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Sunday #longreads: check out the data-driven @Reuters investigation into the Supreme Court-embraced legal defense of “qualified immunity” that protects police from excessive force claims https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/
Critics of qualified immunity want the Supreme Court to reverse course, but there’s a problem: no consensus on what exactly should be done
Police have to make split-seconds decisions in moments of potential danger, so a lot of people think there should be some kind of protection for officers acting in good faith
Supreme Court justices as soon as this Friday could discuss privately almost a dozen cases asking them to consider reforming qualified immunity, or even tossing it altogether
Even the ACLU lawyers with one of the cases pending at the Supreme Court concede they aren’t exactly sure what the justices should do
Read the full story here: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-scotus/
See also this thread: https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1258731200455290882
