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I have a basic intro at https://endqualifiedimmunity.com https://endqualifiedimmunity.com and link to more detailed articles at the end of the site.

• dsl 6y ago
  First off, I absolutely love the photo of the cops dancing with the protestor. Secondly, you should flesh out your description of what qualified immunity is so people have an understanding of what being for or against it really means. Please feel free to use parts of the explanation I posted here previously: Lets say you want to build a deck. You put together the plans, take them to the planning commission, and they rightfully reject it for being structurally unsound. Qualified immunity is what prevents you from personally suing each member of the planning commission to pressure them in to reversing their decision. Think of it like the legal system throwing an exception, we aren't even going to consider this because your beef is with the city not an individual employee. Police have qualified immunity because otherwise they would face personal lawsuits every time they wrote a rich guy a speeding ticket, or a convicted murderer has nothing better to do but get his law degree in prison. Qualified immunity does not protect civil servants from criminal charges, or when a disinterested party (someone who does not stand to benefit from the case, say the ACLU or NAACP) files suit.