kcarruthersWonkette has the right of it: The Problem With Police Reform Is That Police Already Know It's Bad To Beat People To Death https://www.wonkette.com/tyre-nichols-police-reform
David Alpert@kcarruthers @20002ist Does the existence of these previous reform rules make it easier to prosecute the officers? Because as I understand it, qualified immunity says unless officers were explicitly told “don’t beat people to death” then they could argue “we weren’t told that” and get away with it.
@20002ist @kcarruthers Here, there were rules to “Require officers to give a verbal warning in all situations before using deadly force” and “Require officers to intervene and stop excessive force used by other officers.” I wonder if that helps here, since there were clear rules it appears they ignored. Is that right or no, I wonder?