BOSTON (WWLP) – Qualified immunity for police officers was a hot-button issue on Beacon Hill in 2020 during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, and lawmakers are debating similar policies ...
Congresswoman Pressley delivered a floor speech on the need to end qualified immunity for federal law enforcement, including immigration officers. Watch the floor speech here.
Originating from a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court opinion regarding the termination of government employees in retaliation for speaking out about the Nixon Administration, the doctrine of qualified immunity ...
The ruling is the second this year that attorney Tracey Hinson has won from the Third Circuit. In January, the court ruled that a Newark police officer is not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil ...
Six days after 37-year-old Minneapolis mom and wife Renee Good’s shooting death by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, Massachusetts congressional lawmakers Sen. Ed Markey and Rep.
Clarence Belton was the only Black cop participating in a drug raid of a Black man’s house in North Carolina when he was shot ...
It’s been more than five years since the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer and more than four years since Massachusetts passed a police reform law spurred by that ...