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Qualified Immunity

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The Ninth Circuit's Decision to Immunize a Police Officer From Suspension

The famously liberal Ninth Circuit held that the officers were immune from suit because it is not clearly established that gas bombing someone's house is a violation of the constitution if they give you consent to enter. Some other cases involve cops who unleashed a police dog on a suspect who had surrendered and was sitting on the ground with his hands up. An officer who parked his patrol car with a sirens on outside a man's house for an hour, knocking and looking into windows, disabling home security cameras. Also he could administer a breathalyzer to a man on probation. And an officer who chased a suspect into a yard where children were playingHad the children lay down while they detained the suspect who was cooperating

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