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1. kragen+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-08-13 02:19:15
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

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2. dragon+X4[view] [source] 2023-08-13 03:16:26
>>kragen+(OP)
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...

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3. kragen+0e[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-08-13 05:18:32
>>dragon+X4
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

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4. dragon+8h1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-08-13 15:40:14
>>kragen+0e
> how many people have been convicted under these sections in the last decade

There was enough criminal activity under those provisions and coordinated DOJ civil litigation (which often is a product of investigations that start as criminal investigation of a specific incident, but end up discovering systemic problems in the investigated department) against local police departments under the civil provisions of civil rights law that cutting back on both was a major and public priority of the Trump Administration when it came into office in 2017.

While I can’t think of many recent notable convictions (off the top of my head, the four MPD officers convicted related to George Floyd's murder are the only ones that jump to mind), officers involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting will be going on trial under it this year (current trial date is the end of October, IIRC; the one who reached a plea deal for helping prepare the falsified warrant application pled under a more general conspiracy statute.)

But, while its not a lot of prosecutions, its enough to show that it is more than a theoretical possibility where multiple police officers deliberately act together against a Constitutional rights and leave someone dead as a consequence.

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5. kragen+Vl2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-08-13 22:13:53
>>dragon+8h1
i'm guessing there haven't been any non-notable convictions under these sections recently or ever
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