another thin blue line story showing you how you aren't being served or protected;


Coffee County, GA — As TFTP reported, the family of an innocent 10-year-old boy filed a $2 million lawsuit on behalf of their son after he was shot by a trigger happy Georgia cop. The boy, Dakota Corbitt had his knee blown apart while officer Michael Vickers was attempting to kill his dog. Now, however, thanks to a system that is set up to protect abusive government employees, Vickers was granted “qualified immunity” and the federal appeals court threw out the family’s lawsuit. Instead of having to face the lawsuit for excessive force — for shooting a 10-year-old boy while trying to kill his non-aggressive dog — Coffee County Deputy Sheriff Michael Vickers was entitled to “qualified immunity” for his actions and cannot be sued in federal court, the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week, according to Forbes. 
The court ruled that because they couldn’t find “a materially similar case,” that Vickers “intentionally firing at the dog and unintentionally shooting [the 10-year-old] did not violate any clearly established Fourth Amendment rights.”
However, as CATO points out, given the shockingly reckless nature of Vickers’ actions here, it is of course unsurprising that no prior case involving precisely this sort of misconduct. The majority’s analysis vindicates the stinging criticism of Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett, who recently stated in another case that “[t]o some observers, qualified immunity smacks of unqualified impunity, letting public officials duck consequences for bad behavior—no matter how palpably unreasonable—as long as they were the first to behave badly.”.............https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-shoots-boy-instead-dog/