This is important, but the fundamental changes need to go deeper. We shouldn’t be okay with simply making an unjust system less unjust.
Ed Markey
 @SenMarkey
24 Aug 2020
The Senate needs to immediately pass the legislation I introduced with @SenSanders and @SenWarren to abolish qualified immunity for law enforcement officers once and for all.

Aug 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM UTC

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Not until; WHAT IS THE STANDARD FOR HOW POLICE should respond to attacks, physically resisting arrest or imminent danger with a weapon ? How many situations would be avoided if people “obey civilian authority and don’t attack or resist police ?
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Politics is the art of the possible. But in your defense when I worked on an MCH project in the Sudan, there were those who argued that shifting tradition from severe forms of #FGM to less severe forms should be commended. I (& any self-respecting feminist) cannot but disagree.
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You know that qualified immunity is just for civil lawsuits, right? Getting rid of it will allow ambulance-chasing attornies to buy a vacation home. It won't change much else.
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I agree 100% ... the whole idea police and policing in America ... needs to be looked at in a totally new way!
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Some immunity could go BUT so should the immunity Extended to prosecutors & politicians. No one should be immune from repercussions for bad acts.
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Peace and love
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We need to act on the state & city levels. The GOP made it clear they're against removal of qualified immunity. People are dying NOW. Colorado made it happen in SIXTEEN days. STILL, there's a matter of enforcement amongst the enforcers. denverpost.com/2020/06/19/co…

How Colorado found the political will to pass a sweeping police reform law in just 16 days

Faced with demonstrations outside the Colorado Capitol, state lawmakers took less than 48 hours to agree to run a sweeping police accountability measure that was signed into law Friday. Here is how…

denverpost.com
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Yes we also need to end sovereign immunity for the government. Laws need to apply to everyone equally
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Well I suppose anything less than abolishing capitalism would fall into that category. Ok sounds good.
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