Cory Booker detailed his plan for how to better hold police accountable, including ending qualified immunity, on LSSC
Section 242, Booker explained, “makes it very hard to get a criminal conviction against a cop who has done things that violate all of our community standards as well as the law.” He continued, “And then their eligibility for civil penalties, there is a standard that has gotten called ‘qualified immunity,’ which is what it sounds like — making officers, many of them who’ve done very bad things, immune from civil suits as well.
One of the pillars of the bill, Booker said, will be to ensure that “no one is above the law, and that if you do heinous things that tear at the fabric of our community or even endanger or take lives, that the federal government of the United States will take action to hold you accountable.” As a way to further increase accountability, Booker called for the creation of a database to track police misconduct, shootings and killings.
“I will fight to get these things done so that, perhaps, the kids in my life will not have to ask themselves, ‘Am I safe just walking or jogging in my neighborhood?'” Booker said. “To me, I want to tear down systems of oppression in this country, like mass incarceration, laws that enable people who have no remorse — like the person who killed George Floyd — that we as a society, good people of goodwill, have systems that can hold them accountable for their actions.
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