From: Freedom In Our Time
by Will Grigg
The United States Constitution, as Seattle police officers pretend to
understand it, extends to police an unqualified right to the
discretionary use of aggressive force, and prohibits “second-guessing”
by those who are not members of the State’s coercive caste.
Inhibiting the exercise of that entitlement, the officers claim in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Justice Department and the City of Seattle, would be a “violation of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.”
In 2012, after a Justice Department investigation concluded that
Seattle police officers routinely use unnecessary force, the City of
Seattle implemented a new use-of-force policy and agreed to the creation
of an independent police monitor. The current lawsuit, which was filed
on behalf of more than 100 Seattle cops, complains that those trivial
and inadequate restrictions created “vaguely defined, newly protected
classes of suspects” and violate the officers’ supposed “right not to be
required to take unnecessary risks.”
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