Swalwell und Goldman bieten Gesetzesentwurf an, der ICE-Agenten die qualifizierte Immunität entzieht

Good first step.

Next we need to strip it from all LEO.

To all of you naysayers, at least they are trying. Though this should have been done from the get go!

Snippet:

* Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) are planning to introduce a bill that would strip federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of their qualified immunity protections.
* The bill, called the ICE OUT Act, comes amid fervent debate over whether an ICE officer should face criminal prosecution for the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good on Wednesday.
* The shooting put renewed attention on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics and called into question whether the officer’s use of force violated state or federal law.
* Federal law enforcement officers have broad legal protections when acting in the scope of their official duties. Still, states can bring charges under certain circumstances, including when an officer’s actions violate the law or are deemed not to be “necessary and proper” to fulfill their duties.

Edited to add:

>**Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine protecting government officials**, like police, from liability in civil lawsuits for constitutional violations, unless their conduct violated a „clearly established“ right, meaning a prior court case with nearly identical facts found such conduct unconstitutional. It balances holding officials accountable with shielding them from frivolous lawsuits, but critics argue it makes it extremely difficult to hold officers responsible for misconduct, while proponents say it allows them to perform duties without fear.

Seriously, qualified immunity needs to go. If individual ICE members are aware they can face civil consequences to their livelihoods for their gross negligence then maybe they’ll be more cautious about resorting to unchecked violence in every situation they face.

Let’s disarm them, too. Immigration charges arent felonies. They dont need 50 lbs of tactical hardware to arrest folks on administrative charges.

Strip all qualified immunity.

Just erase ICE from existence.

My only complaint is they should eliminate QI entirely and not just for ICE. It’s an entirely made up doctrine with no basis in the law or constitution that has allowed horrific police abuse.

No cop should have qualified immunity. We don’t live in a fairytale 

No one should have any immunity, not even you local pigs. Nothing will improve until they can face genuine consequences for harming you. As it stands, they do not give a fuck about violating you rights because it will never affect them. At best, you get to sue the municipality or county or whatever.

This will never happen… but at least you’re forcing a vote on it, good work

Should force them to carry insurance not unlike medical malpractice insurance if you carry or are required to carry a firearm for your job

Attorney here, once upon a time i worked at a firm that defended state agencies, including the department of corrections, against civil rights lawsuits (section 1983 claims). Let me tell you, while qualified immunity as a concept likely has place in our legal system to a degree, it has become nothing more than a functional bar against holding individuals responsible for just about everything.

It should be easier to strip QI from these people, police officers and other LEO should have to carry insurance, and damages for this type of behavior should also come partly out of their retirement. It’s absolutely insane that these people can commit these acts with functionally no repercussions, except a paid vacation to a desk job or just sent off to another department to continue as though nothing happened.

Even if they pass it, it’s going to get vetoed and then they don’t have the majority of a 60% vote to override a veto

Every single ICE agent must be sent to CECOT or Guantanamo.

Since they think that’s where criminals and terrorists belong, it’s only fair that they face incarceration for their endless violent crimes in those places.

Great idea. I don’t think it will even make it to the floor, let alone pass in this congress, but it’s worth trying.

How about we abolish qualified immunity all together?  Cops laugh at uninformed citizens who call themselves sovereign citizens because they know with qualified immunity all government actors are the real sovereign citizens.

Qualified immunity needs to be gone for the whole country, maybe then cops can behave themselves

How about stripping LE in general of qualified immunity?

How about we just abolish ICE? Great, thanks!

This is like proposing a bandaid for someone who’s lost a limb.

Do it for cops too.

Don’t stop at ICE. Tyranny knows no boundaries.

It’s a start. But when Democrats take back the House, ICE must be abolished entirely, not „dramatically and overwhelmingly revamped“ as they suggest at the end

Just strip all cops of qualified immunity. It’s been a disaster for civil rights.