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Back in 2005, SCOTUS ruled about the "Constitutional requirement" for police officers to protect people. There is none. The opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia (who I sincerely hope is now spending eternity burning in torment and hellfire).
Further, the "qualified immunity" of police while performing their work ensures that ver…
Back in 2005, SCOTUS ruled about the "Constitutional requirement" for police officers to protect people. There is none. The opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia (who I sincerely hope is now spending eternity burning in torment and hellfire).
Further, the "qualified immunity" of police while performing their work ensures that very little will be done to hold the officers who didn't enter the school in a timely way to save frightened children from death responsible for those deaths. "As the Supreme Court held in Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), “government officials performing discretionary functions, generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known"."
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21277104/end-qualified-immunity-police-definition-george-floyd
RE: Scalia et alia — yep, past time to re-write Dante’s Inferno!
mlbrowne. Thank you. My eyes are open now.
Cops are only required to shoot at unarmed black men. I get it.