Screw #qualifiedImmunity: individual officers who make these extralegal decisions to kidnap and deport based on no legitimate reasonable suspicion whatsoever should face criminal indictment.

"Just following orders" is not a defense in the United States of America in 2025.

https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/114706327134137240

This week, in #Hernandez et. al. v. City of Los Angeles (docket no. 21-55994), the US Court of #Appeals for the Ninth Circuit chipped away at the misguided #legal principle of #qualifiedImmunity. The case involved a female officer, Toni McBride, who put six bullets in a suspect—the last 2 of which were fired while the suspect was "rolling on the ground".

In a 6-5 en banc decision, the court overturned a 3-judge panel's ruling that qualified immunity protected (now former) Officer McBride, based on a horrifying 2017 precedent from Orange County in which a Sheriff's Department officer essentially executed a prisoner, firing six shots into him after he'd already been hit several times and was lying on the ground. (In the earlier case, Zion v. County of Orange, the officer then stomped on the mortally wounded suspect's head.)

It's always good news when cops are held to account for their actions.

5 years after #GeorgeFloyd's #murder

#law #PoliceAbuse #PoliceReform #SystemicRacism #ExcessiveForce #PoliceViolence #QualifiedImmunity #Trump #DOJ #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E5801D2D-5163-436A-AA1B-7D9DE956DF60

On #ThisDayInHistory, in 1992, the #LARiots began. Five days, 63 killed, 2383 wounded, a billion in property damage, and it wasn't enough. 33 years later, #PoliceBrutality is worse, #QualifiedImmunity still exists, and both parties arm the #PoliceState.
#AbolishThePolice #BLM

My #wishes for #2025 (not that I think any of this will come true):

1. #KamalaHarris is sworn-in as the 47th #POTUS.
2. #Democrats get a #SuperMajority in the #House and #Senate
3. Democrats use their Super Majority to admit #PuertoRico and #DC as the 51st and 52nd State.
4. The #SCOTUS is expanded from 9 justices to 13 justices, with the 4 new justices being all liberal.
5. #RoeVWade is codified into law.
6. #QualifiedImmunity is outlawed.
7. Donald #Trump and his entire family is imprisoned.
8. Elon #Musk has his citizenship revoked and is deported back to South Africa

One can wish, can't they?

AI writing police reports can allow officers to avoid responsibility for said reports

One concern of AI is the ability to abdicate (maybe even say, 'obfuscate') responsibility

Do something bad in report?

Solution for any unethical behavior?

"blame the AI machine"

Maybe some even see this as a benefit. More immunity.

w/Love to see all pitch emails / inner discussion

#policing #News #AI #artificialintelligence #Law #Qualifiedimmunity #ethics #activism #police

https://www.kqed.org/news/12007520/how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-reports-police-write

Police commissioners ensure that LE officers have #qualifiedimmunity across the US.

Since becoming COMR last July, Caban has short-circuited cases involving officers accused of wantonly using chokeholds, deploying Tasers & beating protesters with batons. A number of episodes were so serious that the police oversight agency, known as the Civilian Complaint Review Board, concluded the officers likely committed crimes.
officer discipline.

#LawEnforcement #Corruption
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-commissioner-edward-caban-police-discipline-retention-eric-adams

These are the LE officers who were caught *many more. #LawEnforcement officers basically have #impunity. That must change: patriarchy, little accountability, complicit pols...keeps many in #media #politicians...quiet.

New: Abused by the badge: 100s of police officers have sexually exploited children since 2005.

Arrested officers:

99%: men.
66%: >5 yrs of service.
47%: Chiefs, top sheriffs, or other agency heads.
~40%: WEREN'T SENTENCED TO PRISON.

#QualifiedImmunity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/police-officers-child-sexual-abuse-in-america/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE4MTY0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE5NTQ3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTgxNjQ4MDAsImp0aSI6ImJiOThiODE1LWYwOGItNDU3ZC05MTgxLWQ2YzhjOWI4Mjc0OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbnZlc3RpZ2F0aW9ucy9pbnRlcmFjdGl2ZS8yMDI0L3BvbGljZS1vZmZpY2Vycy1jaGlsZC1zZXh1YWwtYWJ1c2UtaW4tYW1lcmljYS8ifQ.KGpgyaLCRPPY5ElH_-r5cMz2SOEPmsp_tZL5BNnhL2U&itid=gfta