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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by hkai on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:48AM (#23485296)
I believe it's classical case where there is enough evidence for a wrongful death civil lawsuit (which will typically end with a 5-10 million dollars settlement), but there is not enough evidence to convict the officers (or the boyfriend) of a crime in a criminal case.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by dvtrn on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:10AM (#23485386)
Charges were dropped against the boyfriend a week ago anyway[0].

[0] https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/charges-dropped-a...

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by lalaland1125 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:31AM (#23485478)
Qualified immunity would probably make that civil lawsuit much more difficult.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by hkai on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:28AM (#23486114)
Not sure - it seems that every well-known police murder case ended with a multi-million-dollar settlement, even though officers were often acquitted. Wikipedia has details on these.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by makomk on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:32AM (#23489918)
Qualified immunity only stops people from suing the individual police officers, and they don't even have enough money to pay out multi-million dollar settlements anyway. The big payouts come from suing the police department itself as an instituation and as I understand it they aren't protected by qualified immunity.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by genoapol on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:00AM (#23487884)
Unfortunely the boyfriend didn't kill a police officer. I feel reform of this "no knock/plain clothes/home invasion" policy would be more likely to occur with that outcome.
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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by ryandrake on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:27PM (#23492476)
If a police officer was killed, the more likely outcome would be even harsher and deadlier use of force during future "no knock/plain clothes/home invasions". As we have seen clearly during the past few weeks, police forces will trade away citizen lives for officer safety.
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