i know you'll be feeling much safer after reading about this police encounter;

 Carlsbad, NM — On March 21, 2020, 25-year-old Charles “Gage” Lorentz was shot and killed by a National Park Ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park after he was pulled over for allegedly speeding on a dirt road. Body-camera footage of the incident was released last year showing that Lorentz was unarmed and did not do anything to provoke the force used by National Park Ranger Robert Mitchell. He was merely dancing.

Now, Lorentz’ mother is speaking out and telling her story of how the system is set up to prevent her from ever getting justice.

“I call this murder. What I would soon find out, though – as many families who lost loved ones at the hands of the police in this country have – is that the Department of Justice does not,” Kimberly Beck, Lorentz’ mother said in an op-ed this week. The federal officer who murdered Lorentz was not fired nor prosecuted. He was granted qualified immunity instead.

For those who may be unaware, the Supreme Court created qualified immunity in 1982. With that novel invention, the court granted all government officials immunity for violating constitutional and civil rights unless the victims of those violations can show that the rights were “clearly established.”

The court held in Harlow v. Fitzgerald that government actors are entitled to this immunity due to the “need to protect officials who are required to exercise discretion and the related public interest in encouraging the vigorous exercise of official authority.”

“Government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”.........read and watch more.......