Minerva @ Midnight: End LEO qualified immunity, let insurers find different profit centers
Ending qualified immunity for police officers would certainly fill the gap in insurance company revenues created by universal healthcare in the US. There’s plenty of other liabilities that insurance companies can cover including civilian firearms liability insurance on the model of auto insurance. Forcing individual officers to bear more individual liability for fatalities would alter police culture.
End LEO qualified immunity, give the insurance companies something different with which to wager risk/return after the onset of universal health care. We’re now damn tired of “accidental” shootings that ultimately wind-up being payouts of taxpayer money for wrongful death lawsuits against police departments.
Actually I will say something. Breanna Taylor was “accidentally” shot by police in her home in Louisville. Botham Jean was “accidentally” shot in Dallas by a cop who went in his apartment. Now Daunte Wright was “accidentally” shot instead of tasered. Too many “accidents” happen.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) April 12, 2021
How can a person "accidentally" mistake his sidearm for a taser? https://t.co/5rOrOVnniz pic.twitter.com/oiPoL8gFEI
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 12, 2021
Now the state AG should investigate the City Council and hold them accountable. Who on the City Council knew about racial profiling by police but did or said nothing about it?
George Floyd settlement: $27 million approved by Minneapolis City Council https://t.co/A0izkhrg13
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) March 12, 2021
Libraries. Sigh.
My local City Council cut library funding first, boosted Police funding whilst paying out over $1K in lawsuits for excessive use of force and wrongful death.
More PD lawsuits pending.
— Civil Discourse #FreedomToVoteAct (@civildiscourse7) December 5, 2020
Owner-operator insurance as a product.
Biden wants to end gun maker liability protections, a move that could sink the industry https://t.co/e3ATvP7yPl
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) April 9, 2021
“U.S. counties where lynchings were more prevalent from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved killings..” | Economic Policy Institute https://t.co/KuhSWl2nnj pic.twitter.com/AYqE7C8i8D
— Professor Fleming (@alwaystheself) April 13, 2021
“[yet] … the opposite relationship exists for whites: As the number of historical lynchings increases, the share of modern officer-involved shootings of whites decreases.” pic.twitter.com/mYCPCP6qPY
— Professor Fleming (@alwaystheself) April 13, 2021
This literally only makes sense if you can’t conceive of a world free of anti-Black racism or have no desire to see one. https://t.co/kLoKVBmb4J
— 😷💉🧼 COVID, FLU, RSV WAVES UNDERWAY (@BreeNewsome) April 13, 2021
