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The qualified immunity we have today came from a ruling in the late 1960s, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement which also spawned a lot of other laws that g
by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
The qualified immunity we have today came from a ruling in the late 1960s, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement which also spawned a lot of other laws that gave the police more powers. So unless we think the US was absurd in the 60s, it's an empty statement to say that it will lead to absurd results.
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- ttfkam 4y agoIf you weren't a white man, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was pretty absurd in the 1960s. Also conspicuous that QI was introduced as a concept around the time police were being told they couldn't knock non-white heads in with impunity anymore.