That is the exception that proves the rule. The district court originally held that the officers DID have qualified immunity, even with the egregious offenses committed by the officers.
And the Supreme Court made clear that isn’t the law.
You (and the media trash pushing this narrative) seem to conflate QI with the absolute immunity that judges and prosecutors get.
The statistics show otherwise. In 2017 A UCLA professor reviewed how often cases are tossed for QI
“The cases included 131 from the Southern District of Texas, 225 from the Middle District of Florida, 172 from the Northern District of Ohio, 248 from the Northern District of California and 407 from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Qualified immunity could have been raised in 979 of those cases, Schwartz found. And just 3.9% of those cases were dismissed based on qualified immunity. Of all the 1,183 cases Schwartz studied, 0.6% were dismissed at the motion-to-dismiss stage — usually an early stage in civil litigation — and 2.6% were dismissed at summary judgment.”