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Dems: Don't Defund the Police. Break Them!
Town Hall ^ | 30 June2021 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 07/01/2021 6:26:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan

In the left's ongoing war on the police, their plan to strip cops of qualified immunity is among the most preposterous. The sole objective is to jam up cops and make them more passive.

Qualified immunity means a police officer can't be sued for violating someone's constitutional rights unless those rights are "clearly established." Officers can still be fired. They can still be disciplined. And they can still be criminally prosecuted. They just can't be sued by every lowlife they arrest.

Liberals act as if qualified immunity is some extra-special benefit bestowed only on police, unheard of in any other line of work. Michigan's power-mad Attorney General Dana Nessel says, "We're not asking that police officers even be held to a higher standard than other professions, just to the same standard as other professions."

How about you, Dana? Can you be sued?

No, but that's different.

Indeed, the Michigan attorney general doesn't have mere "qualified immunity" from civil suits: She has absolute immunity. Unlike police officers, even if Nessel violates clearly established constitutional rights, she cannot be sued.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dananessel; defundtheprosecutors; fido; nazinessel

1 posted on 07/01/2021 6:26:05 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

I say GO FOR IT!

Just don’t ask the red states to come to your rescue!


2 posted on 07/01/2021 6:28:06 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Rummyfan

Are the Democrats simply a criminal organization?

Well, they certainly want to make sure that the cops can’t hassle them.


3 posted on 07/01/2021 6:28:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Rummyfan
How about allowing San Francisco business owners to sue the laughably unqualified, George Soros-sponsored DA, Chesa Boudin? Instead of prosecuting crime -- technically, his job -- he decided not to prosecute crime. As night follows day -- or crime follows Soros DAs -- local stores were emptied of their inventory by carefree shoplifters carting away loot in laundry bags and shopping carts.

Same with the other Soros-backed DAs in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and elsewhere.

4 posted on 07/01/2021 6:30:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Rummyfan

Don’t defund the police. DEFEND the police.


5 posted on 07/01/2021 6:30:10 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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To: Rummyfan
their plan to strip cops of qualified immunity

This ought to help with police recruitment.

Police Recruiting Plummets While Crime Surges In Major US Cities

Police in Charlotte, N.C., said applications decreased 26% in the first months of 2021 while applications to the Des Moines, Iowa, police department were reportedly down 50% from ...Over 100 officers left the Minneapolis Police Department.

--Daily Caller

6 posted on 07/01/2021 6:32:14 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Are the Democrats simply a criminal organization?

*************

They crave power and control over people and they are willing to do whatever is necessary to get, maintain and expand it.

The want to run every aspect of our lives and they rely on big government to it. That is the main weapon they use, which is why we must find a way to take that power away from them.


7 posted on 07/01/2021 6:42:36 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Rummyfan

“ even if Nessel violates clearly established constitutional rights, she cannot be sued.”

This needs to change.

Now.

L


8 posted on 07/01/2021 6:43:57 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Rummyfan

Democrats ARE TERRORISTS


9 posted on 07/01/2021 6:51:30 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Rummyfan

When the police are gone what group or groups that fill that void will be 1000x worse that any bad cop. There will be accountability, justice will be immediate, the death penalty will be applied as a punishment for most crimes.


10 posted on 07/01/2021 7:01:44 AM PDT by The Louiswu ( No one is immune to the after-effects of girls, cocaine, and dry martinis.)
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To: The Louiswu

be accountability, = NO accountability


11 posted on 07/01/2021 7:02:16 AM PDT by The Louiswu ( No one is immune to the after-effects of girls, cocaine, and dry martinis.)
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To: Rummyfan
Officers can still be fired. They can still be disciplined. And they can still be criminally prosecuted.

Except that they're not fired or prosecuted.
12 posted on 07/01/2021 7:03:38 AM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: Rummyfan
Hellinois (Illinois) stripped police of qualified immunity earlier this year.

The result: Law Enforcement Officers at the municipal, county and state levels are quitting in record numbers.

One of them was my oldest son. I'm glad he quit. No LEO should be forced to put their and their family's financial well being on the line as they get peppered by frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit, designed to break them financially.

No wonder Americans are purchasing weapons and conceal/carrying in record numbers.

13 posted on 07/01/2021 7:07:46 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Rummyfan
Same with the other Soros-backed DAs in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

Add Chicago to that list. C(r)ook County States Attorney refuses to prosecute a single BLM or Antifa "peaceful protester."

14 posted on 07/01/2021 7:11:44 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Rummyfan

Oh they want police alright, they want police that do their bidding.


15 posted on 07/01/2021 7:12:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Defund the prosecutors.

No one talks about THAT.

16 posted on 07/01/2021 8:06:47 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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