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Cop Opens Fire Into Group Of Innocent Children, Shooting A Child In The Back

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  As TFTP reports on  a daily  basis, being innocent - even an innocent child -  is not any  defense against police kidnapping, caging, or killing you. Jamar Nicholson Green learned this the hard way when a trigger happy cop opened fire on him and  a gaggle  of friends as they freestyle rapped on their  way to  school. Green and his friends had committed no crime and were unarmed. The incident unfolded in 2015, but the lawsuit was only recently settled  and therefore the  taxpayers  of Los Angeles  county  are going to be  dispensing  nearly $1 million for the negligent and deadly actions of LAPD officer Michael Gutierrez. Gutierrez - who  wasn't  in uniform at the time - saw  the youngster's  freestyle rapping at the meet-up spot and noticed that  one among  them was holding a toy gun. This is not  equivalent  to some incidents  during which  the gun resembles an actual gun. This one was clearly marked as an  entertain  a highly visible orange barrel and  didn't  appear as

Federal Judge Makes Radical Move to End Qualified Immunity for Bad Cops, Nationally

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  Cities quite literally burned over the anger that has been boiling up over decades as cops kill people - who are often innocent, unarmed, and even children -  and obtain  away with it. To strike  the basis  of  the matter  ,  we'd like  bad cops held accountable. One major  thanks to  do that  is by ending Qualified Immunity. This month, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves filed a 72-page opinion blasting qualified immunity which has given countless bad cops a pass all  supported  a severely flawed doctrine. In Jamison v. McClendon, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves recently concluded that Officer Nick McClendon violated Clarence Jamison's Fourth Amendment rights when he subjected Jamison to  an almost  two-hour ordeal that included badgering, pressuring, lying and intrusively searching his car. The judge's hands were tied by the qualified immunity doctrine so he was forced to deny Jamison's legal claim. Reeves, an African American man, traced  the event