Opinion: Qualified immunity for police officers must be eliminated
Ronnie Gipson
Ronnie Gipson, who teaches at the University of Memphis School of Law, litigated constitutional due-process claims in his prior career as an attorney. As a professor, he continues to address constitutional law issues in his classroom, scholarship and research.
“The qualified immunity privilege serves as a cloak of protection reminiscent of Jim Crow laws and as a vestige of racism that perpetuates unequal treatment before the law. It is both bad law and bad public policy.”
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