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You also want to sue the police department separately for wrongful arrest to keep them accountable and discourage a use of tech like this.
by darth_avocado 4y ago
You also want to sue the police department separately for wrongful arrest to keep them accountable and discourage a use of tech like this.
- bigiain 4y agoI would throw a few bucks towards a gofundme to pay for the legal costs for suing _both_ police departments involved here. The one who sought and got an arrest warrant based purely on facial recognition, and the one who picked him up thousands of miles away and refused to even investigate whether the original warrant could possibly apply when the guy they arrested had never even been to the city the warrant claimed he’d stolen in…
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- fortran77 4y agoYou can't. "Qualified Immunity". It would be nice, of course, if a good Qualified Immunity case hit our current SCOTUS. They may rule differently than past courts, if they're as principled as they purport to be.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoIn what universe have they shown themselves to be "principled"? Thomas's behavior, his wife's behavior? The court reversing a lot of prior decisions? The purposeful leak of one of the most important cases in the last decade?
- the_why_of_y 4y agoAs usual, sarcasm doesn't work well on HN.
- fortran77 4y ago“As they purport to be”
- Clubber 4y agoQualified Immunity only protects the individual. You can still sue the department or city.