Anonymous ID: 595e13 Sept. 17, 2026, 11:49 a.m. No.25048038   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Appeals Court Grants Immunity to Texas Cops Who Held Handcuffed Woman Face Down in a Fire Ant Hill

 

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Taylor Rogers didn't show that it was clearly established that it was excessive force to be held down on a pile of fire ants while handcuffed.

 

https://reason.com/2026/09/09/appeals-court-grants-immunity-to-texas-cops-who-held-handcuffed-woman-face-down-in-a-fire-ant-hill/

 

Qualified immunity was created by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1967 case Pierson v. Ray. In Pierson v. Ray, police arrested black and white clergy members who tried to use a segregated bus station waiting room in Mississippi. After the segregation law was struck down as unconstitutional, the clergy sued the officers. The Supreme Court ruled that police officers should not face financial liability if they acted in good faith and with probable cause under a law they believed was valid at the time.

 

The court updated the standard in 1982 (Harlow v. Fitzgerald) to focus on whether an official violated "clearly established law".

 

The court claims unless there is a similar case under similar circumstances where an officer was found to have violated rights by performing the same action, then the law is not "clearly established" and an officer could not be expected to "reasonably know" it was unlawful. In other words, ignorance of the law is an excuse for law enforcement, but not the people.

 

When a plaintiff sues a state or local official (such as a police officer) under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 for violating a right, the official is often granted qualified immunity to stop the lawsuit early and before reaching a jury in direct violation of the plaintiffs 7th amendment right to a jury trial in a federal civil case exceeding $20.

 

Qualified immunity is literally conspiracy against rights and violation of rights under color of law. It is an abomination that should never exist in a free nation. The courts were not only never granted that authority, they were explicitly FORBIDDEN that authority by the 7th amendment to the US Constitution.

Anonymous ID: 595e13 Sept. 17, 2026, 12:01 p.m. No.25048074   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>25048040

>Are you psyoping as an anarchist like antifa?

 

Holding lawless people accountable is not anarchy. When law enforcement and the courts are lawless there is no law and order, only tyranny. Antifa is a controlled opposition group so you can "attach" what they do to those standing against governments lawlessness.

 

>This is funny is it not now. You just been implicated in things is now what happened so we will see they are working on it now likey is all ok.

 

Did that make sense in your head?

 

>Thx again fast food or you going on the run now?

 

I don't run.