
Qualified Immunity
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The Sophistry of Qualified Immunity
The George Floyd case is not yet about qualified immunity. But certainly, when it reaches the court, it's going to be about what the cops should have known about rights in the Constitution as opposed to the much more salient fact that some guy who committed a very petty crime at worst had his fucking neck leaned on for nine minutes until he died. What could the Constitution possibly mean if that's not a violation of it?
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