End Qualified Immunity
Qualified immunity makes it nearly impossible to hold government officials liable for violating a person’s civil rights. I just contacted my Senators to tell them pass the Ending Qualified Immunity Act, join me and do the same: http://NXTGN.US/sb7

#NextGenAmerica #QualifiedImmunity

I have a new magazine on @Flipboard -
https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/acab-1312-52p4pqmfy
#NEWS
ACAB 1312
(open to co-admins)
BAD Cop, NO Donut! #Police #PoliceBrutality #Cops #Officers #1312 #F12 #BlueWallofSilence #Serpico #FilmthePolice #Accountability #BLM #K9police #HumanRights #CivilRights #Liberty #1stAmendment #4thAmendment #FuckthePolice #1a #auditing #4a #surveillance #FOP #IllegalSearch #QualifiedImmunity

I have a new magazine on @Flipboard -
https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/acab-1312-52p4pqmfy
#NEWS
ACAB 1312
(open to co-admins)
BAD Cop, NO Donut! #Police #PoliceBrutality #Cops #Officers #1312 #F12 #BlueWallofSilence #Serpico #FilmthePolice #Accountability #BLM #K9police #HumanRights #CivilRights #Liberty #1stAmendment #4thAmendment #FuckthePolice #1a #auditing #4a #surveillance #FOP #IllegalSearch #QualifiedImmunity

Qualified Immunity May Shield FBI Agents Who Abused the No-Fly List https://reason.com/2023/08/09/qualified-immunity-may-shield-fbi-agents-who-abused-the-no-fly-list/ #Law #QualifiedImmunity #Crime #Government

@Mary625 @ProPublica
🥥 As a former #Chicagoan, I'm not surprised at all by what this lying police officer was allowed to get away with.
Is NOW a good time to get rid of #QualifiedImmunity for #cops? 🥥

#QualifiedImmunity Faces an Existential Threat at the #SupremeCourt
https://newrepublic.com/article/175131/qualified-immunity-wrong-supreme-court

#Ohio #AttorneyGeneral #DaveYost nixes #qualifiedimmunity proposal, again
https://flip.it/E4TUUu
#police #cops #ACAB #policebrutality #FTP

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/31/newburgh_four

For the past 14 years, relatives of four men #jailed on #terrorism charges in Newburgh, New York, have accused the FBI of #entrapment. On Thursday, a federal judge agreed and ordered the release of three of the men known as the #NewburghFour: David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen. In a stunning decision, the judge accused the #FBI of inventing a #conspiracy.
To be #exonerated3 #AbolishTheFBI #qualifiedimmunity #corruptscotus #racialprofiling

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/2/headlines/aclu_sues_fbi_colorado_springs_police_for_surveillance_of_activists_during_2020_uprising

sued the FBI, the Colorado Springs #Police Department and local officers for illegally searching the private #Facebook #messages of a local #activist and the Chinook Center, a community organizing hub in Colorado Springs. The police also accessed the activist’s cellphone, laptop and external hard drives. This comes after revelations the FBI had infiltrated the Chinook Center by sending an #undercover Colorado Springs #detective to volunteer at the center in 2020. This was part of a broader FBI effort to #infiltrate #racialjustice groups in Colorado after the police #killing of #GeorgeFloyd.
#defundthepolice #qualifiedimmunity #corruptscotus

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/07/31/minnesota-bca-responding-to-useofforce-incident-along-i94-in-minneapolis

#BlackLivesMatter activists identified the man as 33-year-old Ricky Cobb of Minneapolis. They were planning a vigil for him
#BrokenTaillightPolicing #DrivingWhileBLACK #qualifiedimmunity

SCOTUSBlog's petition of the week asks: Is a prison guard entitled to #QualifiedImmunity after making a 67yo man with diabetes wounds on his ankles stand in feces-strewn shower water for 30 minutes, sending him back to #SolitaryConfinement with feces on his legs, and refusing him additional showers for a week?

(The man developed an infection and heart problems, requiring emergency surgery)

Both the trial court and the #11thCircuit ruled for the guard. #LawFedi #SCOTUS

https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/08/florida-man-contests-qualified-immunity-after-infection-from-forced-exposure-to-human-feces/

"What if Congress's literal language unequivocally negated the original interpretive premise for qualifiedimmunity?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html #qualifiedimmunity

@DemocracyMattersALot
There won't be real "justice" until #QualifiedImmunity is overturned.

#Cops LOSE #QualifiedImmunity in Our #Dog Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tCXqU8sflg
#police #ACAB #lawsuit #4thAmendment #brutality

A 17-year-old girl goes on a ride-along with a police officer, who allegedly sexually assaulted and harassed her multiple times.

Per the appellate court, the complaint described "a day-long sequence of inappropriate comments and questions punctuated by unwelcome physical sexual contacts."

The district judge - an Obama appointee! - ruled that the cop gets #QualifiedImmunity and dismissed the case.

Thankfully, this was reversed by the #7thCircuit

#LawFedi

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/22-1550/22-1550-2023-07-05.html

Yesterday in the #11thCircuit ...

A Georgia man was arrested for a probation violation. The problem? His probation was already over when he allegedly violated it. But his PO relied on a miscalculated date, so the man spent a month in jail.

The court concludes the error was merely negligent and not reckless or intentional. You know what this means: #QualifiedImmunity defeats the man's lawsuit. He won't recover anything for the time he was wrongfully jailed.

#LawFedi

https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/files/202213015.pdf

@jbe If #QualifiedImmunity shields the people who did the censoring, well, that happens all the time with gov't. agents. Especially in incarceration situations.

The declaratory relief, though: that is most excellent and very nice to see. Just because someone is incarcerated doesn't mean their [truncated set of] rights shouldn't be protected.

#Georgia DOC officials blocked outgoing emails from an inmate, on the basis that they asked for info to be forwarded to others.

#11thCircuit holds the prison officials violated the inmate's #14A #DueProcess protected liberty interests.

...BUT, #QualifiedImmunity defeats his lawsuit anyway, since there were no binding decisions directly on-point. (His declaratory action survives, though.)

#LawFedi

https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202111982.pdf

I don't think I've ever respected the Supreme Court of the United States. Their whole deal is built on being non-partisan, but anybody with half a brain knows that's total BS. Still, there are a few cases that I like to keep in mind. Namely, DeShaney v. Winnebago County and Castle Rock v. Gonzalez. The first case involves the Department of Social Services not protecting a child from severe (ultimately fatal) physical abuse, and the second involves police not enforcing a restraining order and that inaction resulting in the murder of three children. Basically, these cases are what I consider to be the groundwork for police not having a mandate to promote safety. Mind you, these cases have nothing to do with the concept of qualified immunity aside from protecting the individual officers involved.
Please note, I'm not a lawyer. I don't even have a college degree. I just really like keeping smarty-pants stuff in my back pocket. You never know when you'll need smarty-pants stuff like laws or semicolons.
#SCOTUS #USPol #QualifiedImmunity #FTP #FuckThePolice #ACAB

Attorney General #Yost denies the #Ohio Coalition to End #QualifiedImmunity once again
https://flip.it/REi.Y5