Here’s a More Important Reform Than Ending Qualified Immunity Protests in San Francisco over the police killing of George Floyd, June 2020 (quinn norton/https://flic.kr/p/2j9bG9c/CC BY-NC 2.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) In the wake of the national protest and activism that followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, the public has paid more and more attention to the avenues available for legal response to police misconduct. Some focus rightly has gone to prosecuting offending officers. But Floyd’s killing also brought increased scrutiny on the barriers that prevent victims of police brutality from securing relief in civil court.