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1 May, 8 tweets, 3 min read
“Qualified immunity” is what has enabled police officers to virtually never be held accountable or face consequences for breaking the very laws that their job is to enforce and has allowed thousands of them to literally get away with murder.

GET. RID. OF. QUALIFIED. IMMUNITY.
The entire concept of qualified immunity makes no sense unless the goal is to give the people in charge of enforcing the laws a license to break them. Its origins are of course rooted in racism and were to enable police—who were initially slave patrols—to do just that. Abolish it
If anything, members of law enforcement should be held to HIGHER standards when it comes to following the laws. Qualified immunity is built in to police union contracts; and serves to disincentivize them from doing that because they know they will almost never face consequences.
Does the idea of people whose training has drilled into their minds that every scene they are called to could be a life or death scenario for them showing up with guns knowing they will almost certainly not be held responsible for killing anyone make you feel safer? It shouldn’t
Getting rid of qualified immunity is a vital step to police reform. But the entire system needs to be overhauled if the goal is really public safety. Right now, it serves primarily to protect property, and harass, terrorize, assault, arrest & kill members of marginalized groups
This article written by a former cop outlines how all the flaws with the policing system in America that lead to the murder of thousands of George Floyd’s and Brianna Taylor’s every year are baked into it at every level. This is not protecting/serving us.
medium.com/@OfcrACab/conf…
What it really boils down to is this: the police system as it currently stands in America serves to protect and serve two things: white supremacy and capitalism. The conviction of the officer who killed George Floyd is progress; but needs to become the norm, not the exception.
Ending with this. To all the “Blue lives matter” folks, you don’t care about “blue lives,” you care about white lives; that’s why you don’t speak out when police murder POC every day. As for the “All lives matter” crowd, please see the illustration below.
#BlackLivesMatter

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