Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴May 23, 2024
"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." #police https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/
County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability: "A failure of democracy"

More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade — and it's increasingly happening in small towns and rural areas.

CBS News
Show threadDanaBlankenhorn
@Nonya_Bidniss Every police badge is a license to kill with qualified immunity
May 23, 2024 at 3:39pmWeb
Show threadKevin LeecasterMay 23, 2024

@DanaBlankenhorn @Nonya_Bidniss
Jackson, Mississippi is no stranger to the doctrine of qualified immunity, which immunizes state and local officials from most federal civil rights lawsuits. Its origins can be traced back to the 1967 case Pierson v. Ray, where the Supreme Court established it in ruling against a group of priests who sued Jackson police officers who had arrested them on spurious grounds at a civil rights protest

This judge just took on that SCOTUS ruling: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24674613/green-v-thomas.pdf