As an attorney I can't find a legal basis for this decision and I am horrified. The victim spent a month in the hospital with a brain bleed and fractured skull, and it was caught on tape.
cbsnews.com/news/grand-jur… via @CBSNews
cbsnews.com/news/grand-jur… via @CBSNews
What is even more disturbing is that after these officers were arrested following their attack, 60 other officers refused to serve on the task force any longer.
60 officers believed this was justified and right conduct. 60 officers defended this and would do the same.
60 officers believed this was justified and right conduct. 60 officers defended this and would do the same.
No institution is healthy with unfettered authority. But when those authority figures are given the ability to use force, and even deadly force, the checks and balances ought to be that much higher.
Instead, they are almost nonexistent.
Instead, they are almost nonexistent.
This is one of many reasons that soveriegn immunity doctrines are in need of substantial reform.
Abuse thrives not with bad apples, but with bad SYSTEMS.
This is the product of a system, and that system was just affirmed. We should all be horrified and deeply concerned.
Abuse thrives not with bad apples, but with bad SYSTEMS.
This is the product of a system, and that system was just affirmed. We should all be horrified and deeply concerned.
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