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In his State of the Union address, Biden said that he wants to hold police 'accountable.' But he neglected to mention the elephant in the room.

Police Officers Never Learn “Clearly Established Law” SHARE Most people would agree that police officers shouldn’t be punished for split‐​second mistakes in judgment. That’s why the Garner tests for whether or not an officer’s use of force amounts to a constitutional violation require an analysis of whether that use of force was reasonable with regard to the particular circumstances the officer was in. But qualified immunity goes beyond Graham and Garner with its maddeningly arbitrary “clearly established law” requirement. In effect, “clearly established law” ...

It's Time to Get Rid of Qualified Immunity | Opinion Billy Binion , Assistant Editor at Reason magazine On 4/28/21 at 11:00 AM EDT On July 10, 2014, Michael Vickers, a deputy sheriff in Coffee County, Georgia, fired two shots. The first missed its target. The second also missed its target—and hit an unarmed 10-year-old boy instead. The sheriff and a few other officers were in pursuit of a fleeing suspect just before the shooting. To escape the police, the suspect ran onto Amy Corbitt's property, where six children including her own were playing, two of them under the age ...