It is unlikely that a civil suit against him will prevail. I think it is high time that the age old established precedents of sovereign immunity and no duty of care be narrowed if not abolished outright. I don’t know if a legislature can do this and survive a challenge in court. But if an officer knew that he was no longer exempt from personal liability because of his actions while on duty it might curb a bunch of abuses.
lastchance I have been advocating for personal accountability for LEO’s for a very long time. Hiding behind the badge, sovereign immunity makes it possible, even probable that people who happen to be LEO will do things they would not otherwise do. They would be limited by personal morality, personal ethics. The same personal morality and ethics that curtails the actions of all of us. With the concept of sovereign immunity morality and ethics become institutional morality and ethics. So what is taught in POST becomes moral and ethical superseding personal morality and personal ethics.
Institutional morality and ethics are imposed. In this day and age of internet and global communications morality and ethics can be centrally crafted, disseminated and imposed. I do not, I cannot trust these institutions any more than I can trust UC Berkeley, or The Swamp. These places do not respect Natural Law. These institutions are diametrically opposed to Natural Law. So it follows they are opposed to the U.S. Constitution.
So yes. pierce the veil!