Supreme Court excessive force ruling could be 'a big deal,' lawyer says

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The decision could be 'something that changes the way police treat people.'

The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have created a movement demanding police reform, but what does that mean?The Supreme Court last month remanded a lower court's ruling that police officers who used excessive force on a 27-year-old man who died in their custody were protected because they didn't know their actions were unconstitutional.

Steve Art, an attorney who submitted a brief on behalf of the ACLU for the case, shared Taylor's sentiments. The officers pushed to receive qualified immunity -- meaning they'd be shielded from personal liability unless proven to have violated clearly established constitutional rights -- when confronted with the lawsuit in 2016, and in 2019, that immunity was granted by a federal judge in the 8th Circuit Court who did acknowledge that excessive force had been used.

Alito wrote the dissent, which included:"We have two respective options: deny review of the fact-bound question that the case presents or grant the petition, have the case briefed and argued, roll up our sleeves and decide the real issue. I favor the latter course, but what we should not do is take the easy out that the court has chosen."

"I think the Court recognizes this political moment, in particular, that there is heightened attention being paid to these kinds of issues," Taylor added."I think that partially explains why the Supreme Court didn't let this go.

Gilbert at the time was homeless and under the influence of methamphetamines when he was arrested for a nonviolent misdemeanor, police said. After Gilbert died, officers said they believed he was experiencing a"mental health crisis" when he was in his cell, prompting officers to engage and restrain him.

 

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Can't mandate, classical music in cop cars, but load it in anyway. You'll feel the bad mojo dropping. I'll chilling out, with this zombie chilling music.

Good! The BLM protests are working and they are taking notice that we are fed up.

Cops will be using funnoodles instead of batons. Nice.

And it had better be a big thing.

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It’s funny you know. Covid and now the delta variant just attacks. Doesn’t have any morals or limits. It just attacks and spreads with excessive force. So if it takes some force to push the message that the sydneyprotest are terrorists and to stay home so be if. Wear a 😷.

What is he holding scary

Blacks deserve it

thanks

They should treat people how they did before Biden took office and crime skyrocketed .

when are we going to police the bad people? if i were a cop i would say f$% this, quit and write a book about how the gov't turned its back on police and the job they do. they are heros. we should take away private security from our gov't

scary picture, do better

Make the brutality settlements come out of their pensions and that will change things

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