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>>anigbr+(OP)
not being a lawyer, i'm not familiar with all of the various levels of charges, but is this something that could be charged with something along the lines of negligent homicide? playing the what if game, but what if the actions of the police are deemed improper? what are the possible repercussions of the collateral damage?

>>dylan6+S2
possibly you are very young or not from the usa

assuming the newspaper's allegations are correct, in the best plausible case, her family sues the city government for wrongful death, qualified immunity shields the thugs, the family wins the case and gets awarded a large amount of money that the government has to pay, which raises taxes on the people living in the area in order to pay it

there is essentially no chance that the district attorney's office will prosecute crooked cops; those crooked cops are their closest collaborators when they are doing what they do 99% of the time, which is prosecuting poor people who don't work for the government. the prosecution of derek chauvin was no more a matter of business as usual than the prosecution of julian assange

>>kragen+y4
The best plausible case involves a federal criminal investigation and charges for conspiracy against rights and/or deprivation of rights under color of law under 18 USC § 241 and/or 18 USC § 242.

(First two entries on this page) https://www.justice.gov/crt/statutes-enforced-criminal-secti...

>>dragon+v9
how many people have been convicted under these sections in the last decade

i'm guessing less than 5

it's true that federal prosecutors have the freedom to prosecute local cops without themselves becoming unemployable, in a way that non-federal prosecutors do not