Trump Judge Upholds Qualified Immunity for Police Officer Charged with Improperly Seizing Person's Phone and Punishing Him for Taking Pictures of Police Conduct: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears
People for the American Way People For the American Way Trump Judge Upholds Qualified Immunity for Police Officer Charged with Improperly Seizing Person’s Phone and Punishing Him for Taking Pictures of Police Conduct: Confirmed Judges, Confirmed Fears News and Analysis Even as America was riveted on the importance of members of the public recording police misconduct in the Derek Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd, Trump Eleventh Circuit judge Kevin Newsom wrote a divided ruling that upheld the grant of qualified immunity to a police officer who seized a person’s cellphone and...