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1. Burnin+2v[view] [source] 2020-06-01 18:19:23
>>mnm1+(OP)
Just so we know what we're talking about, here is a description of the 13 Qualified Immunity cases that may get to the Supreme Court soon.

https://www.cato.org/blog/may-15th-supreme-court-will-finall...

Sample:

Jessop v. City of Fresno. In this case, the Ninth Circuit granted immunity to police officers who stole over $225,000 in cash and rare coins in the course of executing a search warrant. The court noted that while “the theft [of] personal property by police officers sworn to uphold the law” may be “morally wrong,” the officers could not be sued for the theft because the Ninth Circuit had never issued a decision specifically involving the question of “whether the theft of property covered by the terms of a search warrant, and seized pursuant to that warrant, violates the Fourth Amendment.”

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2. Button+dx[view] [source] 2020-06-01 18:31:00
>>Burnin+2v
I don't get the logic. When executing a warrent is the 4th amendment the only law that must be followed? If I murder someone while executing a warrent, is it unclear whether I broke the law, because the court has never declared that murder violates the 4th amendment?
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3. lsiebe+Yy[view] [source] 2020-06-01 18:40:51
>>Button+dx
This is a civil rights lawsuit, not a criminal case.
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4. pas+bJ[view] [source] 2020-06-01 19:33:15
>>lsiebe+Yy
How come the officer isn't charged with theft/larceny?
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5. TheMag+QN[view] [source] 2020-06-01 19:57:44
>>pas+bJ
Because the district attorney would have to bring those charges, and he doesn't want to, because it's his homies.
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6. pas+FS[view] [source] 2020-06-01 20:21:38
>>TheMag+QN
Tough on crime, as long as it wasn't perpetrated by mah buddies in blu?
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