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31 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This bill would let cops sue protesters for *harassment*. And yet these same people say the public shouldn’t be able to sue cops who steal, destroy property, shoot children, & set people on fire. See the problem?
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30 Jul
This is a wild story & a crash course in the powers police can so easily abuse: from the drug war, to surveillance, to botched warrants, to no-knock raids.

Texas cops raided the wrong home. They kept searching anyway.

My latest @reason: reason.com/2021/07/30/qua…
Police got a warrant to raid Lucil Basco's home for drugs based on a confidential informant who told them the residence had meth.

She did not, in fact, have meth, but the police failed to do a basic investigation.
reason.com/2021/07/30/qua…
They *did* surveil her thoroughly, however.

Officers conducted a traffic stop where "they searched her vehicle and learned that she is a nurse." And they watched her home where she lives with her small child. reason.com/2021/07/30/qua…
Read 9 tweets
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28 Jun
A suicidal man burned to death after cops shot him with Tasers, knowing he was covered in gas. A court says that’s a reasonable use of force.

This is one of the most shocking cases I’ve covered. Let’s talk about accountability. 🧵

My latest @reason:
reason.com/2021/06/28/qua…
Gabriel Olivas was having a mental health crisis when police came to help. They knew he was doused in gas—and one warned that tasing him would set him on fire.

The other cops did it anyway. He was burned alive, & his family’s home burned along with him.
reason.com/2021/06/28/qua…
Here’s where it gets rich. The 5th Circuit said the officers didn’t violate Olivas’ rights—when they set him & the home ablaze—because he posed a threat.

But the fire that endangered others was set in motion *because* of the cops…not in spite of them.
reason.com/2021/06/28/qua…
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5 May
Four Texas cops hog-tied a man & held him on the ground for 5-and-a-half minutes. He was not resisting, nor did he have a weapon.

He died. The officers got qualified immunity.

Last month, an appeals court overturned that.

My latest @reason:
reason.com/2021/05/05/qua…
An autopsy ruled it homicide by asphyxiation. The court was tasked with deciding whether or not it was "clearly established" that cops cannot apply such extreme force to a subject who isn't resisting.

Is there anything more ridiculous than qualified immunity?
What's most amazing is that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the original ruling.

This is the same court that gave qualified immunity to prison guards who locked a naked inmate in cells covered in human feces & raw sewage.
reason.com/2020/06/25/qua…
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30 Mar
Here's a doozy: A group of cops knowingly violated the First Amendment when they tried to force a man to delete a video of them beating a suspect, a federal court said this week.

That same court gave them qualified immunity anyway.

My latest @reason:
reason.com/2021/03/30/qua…
The story: A man named Levi Frasier sees a group of cops making an arrest in an alleged drug deal, & he films them punching the suspect 6 times in the face.

The cops find Frasier afterward, surround him, search his tablet without a warrant, & try to delete the video.
The kicker: The cops had *specific training* on this issue. The public has the right to film an arrest, and the cops knew it. The city had explicitly told them so.

The 10th Circuit acknowledged this & agreed it was a free speech violation.
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26 Mar
Some good news for your Friday: New York City has voted to end qualified immunity for police officers.

Hi, Congress. Are you watching?

My latest @reason:
reason.com/2021/03/26/new…
@justinamash's bill from last June would've ended qualified immunity for all state actors. It had tripartisan support. It never received a vote.
reason.com/2020/06/06/jus…
@RepPressley reintroduced that bill earlier this month. I sincerely hope people will hear her out.
reason.com/2021/03/01/aya…
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26 Mar
ICE set up a fake college, stole millions of dollars from immigrants who *came here legally*...and then deported them.

The Biden admin has claimed sovereign immunity, & says the plaintiffs have no right to sue.

Lots to unpack here.

My latest @reason:
reason.com/2021/03/26/ice…
I talked with a man who came to the U.S. legally from India. His student visa was running out, so he applied for a master's at the University of Farmington.

The university's website, secretly set up by ICE, claimed to be approved by DHS's Student and Exchange Visitor Program.
So he enrolled, paid $15,000 in tuition, & got his visa. He then got a letter telling him it was all a lie & he needed to leave the country.

600 other students are in the same boat. Some left right away. About 250 were arrested & deported.

None have gotten their money back.
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