Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid...
by lalaland1125 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:31AM
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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
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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.
Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid...
by makomk on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:32AM
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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.