Kirk Freeman
Grandmaster
In Tippecanoe Circuit Court this week there is a criminal trial taking place on the African-American mopedist who had his throat ripped out by a police dog.
The State is not prosecuting the officer that directed the dog against a man sitting on a moped but they are prosecuting the mopedist.
In refusing to prosecute the Lafayette police officer the Special Prosecutor stated that police are allowed to act that was because of qualified immunity, they are the police and we must not question them. She admitted that they sicced a dog on a man merely sitting on a moped but it was not "clearly established" that they could not do so. It was an outrage and still is.
This is wrong and must stop. We can only stop this madness of prosecutors hiding behind the language of qualified immunity by abolishing QI. The police cannot be placed above the people.
The State is not prosecuting the officer that directed the dog against a man sitting on a moped but they are prosecuting the mopedist.
Man mauled by Lafayette police K9 in 2020 faces battery charges
Richard Bailey Jr. faces battery charges for the events that preceded him being mauled by a Lafayette police K9 on May 9, 2020.
www.jconline.com
In refusing to prosecute the Lafayette police officer the Special Prosecutor stated that police are allowed to act that was because of qualified immunity, they are the police and we must not question them. She admitted that they sicced a dog on a man merely sitting on a moped but it was not "clearly established" that they could not do so. It was an outrage and still is.
This is wrong and must stop. We can only stop this madness of prosecutors hiding behind the language of qualified immunity by abolishing QI. The police cannot be placed above the people.
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