I would call it a criminal violation of their civil rights. Also assault and battery, just coming up and starting to grab at that girl. Unfortunately it turns out we don’t have much recourse when it comes to defending our civil rights.
Unfortunately it turns out we don’t have much recourse when it comes to defending our civil rights.
With a few minor tweaks, that we should demand, we can protect our civil rights.
Currently, police have qualified immunity. In other words, if they make a mistake and get sued, the police dept. must pay restitution. Or, in other words, the taxpayer. QI is necessary to protect police from being expected to know every nuance in the law. HOWEVER, if a police officer willingly violates someones Constitution right, he/she should pay it himself. Threat of losing ones job is really not enough, because we don’t know if they will actually be fired or not from a corrupt police force.
Just like threat of arrest makes people comply, threat of losing ones qualified immunity should work as well.
It would not take to many police officers having to pay out 40 to 50k for this nonsense to stop.