The FED can’t enable these financially reckless blue cities.
No money.
Another piece of crap?! What is with these USA haters? Move to another country, Amash.
Stupid virtue signalling of the highest order. How do you strip sovereign immunity from one narrow slice of government, while (as I am certain) it will remain for remainder of government?
How is this even a Federal issue, Mr. So-Called-Libertarian? Want to change qualified immunity, take it up with the state legislatures.
But he claims to be a “True Conservative”.
Just another liberal phoney who suckered people in. Still on China’s payroll, no doubt.
Doesn’t seem very libertarian.
Tlaib’s support means it is a trash bill.
You can bet on that..
Let’s tie the cops’ hands, take their guns, defund the force and see what happens. Especially in the “Murder City,” Detroit. Mayhem.
The more they try to cripple the police, the more important the 2nd amendment becomes.
That makes zero sense. How much money are they going to get from the officers? Certainly not as much as they’d get going after the deep pockets of the police department or local government.
Police, by their very nature, are going to make criminals angry. Now the criminals get to harass those who stopped their evil? This is a RATs idea of the good? Democrats continue to be the party of evil.
If this goes into effect, who would ever want to be an officer, knowing you will be bombarded with liability suits.
Many of those suits would probably be fake or based on pre-existing problems. No.
1. Define “Victims”.
2. Are Politicians who ignore our Constitution exempt from being Sued? Their actions have much more far reaching effects than an isolated incident.
3. If a Victim (Criminal) is found Guilty of a Crime, can he / she / it still Sue?
4. Why would anyone decide to join a Police Force if this passes?
Does this mean people can sue Amash for claiming he’s a libertarian (fraud)?
Police officers could buy an insurance policy that would pay out claims and protect the taxpayer from financial liability when police officers become criminals and kill or injure citizens.
it will be interesting to see where the FR rowdies go on this one; they will have to see which one they currently hate the most — and they hate them both very much right now; law enforcement or justin mashed.
Good. Actually, this strengthens the concept of sovereign immunity - it means that the government itself cannot be sued for malfeasance, but its actors can.
Amash has gone out of his way to demonstrate what a complete anal orifice he is, and how much he has surrendered to the likes of lawlessness and anarchy. He is despicable and should be booted out of office and hounded out of this country.
That should be a really great incentive for recruiting quality police officers. In the future, the only people who will apply for cop jobs are the minimum pay power hungry bullies.
There is no pattern of brutality by police. There is a pattern of lawlessness, violence and resisting arrest by blacks. DOJ numbers prove it beyond doubt. This Losertarian jackass needs to take a hike.
I have supported the abolition of Qualified Immunity for 30 years.
It’s an abomination designed to protect not only cops, but every politician too. And prosecutors. And judges.
For instance: The mayors and governors and cops who are refusing to enforce the law and allowing our cities to burn, can never be held responsible.
They can conspire with antifa and BLM to burn our cities and never been held to account in the people’s courts.