Policing in America: Qualified immunity

40 thoughts on “Policing in America: Qualified immunity”

1. There isn't a good argument FOR qualified immunity. The judicial branch is supposed to enforce the laws that the legislative branch comes up with, not make laws on it's own or interpret laws. The judicial branches job is to apply laws as written, not decide intent without talking to the creators.

2. Qualified immunity just allows animals with badges to attack 70-year-old men and knock them to the ground and tear up their shoulders put them in the hospital and then charge them with made up crimes. Nothing but liars and criminals.

3. When I was a young man there was no such thing as qualified immunity and the police back then were far better than they are today. The police today lie cheat and steal and get away with it.

4. Qualified immunity and police unions are a cancer to justice.

5. qualified immunity created corrupt police, it needs to be removed.

6. End Qualified Immunity now

7. This is exactly why they need to be sued they do what they want because they won’t get charged… Police use this as an excuse… The people will not be in danger… The people are in more danger with police qualify immunity…

8. Police needs to lose qualify immunity and make police accountable and make them pay when assaulting the people…

9. "second guessing" you do you're job RIGHT & by the book then you should not have a problems,

   (qualified immunity was dreamed up by the courts NOT the government, courts don't make LAWs)

10. OK. I talked to a hayseed cop and did some research on "qualified Immunity" and found out that police officers could use it as a defense in intentional criminal activity by an officer. NYC didn't have that, What NYPD has is "Indemnification", meaning that if you follow a policy, rule, or regulation, in good faith (or by mistake), and the, rule, regulation as most major departments don't pass Judicial muster, the officer is not financially liable for any lawsuit. Meaning that. What I have found out is that "qualified Immunity has been used, to justify on and off duty cops to justify, Rape, assault, and robbery. Any victim of those offenses would be paid out on any lawsuit in an indemnification lawsuit, or be dismissed (these are State interpretations, not Federal). But maggot cops use Qualified Immunity as a defense for criminality. I can't believe any state, except fly over states, allows that. It's mainly for prosecutors, that suppress exculpatory, evidence, who don't provide full discovery and get caught, after getting a death sentence or life for the defendant because I guess lawyers are supposed to lie. Those are the people that should lose All Qualified Immunity. When I was resigning from NYC, to go to a Suburban department one of my bosses told me that the highly paid department that required a college degree I was going to, that made me the offer, "You know they don't have, indemnification out there, they have "qualified indemnification" meaning if they decided you fucked up, they won't pay your part of the lawsuit" You can make boss over here easy. I said so it will be much better. Fewer assholes to work with." I guess that's why 10 years after retirement I still get people from my beat calling me to ask how I'm doing".

11. We need to purge the white supremacists from the police force.

12. “ they don’t know if this man has dynamite strap to his chest…”

    Yeah because his ID will tell the police officers that… these lawyers are something else.

13. Ending Qualified Immunity is the one issue the Democrats have gotten 100% correct.

14. Takedown the COP problem solve

15. https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/ending-qualified-immunity-once-and-for-all-is-the-next-step-in-holding-police-accountable/

16. Police need to carry their own insurance for the first 25-50 thousand dollars of ANY lawsuit.
    Bad cops will eventually get dropped from their insurance companies. No insurance = No job.
    Problem solved.

17. Why was the officer instantly reaching for his cuffs? Did he have evil intent?

18. It’s a start 1000 mile walk starts with one step

19. Death of damn lie police officers are already practice that restraint when it deals with suspects that have little hands like they do, the only time they don't practice good policing is when little Hancock's deal with unarmed big hand man unless it's a female cop they seem to have more guts I guess then the little hand man cop

20. if no crimes no cops , people has to fear to walk on streets and go about their every day lives , only nonsense happening, America is not third a world but many made it worst than that

21. There is no such thing as 'qualified immunity', its a made up term by these idiot fascist liberal scum in America who want crime to increase.
    There are sociopaths across the US being spearheaded by these idiot liberal millenial/zoomers and their baby boomer enablers.

22. They are a fing gang assulting us stealing our money even murder
    Police need to go to jail for crimes just like us. How about charges when they lie on reports the blue line flag is an gang symbol

23. It’s a conservative Supreme Court. The case has no chance.

24. Qualifying Immunity just allows Racist cops to keep joining the police force in order to get away with Murdering Black People! Lets Stop pretending like white people don't know this. That's why they are fighting so hard to keep it! How could you justify allowing cops to use excessive force and or Murdering Human beings!

25. Jjjjjj pig defending pig

26. Welcome to America guilty until proven innocent

27. Bottom line is no one has a right over anyone else, anyone that claims that They have authority is someone try to impose there will over others

28. That what happens when you let Biden dems defund the police…wake up America…Biden is destroying your country

29. Those lawyers defending that cop really getting paid well for this

30. Obviously not all cases are the same, but does this new law imply now that if there’s someone on a mass shooting, the police now have to give a verbal warning?

31. I’m very scared of the officers out in America would I be next? 😰

32. dynamite 🤣 they asked for an id. he didnt have it on him. what is this nazi germany. present papers.

33. The 2nd amendment is the only protection from crime we need, defund the police, end the police state.

34. Extremism in the police and military ranks maybe why US troops are still stationed in Germany?
    
    Are they writing travel logs? Learning to be Nazis? Elvis was stationed there 60 years ago.
    
    How much has the US spent on the 76 years extremist training holiday since GI Blues?
    
    Let's hope the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act is followed through.

35. If they get more immunity they might as well give them a second gun

36. Man…these comments are great. If it’s so easy to get hired and any dumb person can be a cop, why don’t you guys do it and be the change you want to see? Oh, because you have no balls.

37. The solution is not to end qualified immunity. It is to make it easier to sue police departments. Once that happens the leadership will hold these guys accountable.

38. Eliminate qualified immunity for cops.

39. American police shouldn’t be like that.

40. So why did they even approach him? What had he done?

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