Some people genuinely struggle to comprehend just how horrifying qualified immunity is in practice. People want to believe it's about split-second, lives-at-stake, no-good-options decisions by police officers. Their minds refuse to believe the kind of facts routinely blessed by district courts. - ThreadSky

maxkennerly.bsky.social • 601 days ago

Some people genuinely struggle to comprehend just how horrifying qualified immunity is in practice. People want to believe it's about split-second, lives-at-stake, no-good-options decisions by police officers. Their minds refuse to believe the kind of facts routinely blessed by district courts.

Reposted from Daniel A. Horwitz

Wait, holy shit.

(Via Short Circuit IJ.)

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genevathefirst.bsky.social•601 days ago

How old was the groper?

tonychan.bsky.social•601 days ago

the student that was groped was 17, but why should that matter?

genevathefirst.bsky.social•601 days ago

Its disgusting no matter what and an abuse of power. Doesn't really matter but I wondered if my mental image was accurate.

greatchumpion.bsky.social•582 days ago

When you're a citizen, it's "ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse"

When you're a cop, it's "qualified immunity protects them, you have to prove they didn't know".

Given the power cops otherwise have... That's horrifying.

ktetch.bsky.social•601 days ago

Qualified Immunity is basically the courts saying that cops are too mentally deficient to know the difference between right and wrong, let alone laws. Literally "willful ignorance of the law is an excuse if you're a cop'
It should immediately Disqualify you from being a cop if you claim a QI defense

spookycandle.bsky.social•601 days ago

i've literally lost count how many times the cops have raped me. nobody cares though, that's just what is supposed to happen to sex workers

whitequark.org•601 days ago

cannot in good conscience 'like' it so...
i'm sorry

zyla.top•601 days ago

another fun one is the double whammy in hospitals of charitable immunity and peer review!

you wouldnt sue me im a little birthday boyy im doin this out of the kindness of my heart *is a 56 billion dollar corporation in fact, hiding behind *charity*

zyla.top•601 days ago

peer review going well, maybe he kills 50 people a year on the table but listen, hes SO fun at poker nite

zyla.top•601 days ago

and if you somehow manage to actually achieve a judgment against someone, medical malpractice tort "reform" damages caps mean you're only getting a pittance no matter what a jury decides

zyla.top•601 days ago

we're so sorry to hear that we forgot about your new born baby and left him on the table for sixteen hours and he died. I hope this check will cover it

*slides across a check for $50,000*

zyla.top•601 days ago

"but the jury said sixteen million!!"

"IM JUST A BIRTHDAY BOY YOU WOULDNT HIT A BIRTHDAY BOY WOULD YOU???"

jordie.bsky.social•601 days ago

Qualified immunity is down right dangerous (as we already know). Lord Acton had it right: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

fauxmorian.bsky.social•582 days ago

Cops are the worst kind of "good ol' boys club"

Little more than a state sanctioned gang

rine.bsky.social•601 days ago

Its really hard to wrap your head around sometimes how far they'll bend over to give cops every out with QI, how absolutely narrow they'll make the 'oh, there wasn't a prior decision that said cops can't do -this-' when any reasonable person would just assume they can't.

barrycaplan.bsky.social•601 days ago

This happened in Porterville CA (Kevin McCarthy's district) 5 years ago. See the chief say the officer was the best officer he ever worked with, at 0:18. Very troubling about the rest if he was the best.

https://abc30.com/porterville-police-officer-arrested-tulare-county-crime-getting/4267866/

steinkobbe.bsky.social•600 days ago

I was not prepared for how insane that was going to be. There's a judge somewhere that thinks cops should rape girls because.. what

amtappeals.bsky.social•582 days ago

If that WERE the case, it might almost be defensible.

burrddoh.bsky.social•601 days ago

Omg wtf did I just read.

martinprincesr.bsky.social•601 days ago

The reversal was a genuine twist

shells.bsky.social•601 days ago

Wtf

nuclearbob.net•601 days ago

Indiana in the news!

confusatron.bsky.social•601 days ago

CYA but infinitely more horrible

walter1964.bsky.social•601 days ago

Only SS Nazis could do whatever they want without any accountability, it's fucking terrorist rught wing militant group protected by Christofascist Justice System, it's nightmare

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