The murder of George Floyd reinvigorated a national reckoning over police violence against Black people. And often, victims have no way to get justice. The reason? A hazy, convoluted legal doctrine known as "qualified immunity."
Drunk Law School will return on Monday, July 20, with Under Color of Law: a special three-part series that explores the origin of qualified immunity and how it intersects with police brutality.
In the meantime, the work of justice isn't finished. Breonna Taylor's killers are still free. Most U.S. cities have not passed meaningful police abolition. The United States still disproportionately kills and imprisons BIPOC, maintains segregation and unequal access to resources, and sits idly by while a global pandemic, largely controlled in nations with functioning governance, claims the lives of BIPOC at much higher rates than white people. The work continues.
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