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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,654 posts) Mon Aug 1, 2022, 01:56 PM Aug 2022

On Friday, the 5th Cir. granted #QualifiedImmunity to a mayor, police chief, and attorney ...

On Friday, the 5th Cir. granted #QualifiedImmunity to a mayor, police chief, and attorney LARPing as a "special detective," who conspired (for months) to retaliate against a 72-year-old lady who challenged their grip on power in Castle Hills, TX.

They threw her in jail. 👇👇👇

In #QualifiedImmunity news, a 2-1 5th Cir. granted QI to a group of Castle Hills, TX officials who conspired to throw @IJ client and then-72yo Sylvia Gonzalez in jail for exercising her #FirstAmendment rights to speech and petition. #AppellateTwitter
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On Friday, the 5th Cir. granted #QualifiedImmunity to a mayor, police chief, and attorney ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2022 OP

Qualified immunity is another term for a license to kill Black people... brush Aug 2022 #1

brush

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1. Qualified immunity is another term for a license to kill Black people...

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Mon Aug 1, 2022, 02:31 PM

Aug 2022

and other POCs. Let's just be truthful about it. Racist cops know if they kill a Black man, even an unarmed one, he's got qualified immunity...a license to kill.

He/she may as well be 007.

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