* A police officer kills a twelve-year-old boy. It's caught on
video. The officer gets off. * A police officer strangles a man
selling cigarettes. It's caught on video. The officer gets off. * A
police officer shoots a man in his car. It's live-streamed. The
officer gets off. It happens over and over again. The culprit here,
alongside the cops, is Qualified Immunity (QI), a legal principle
which Reuters describes as "a nearly failsafe tool to let police
brutality go unpunished and deny victims their constitutional
rights." Originally intended to protect cops from being sued over
good faith mistakes, courts have interpreted QI so broadly that
police are shielded from accountability in all but the rarest of
circumstances. Only when the exact same abusive behavior was
already deemed unconstitutional by a court in the exact same
jurisdiction can victims succeed in a prosecution. Above the Law
recounts 12 cases in which justice was denied because of QI. The
stories are accompanied by infographics, timelines, and
contextualizing background to create a concise and compelling
indictment of an outrageously unjust legal principle that must be
changed.
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