The ruling won't help him much, because he also was convicted of a more serious charge, based on a "particularly weird" form of the felony murder doctrine.
"What they're doing is like robbery," observed one property owner.
In two opinions issued Monday, the Court gave qualified immunity to several police officers accused of violating the Constitution.
Art Acevedo provoked many complaints, but they paled in comparison to his prior record of negligence and obliviousness.
"It gives cities a protection that ordinary citizens never have."
Floyd was arrested for selling crack by a crooked Houston narcotics cop who repeatedly lied to implicate people in drug crimes.
Qualified immunity "does not protect an officer who inflicts deadly force on a person who is only a threat to himself."
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 2 into law, despite some objections from police unions.
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Dillon Shane Webb will thus not be able to sue for the alleged violation of his free speech rights.
One of Richard Wright's best books went unpublished in his lifetime, due to "unbearable" scenes of police brutality. Now at last it is in print.
It's almost impossible to hold federal officers to account.
The report from the attorney general's office also found that Aurora paramedics used ketamine illegally to treat "excited delirium."
The Lonoke County sergeant was already fired for not turning on his body camera during the encounter.
The law's "vagueness permits those in power to weaponize its enforcement against any group who wishes to express any message that the government disapproves of," Judge Mark Eaton Walker warns.
A federal court admitted the officers violated the man's rights. It doesn't matter.
Whether or not this constitutes meaningful accountability is up for debate.
While libertarians will be inclined to applaud some of the new laws, others exemplify familiar conservative excesses.
The 32 charges include manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and second-degree assault.
A couple claims the Harris County Sheriff's Office in Texas seized their life savings two years ago on suspicion of drug trafficking. A new lawsuit says they're not the only ones.
Supporting the cause because your "side" went down is not a principled position.
The police department is the same one where an officer injured a 73-year-old woman with dementia last year.
A little-known agreement allows police officers to seize packages at FedEx sorting centers.
The Justice Department is investigating whether top brass were part of a cover-up.
Horror filmmaking has always been political, but the new Candyman takes it to a different level.
Otis Mallet's ordeal, like the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, involved a fictional drug purchase.
Lawmakers have reportedly taken any changes to qualified immunity off the table.
Ricky Kidd wants accountability.
The most powerful officers are held to the lowest standard of accountability.
Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
The sheriff's predictive policing program has caused more problems than it's solved.
The latest in a long string of allegations that Chicago police terrorized families during botched raids
Yet under qualified immunity, it's incredibly difficult for the public to sue police.
Three of the officers were denied qualified immunity, but accountability is a long way off.
"If the police don't want to be filmed or observed, they should get out of the public service field."
Every time cops denounce reform efforts it is evidence of a win.
The law enforcement agency has a disturbing record of drumming up the very conspiracies they're investigating.
Police unions so often protect their own—at the expense of the public.
The case is yet another instance of law enforcement using hate crime enhancements to punish people for criticizing them.
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