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We’ll see if they go to jail: the la riots were the result of a jury saying that Rodney king deserved his beating. Personally I think the most effective step w
by olliej 4y ago
We’ll see if they go to jail: the la riots were the result of a jury saying that Rodney king deserved his beating.
Personally I think the most effective step would be to make funds for civil payouts come out of police retirement and overtime budgets. Relying on policing of the police stopping anything is unlikely: just last year a group of police murdered the officer who was investigating them, and had no meaningful consequences.
- landemva 4y agoMost effective would be to remove the USSC policy of qualified immunity, which USSC basically made up in the 1970s. It makes it ridiculously difficult to successfully sue for damages. The States could start to change this, but that would require activists to stop the racial arguments and go after the State laws.
- olliej 4y agoWhat’s absurd is not only was QI completely invented, but that police apparently successfully argue “I didn’t know that I wasn’t allowed to break the law”, “I thought the law says being a police officer means you can beat people to death”, etc
- the_only_law 4y agoYeah meanwhile for everyone else “ignorance of the law is not an excuse…”, etc.