Midwest, Police Accountability Project
Qualified immunity: A get out of court free card for abusive police
Police officers almost always avoid legal liability for abusing citizens because of the doctrine of qualified immunity. The doctrine.
Opinion
Libel decision shut down segregationists clinging to Jim Crow
To understand why New York Times v. Sullivan is one of the great First Amendment victories of the past.
Opinion
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s unconstitutional attack on the press
From afar, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s attempt to prosecute a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter looks like the folly of.
Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project
Wandering cops shuffle between departments, abuse citizens
Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his dad. The Independence, Ohio, police department hired him but.
Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project
Two St. Louis police killings similar to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor deaths
ST. LOUIS — Five years before George Floyd died of “asphyxia-restraint” on a Minneapolis street, 27-year-old Nicholas Gilbert died.
