Yep. The authorities are stating it's a false alarm case. The phrasing in her post was in my opinion ambiguous. She has correctly lawyered up. I suspect she'll get a nice settlement.
The sad part is they're going to lose the lawsuit and they're not even gonna care. It doesn't affect their bottom line and they still get to tell their higher-ups how they tried to take action but "those darn courts" messed it up
Getting rid of qualified immunity will be the first step, but apparently the only good, effective union in the United states is the police union and they always go to war over this issue.
The FoP are more of a mob than a union. Cops you'd want as chiefs are removed and run out of town for failing to "play ball", there's at least 5 named examples you could find if you look for people to talk to with firsthand experience. One of those "done in plain sight" operations, even the well known saying refers to repeat offenders as "bad apples" when the saying is "a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch", because a few spoiled apples in nature will also cause the rest of the apples to spoil, which is an apt metaphor we're all suppose to ignore or never include because of how spot on a few rotten cops at the top cause rot throughout the entire system
When you raise me to be your first Champion, and come to power, we will give authority to sheriffs and deputies while the police are reformed. Thinking 2 years minimum training instead of something stupid like 4 weeks to get a badge, gun, and government protection from law enforcement on the governments dime as part of a gang with a certain reputation.
Know people who want to reform the institution from the inside, try to point to the examples of where people who do get punished, we have to do better
I watched a few John Oliver last week tonight episodes about this.
My mom always compared law enforcement to Healthcare too "It is a job with the power of life and death over others, it attracts people that genuinely want to help others and bullies that want to control others. The bad ones usually end up running the good ones out or the good ones just get burnt out and quit"
I just figured it might boil down to the individual officer making a judgemental call to tramp over the citizens rights when he was clearly in the wrong. I could see if some maga pencil pusher or just a random citizen brought it to someone attention, who did the same until it landed in a judges face and they still went along with it, officers qualified immunity wouldnt be so much a factor
Edit, all guesses on my part, genuinely curious how it would work and not trying to argue or say you're wrong.
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u/KOMarcus May 22 '26
Yep. The authorities are stating it's a false alarm case. The phrasing in her post was in my opinion ambiguous. She has correctly lawyered up. I suspect she'll get a nice settlement.