is a point where a cop is Criminally Negligent and that should open him/her up to civil action.[/He was charged and was sued civilly so I don’t Medi

Officer Philip Brailsford was charged and the civil suits against him are proceeding so he wasn’t provided the protections of qualified immunity.

 

[Bargey]

This is dumb af. They can’t rule on QI because there aren’t good enough precedents?? That’s why they’re the SC - they make precedents. Weak

 

[Strychnine]

I'm not a fan after watching a dumbass cop assassinate a poor slob in a hotel hallway. They innocent dude never had a chance as the cop played a ridiculous game of Simon Says that he couldn't keep up with and then was just shot dead on the spot.

There is a point where a cop is Criminally Negligent and that should open him/her up to civil action.

This stuff will get a whole lot worse...

 

[RogerB08]

So does this mean the few cops who've been convicted have grounds for appeal or does it only apply to civil suits?

 

[skysolo]

Gotta protect the "few bad apples".

 

[reveler]

why sue a cop when you can sue their employer, which can actually pay?