The 9th Circuit today granted qualified immunity to an officer who shot a man six times. The decision nicely illustrates why the justifications for qualified immunity doctrine bear scant relationship to reality, and why it is brutally unjust. 🧵 1/10
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@JCSchwartzProf “We’ve never held police violate settled law by shooting a man 6X total, including 4X after he was on the ground. In Doe police shot the suspect *5X total. In Roe police shot the suspect 3X on the ground. Thus, Doe & Roe are inapposite under our QI precedents” #QualifiedImmunity