Qualified Immunity The Right to Kill

For many years, our government has been getting away with violating the legal rights of citizens. The 1871 Civil Rights Act (Ku Klux Klan Act) allowed Americans to sue public officials who violated their legal rights and shall be liable to the party injured. In 1967 The Supreme Court changed that law and decided to protect their public officials more than its’ citizens. This law is called Qualified Immunity. And now that most people know the truth about qualified immunity, it is becoming a big controversy about it.

Qualified immunity states that no public official can be charged with violating a citizens’ rights unless they can clearly establish proof that their rights were violated. This basically means that you have to find an incident were an officer was charged for the same crime once before and in the exact same manner in detail. This makes it impossible for anyone to sue an officer. This grants them the power to kill people of color and break into their homes, with or without warrants, in which Bloomberg Law states that this law was based on race and that some politicians partook in some events terrorizing people of color.

This very same law is the reason no one was charged for the burning down Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma. In the summer of 1919 whites started riots against blacks all throughout the south. History clearly proves that the laws are clearly bias against people of color. These laws were made when colored people were slaves and almost every government official owned slave’s even George Washington. During all of this research, I can only ask one logic question to all of these laws. Who gave these people the power to make such laws and who’s making sure the law makers are fair to the American people? Bill Mason, the father of Quamaine Mason, quoted in an interview, There should be no way in the world that a jury can find you guilty of something and there will be no repercussions".