End Qualified Immunity Nation Wide!
I know many of you will say if this guy just listened to the officer this wouldnt have happened. Should his being rude excuse this officer for leaving this 61yo man with 8 broken ribs? If he was so confrontational in his failure to comply, why didnt they prosecute? This officer should be incarcerated.
On the bright side, he wasn’t African-American, or he would be dead.
But he won’t be.
When faced with a video of police wrong doing you trotted out this sad old chestnut as a means of deflection.
Classy.
cRiT EVERYTHING!
There’s the problem with “a nation of laws” forced on a people who feel they’re free.
He’s not. No matter how much you wish he was.
So we’ll never know.
How stupid do you want cops to be? You would have to be a complete moron to take that job without qualified immunity. Pay me a hundred million a year and I would think about it.
But you do see how often it leads to abuses of the people right?
More unarmed white men have been killed by police than unarmed black men.
That’s right. Inject race into it.
If the cop got immunity for that, it wasn’t qualified immunity, it was absolute immunity.
Define often. what percentage of police stops?
Abuses flow in the other dirrection too.
Who initiates the contact from a position of dominance?
I guess I better learn the different types of “Immunity” if I am going to post on them.
All I am saying, is a police officer shouldnt be able to hide behind his badge when he does something that is obviously illegal for anyone else to do. Leaving this guy with 8 broken ribs is obviously illegal. Shutting off his body cam is obviously illegal or damn well should be.
All Police Officers should be required to be “Bonded” that they pay for. They do something stupid, the “Bond” pays out, not the citizens of the locale. Currently, when they do something egregious, they just jump to a new department. Having a Bond would eliminate that. When the Bond pays out, the cost to purchase the bond goes up. If they do something really egregious, like brake grandpa’s 8 ribs, they wouldnt be able to afford the bond increase.
If you ask me the problem is often over training not under training. Instead of using common sense they follow procedure.
How often is it?
Could it be that we get selected news like this pumped by the media more often than in the past?
Rhetorical question. I doubt we can really answer it because we could only speculate on what was WAS (NOT) pumped in the past.
It does not help to be a jerk to a police officer. Just give him your name and be nice. Not that hard…
