‘Shoot first, think later’: Obscure US law INCREASINGLY helps police officers to get away with using excessive force – report ...United Arab Emirates

US courts have been heavily relying on a 50-year-old legal loophole to shield cops from misconduct allegations, an investigation by Reuters claims. It allows officers to get off the hook even when their conduct is deemed unlawful. The share of civil rights cases, in which courts would resort to a controversial legal doctrine to shield officers from allegations of using excessive force, has been increasing in the recent years, Reuters has claimed in its new investigative report. The report draws on the data from 529 federal circuit court rulings published between 2005 and 2019 on appeals in the lawsuits where so-called “qualified immuni

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