"Qualified Immunity" is being hotly debated. I'm here to tell you there is nothing to debate. Anyone who wants Cops stripped it have no idea what they are talking about.

The Blue-haters will tell you it was invented in 1967.
No, it existed for generations before that. It was affirmed by SCOTUS in '67.
Blue-haters will always bring up George Floyd.
QI doesn't apply to criminal charges (so not Floyd's death), or even all civil cases.
Moreover, it applies to all public servants, not just cops.
It protects public servants from some personal law suits, but not all of them. If you sue a cop over a UoF, the Police Department takes the brunt of the suit, and shields the cop from court costs and/or penalties unless the plaintiff shows that the cop (in in other contexts, any public official) violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known."
It DOES NOT protect the official who was "plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law."
I just quoted the two SCOTUS cases that define what QI is, rulings the Blue-haters obviously never read.
ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS need this protection or ALL WILL BE AT CONTINIOUS RISK from trivial lawsuits driving them into financial ruin. Public Servants are not Indentured Servants, and should not be treated as such. NO ONE should take on these vital responsibilities if by standing up, they will be crushed into ruin by trolls.
Here in NYC Corey Johnson, New York City Council Speaker, and Lawrence O’Donnell, are moving to end it, and the way Johnson talks about it, he wants to end it ONLY for cops (in other words, not himself).
If these clowns get their way, every Cop will quit, and every Cop should quit. And NYC will become the setting of the next film in the "Road Warrior" francize, only this time, it won't be in the movies.

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