• Krono@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    Arredondo was taken into custody at the Uvalde County Jail Thursday afternoon, where family members and parents of several victims of the shooting gathered.

    Finally, some good fucking news.

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      4 months ago

      nearly every single higher court in this country (including the supreme court and all of texas’ courts) have upheld police immunity; so they have to know that he would eventually be set free, so i wonder why they’re doing this.

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        Because this is probably the best challenge to qualified immunity that’s ever been available.

        Complete and utter dereliction of duty.

        They even ignored their own department’s procedure on responding to an active shooter, so they can’t argue it wasn’t in their duty to stop the shooter, or they didn’t know how.

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          Which is the only legal remedy you’ll ever get against qualified immunity btw. There has to be a specific procedure for this that has been unmistakenly violated.

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                If we can get it to the SCOTUS, they may overturn QI. The law in question got copied wrong when they copied it from the congressional record into the federal register. Had the 1982 court been handed the law as passed, the 16 word clause that got omitted would have caused Harlow v Fitzgerald to go the other way.

                Hand them the original text, and they’ll have to overturn that decision.