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solarbirdThe third article on qualified immunity is another decent writeup on that. It needs to end.
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Joshua Potash
twitter.com/JoshuaPotash
26 June 2020
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1276636216469921792
Wow the police really think the rules just don’t apply to them. And they don’t care if they get us sick either.
[VIDEO: Many police inside Little Italy Doma Bella Pizzeria in New York, none with masks.]
[SEE ALSO:
jordansarge
twitter.com/jordansarge
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/jordansarge/status/1275526218520104962
6 new york city cops crammed into an already crowded store, none wearing masks (properly), on a corner (myrtle/bway) w/ tons of vulnerable ppl. when asked why none responded except for the bald one who said he already had it & thus doesn't care. these are your ppl twitter.com/NYCMayor
[EMBEDDED IMAGE similar to above, but at a corner shop]
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Jimmie Lee Jarvis
twitter.com/JLJLovesRVA
27 June 2020
https://twitter.com/JLJLovesRVA/status/1276794012633104385
[THREAD, up and down]
10:22pm After the chaos begins and multiple rounds are fired into the crowd on the North side, I made my way to the South side. A flashbang detonates directly in my face. twitter.com/woznyphoto caught this from another angle. Then a man is shot in the face right in front of me.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO of two people shot in the face with flashbangs, one of which is the photographer, in Richmond, Virginia.]
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For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
The U.S. high court’s continual refinement of an obscure legal doctrine has made it harder to hold police accountable when accused of using excessive force.
By ANDREW CHUNG, LAWRENCE HURLEY, JACKIE BOTTS, ANDREA JANUTA and GUILLERMO GOMEZ
Filed May 8, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/
Staff at the local hospital in tiny Madill, Oklahoma, called the police in the early evening of March 24, 2011, for help giving Johnny Leija an injection to calm him. Security cameras captured much of the ensuing encounter.
The officers, after shooting Leija with a stun gun, follow him down a corridor, shock him again, and wrestle him to the floor. One officer then straddles Leija’s back, trying to handcuff him as the others struggle to pull back his arms. They get one handcuff on. Leija goes limp. The officers step back. Hospital staff drop to Leija’s side and begin a futile effort to resuscitate him.
The Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Leija, his lungs already compromised by pneumonia, was starved for oxygen in his struggle with the police and died from “respiratory insufficiency.”
The county sheriff and the Madill police chief defended the officers’ actions as appropriate to the situation. The cops were not charged with any wrongdoing.
Erma Aldaba, however, blamed the officers for her son’s death. “My son wasn’t a criminal, my son was sick,” she said in an interview.
So Aldaba took the only other route open to people in her situation: She sued. Her lawsuit in federal district court in Muskogee, Oklahoma, alleged that the three officers used excessive force, violating her son’s civil rights under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
But almost immediately, her case hit a formidable obstacle: a little-known legal doctrine called qualified immunity. This 50-year-old creation of the U.S. Supreme Court is meant to protect government employees from frivolous litigation. In recent years, however, it has become a highly effective shield in thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold cops accountable when they are accused of using excessive force.
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Detroit police SUV plows through group of protesters, flings people who climbed on hood
June 29, 2020
By Timothy Bella
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/detroit-police-suv-plows-through-group-of-protesters-flings-people-who-climbed-on-hood/
A largely peaceful protest in Detroit against systemic racism and police brutality turned violent on Sunday night as a police SUV plowed through a group of protesters, striking multiple people and sending a couple demonstrators who had climbed on the hood flying from the vehicle.
Police accelerated the vehicle multiple times as dozens of protesters surrounded the SUV, according to videos of the incident posted to social media. After each acceleration, protesters could be heard shrieking in shock, pleading for the driver to stop putting their foot on the gas while people were in front of the vehicle and being thrown from the hood of the car.
“Detroit Police Department just ran straight through a bunch of our protesters,” Ethan Ketner, a protester who filmed the scene, wrote on Facebook. “Myself and 10-12 others were struck by this reckless driver who somehow has a badge.”
The extent of the injuries remains unclear as of early Monday. Ketner wrote that “multiple people injured” were receiving treatment at local hospitals.
The Detroit Police Department did not return messages left by The Washington Post, but spokeswoman Sgt. Nicole Kirkwood told the Detroit Free Press that while she was aware of the incident, she was awaiting further details before giving an official statement. Police said to WDIV that an investigation was underway. The driver has not been publicly identified.
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Portland police arrest 8, fire crowd-control munitions
Updated 6:26 am PDT, Monday, June 29, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Portland-police-arrest-8-fire-crowd-control-15372284.php
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police arrested eight people and fired crowd-control munitions to disperse protesters who threw rocks and bottles during demonstrations in front of law enforcement buildings on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The series of confrontations began late Saturday, the 30th consecutive day of demonstrations outside the Multnomah County Justice Center, where protesters used fencing and street barricades to block off a street, according to KOIN-TV and the Portland Police Bureau.
Thousands of people in the liberal Pacific Northwest city have turned out every night for a month since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Civil liberties advocates say the police response has been overly aggressive and said in a lawsuit Sunday that the tactics appear designed to squelch free speech.
Portland police said that lasers were shined into officers' eyes, and people threw rocks, bottles and paint at them during the demonstration. After using loudspeakers to tell the protesters to leave, officers used riot-control munitions to disperse the crowd, police said.
- Wow the police really think the rules just don’t apply to them. And they don’t care if they get us sick either.
- Richmond, Virginia police shoot two people in face with flash grenades, including photographer
- For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
- Detroit police SUV plows through group of protesters, flings people who climbed on hood
- Portland police arrest 8, fire crowd-control munitions
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Joshua Potash
twitter.com/JoshuaPotash
26 June 2020
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1276636216469921792
Wow the police really think the rules just don’t apply to them. And they don’t care if they get us sick either.
[VIDEO: Many police inside Little Italy Doma Bella Pizzeria in New York, none with masks.]
[SEE ALSO:
jordansarge
twitter.com/jordansarge
23 June 2020
https://twitter.com/jordansarge/status/1275526218520104962
6 new york city cops crammed into an already crowded store, none wearing masks (properly), on a corner (myrtle/bway) w/ tons of vulnerable ppl. when asked why none responded except for the bald one who said he already had it & thus doesn't care. these are your ppl twitter.com/NYCMayor
[EMBEDDED IMAGE similar to above, but at a corner shop]
]
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Jimmie Lee Jarvis
twitter.com/JLJLovesRVA
27 June 2020
https://twitter.com/JLJLovesRVA/status/1276794012633104385
[THREAD, up and down]
10:22pm After the chaos begins and multiple rounds are fired into the crowd on the North side, I made my way to the South side. A flashbang detonates directly in my face. twitter.com/woznyphoto caught this from another angle. Then a man is shot in the face right in front of me.
[EMBEDDED VIDEO of two people shot in the face with flashbangs, one of which is the photographer, in Richmond, Virginia.]
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For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection
The U.S. high court’s continual refinement of an obscure legal doctrine has made it harder to hold police accountable when accused of using excessive force.
By ANDREW CHUNG, LAWRENCE HURLEY, JACKIE BOTTS, ANDREA JANUTA and GUILLERMO GOMEZ
Filed May 8, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/
Staff at the local hospital in tiny Madill, Oklahoma, called the police in the early evening of March 24, 2011, for help giving Johnny Leija an injection to calm him. Security cameras captured much of the ensuing encounter.
The officers, after shooting Leija with a stun gun, follow him down a corridor, shock him again, and wrestle him to the floor. One officer then straddles Leija’s back, trying to handcuff him as the others struggle to pull back his arms. They get one handcuff on. Leija goes limp. The officers step back. Hospital staff drop to Leija’s side and begin a futile effort to resuscitate him.
The Oklahoma Chief Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Leija, his lungs already compromised by pneumonia, was starved for oxygen in his struggle with the police and died from “respiratory insufficiency.”
The county sheriff and the Madill police chief defended the officers’ actions as appropriate to the situation. The cops were not charged with any wrongdoing.
Erma Aldaba, however, blamed the officers for her son’s death. “My son wasn’t a criminal, my son was sick,” she said in an interview.
So Aldaba took the only other route open to people in her situation: She sued. Her lawsuit in federal district court in Muskogee, Oklahoma, alleged that the three officers used excessive force, violating her son’s civil rights under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
But almost immediately, her case hit a formidable obstacle: a little-known legal doctrine called qualified immunity. This 50-year-old creation of the U.S. Supreme Court is meant to protect government employees from frivolous litigation. In recent years, however, it has become a highly effective shield in thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold cops accountable when they are accused of using excessive force.
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Detroit police SUV plows through group of protesters, flings people who climbed on hood
June 29, 2020
By Timothy Bella
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/detroit-police-suv-plows-through-group-of-protesters-flings-people-who-climbed-on-hood/
A largely peaceful protest in Detroit against systemic racism and police brutality turned violent on Sunday night as a police SUV plowed through a group of protesters, striking multiple people and sending a couple demonstrators who had climbed on the hood flying from the vehicle.
Police accelerated the vehicle multiple times as dozens of protesters surrounded the SUV, according to videos of the incident posted to social media. After each acceleration, protesters could be heard shrieking in shock, pleading for the driver to stop putting their foot on the gas while people were in front of the vehicle and being thrown from the hood of the car.
“Detroit Police Department just ran straight through a bunch of our protesters,” Ethan Ketner, a protester who filmed the scene, wrote on Facebook. “Myself and 10-12 others were struck by this reckless driver who somehow has a badge.”
The extent of the injuries remains unclear as of early Monday. Ketner wrote that “multiple people injured” were receiving treatment at local hospitals.
The Detroit Police Department did not return messages left by The Washington Post, but spokeswoman Sgt. Nicole Kirkwood told the Detroit Free Press that while she was aware of the incident, she was awaiting further details before giving an official statement. Police said to WDIV that an investigation was underway. The driver has not been publicly identified.
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Portland police arrest 8, fire crowd-control munitions
Updated 6:26 am PDT, Monday, June 29, 2020
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Portland-police-arrest-8-fire-crowd-control-15372284.php
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police arrested eight people and fired crowd-control munitions to disperse protesters who threw rocks and bottles during demonstrations in front of law enforcement buildings on Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The series of confrontations began late Saturday, the 30th consecutive day of demonstrations outside the Multnomah County Justice Center, where protesters used fencing and street barricades to block off a street, according to KOIN-TV and the Portland Police Bureau.
Thousands of people in the liberal Pacific Northwest city have turned out every night for a month since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Civil liberties advocates say the police response has been overly aggressive and said in a lawsuit Sunday that the tactics appear designed to squelch free speech.
Portland police said that lasers were shined into officers' eyes, and people threw rocks, bottles and paint at them during the demonstration. After using loudspeakers to tell the protesters to leave, officers used riot-control munitions to disperse the crowd, police said.
