Police act like laws don't apply to them because of 'qualified immunity.' They're right.
For 40 years now, qualified immunity routinely shields both incompetent law enforcement and those who knowingly violate the law.
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United States federal law that shields government officials from being sued for discretionary actions performed within their official capacity, unless their actions violated "clearly established" federal law or constitutional rights.
In the last year alone courts have granted qualified immunity to:
► Officers who stole $225,000;
► A cop who shot a 10 year old while trying to shoot a nonthreatening family dog;
► Prison officials who locked an inmate in a sewage-flooded cell for days;
► SWAT team members who fired gas grenades into an innocent woman’s empty home;
► Medical board officials who rifled through a doctor’s client files without a warrant;
► County officials who held a 14 year old in pretrial solitary confinement for over a month;
► A cop who body-slammed a 5-foot-tall woman for walking away from him;
► And police who picked up a mentally infirmed man, drove him to the county line, and dropped him off at dusk along the highway, where he was later struck and killed by a motorist.
I don't want to pile on with a millionLaw Enforcement Disproportionate Responses but I've done exactly that on this post here.