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Chadren Mullenix
The most recent Supreme Court case directly addressing qualified immunity is Mullinix v Luna 2015. In that case, there is a high speed chase. Sky is running from the police, calls them and says he has a gun and we'll use it. If the police don't give up the chase, police lay out a spike strip to stop the car. One officer wanted to open fire from an overpass with a rifle into the car just before it hit the spike strip. This is insanely dangerous. You do learn that shooting into a speeding car from a bridge onto the highway is really fucking dangerous. And so in the last decade since Pearson, when cops tried to claim qualified immunity, they won