"I'm giving federal immunity to police officers so they can do their job." - DJT
Look around, how are LEO'S treating us with qualified immunity? We cant trust these people with Federal immunity! They already walk around like Feudal era Samurai, mercing citizens at the slightest provocation. This is the first and only agenda 47 item im against and I need to know how the community feels about it.
We gotta get someone in his inner circle to talk him back from a huge mistake here. Why are we giving the greatest amount of latitude to those with supposedly the most training, and then holding the untrained citizenry to the highest moral standards of all? Police need more ACCOUNTABILITY, not immunity.
This bodycam footage of an officer shooting an IL woman who was holding a pot of boiling water (with a lot of space and a counter between them) is a good reason not to give immunity.
https://youtu.be/snD_TeRdcMo?si=QAeBouaFgV1jSHvq
The body cam thing always had me confused. There were many departments fighting for these thinking they would help them, but instead it ended up adding an extra level of scrutiny. Now every move they make can be scrutinized by world completely out of context (that being no officer commentary to explain their perspective).
When I saw all these departments pushing for this I was thinking, these guys have no idea what they're in for. Now every cop at these departments has a first person recording view point of everything they do. That includes bullshit arrests, the lies they tell people to get them to incriminate themselves, and the dumb stuff they do with their service weapons.
The good cops don't want to deal with that BS everyday and the bad cops can't deal with it because they get caught and fired like the asshole in this video.
Smart. I agree with you. My dad is a retired police officer. He says all the changes in the past 10-15 years were designed to federalize the police force. I can see that.
Thanks for your interesting comment.