THE POLICE PROBLEM @lemmy.world s38b35M5 @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Fifth Circuit Rejects Dog-Killing Cop’s Pleas For Qualified Immunity

www.techdirt.com Fifth Circuit Rejects Dog-Killing Cop’s Pleas For Qualified Immunity

Well, well, well. Is the Fifth Circuit finally going to start redeeming itself? Just recently, the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court bucked the appellate trend (well, what there was of it…) by decl…

The video makes it disturbingly clear that the kitchen floor, onto which Killian was ordering Ramirez and Gonzales to lie down, was covered by this point in their dogs’ blood.

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Holy shit, a reasonable ruling from the 5th circuit?
- Dog-murdering only has partial support amongst conservatives.
I wish I didn't read that. JFC...
- Does it go into detail about the dog? I need to know so I don't read that.
  
  Close enough, yes.
  
  What sort of detail? It explains their neutral postures and wagging tails, but thankfully no description of their end beyond number of shots fired and the blood on the floor.
I’ve heard about a lot of these cases over the years, to the point where I thought it was routine that cops just shoot dogs in some parts of the US. How is it that this case is succeeding where others had failed?

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