Qualified immunity doesn’t give them the authority but it gives them the de facto right.
That’s how they’ve acted for ages now. There examples of people being bound and sat in a row during arrest and a cop walking down the line spraying from 2020. Others from pipeline protests and back to occupy that I’ve heard of.
Once the they put on the riot gear they act like the blood-thirsty Nazis they are and ignore the legal protections of the protestors.
Qualified immunity doesn’t give them the authority but it gives them the de facto right.
That’s how they’ve acted for ages now. There examples of people being bound and sat in a row during arrest and a cop walking down the line spraying from 2020. Others from pipeline protests and back to occupy that I’ve heard of.
Once the they put on the riot gear they act like the blood-thirsty Nazis they are and ignore the legal protections of the protestors.