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Mass State Senate With No Black People Voted To End Qualified Immunity For Cops While You Were Sleeping And Without Public Input, Banned Schools From Identifying Gang Members

 

Activists and politicians been been pushing to end “qualified immunity” for police officers ever since George Floyd was killed in May. It’s a hot buzzword because it sounds like qualified immunity protects cops who do bad things, but that’s not what it does at all. Derek Chauvin is in jail and charged with murder despite having qualified immunity. All it really does is protect cops from being sued civilly.

Qualified immunity grants government officials performing discretionary functions immunity from civil suits unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated “clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known

Eliminating qualified immunity won’t solve any problems, and it certainly won’t help black people. Derek Chauvin won’t have any money or assets left when his trial is over. And if he did, why should the family of George Floyd be allowed to seize property from his soon to be ex-wife for a crime she didn’t commit?

The bar for civil lawsuits is much lower than criminal, as it only requires a 51% chance of guilt. Cops like Darren Wilson, who a grand jury determined did nothing wrong, could be sued for a crime they didn’t commit. If you get rid of qualified immunity then cops aren’t going to risk everything they have in order to do their job. If a cop injures someone while they are resisting arrest that cop could be sued civilly and lose everything.

I’ve personally been sued in over a dozen frivolous lawsuits, all of which were eventually thrown out. But it takes years to litigate and costs upwards of hundred of thousands of dollars to get these lawsuits thrown out. If I had qualified immunity they would’ve been thrown out on the spot. Now picture how often cops would be sued by every person who felt like they were wronged by the police.

Qualified immunity protects all public servants. Eliminating it would make it easier for teachers to be sued if a parent felt like their child didn’t get a fair grade on a project. This has happened and the Supreme Court has ruled on this, using qualified immunity to protect the educators.

In 1975, in Wood v. Strickland, the Supreme Court recognized qualified immunity under Section 1983 for a school board member who was sued over the expulsion of three students.

Any legislator who wants to get rid of qualified immunity is voting to:

  • Eliminate collective bargaining rights for public sector unions
  • Make police afraid to do their job, and in turn make our streets less safe
  • Deter people from pursuing jobs in public service
  • Tie up our courts with frivolous lawsuits

Last night while you were sleeping the Massachusetts State Senate voted 30-7 to end qualified immunity as part of their “police reform” agenda. There was no public hearing for citizens and police officers to provide input as there always are with major bills like this. They did it without making headlines because they know that the more that comes out about qualified immunity the more that people will realize how important it is, and they’ll contact their elected leaders to let them know. Here’s how they voted:

The only people worse than the 30 democrats who voted yes are the two republicans (Tarr, Oconnor) and one democrat (DiZoglio) who voted present. At least those who voted no weren’t afraid to put their name on it.

Of the 40 Senators in this state, 36 are democrats and 4 are republicans. Sadly the democratic party is embracing a bill that seeks to destroy public sector unions, undoing over 100 years of progressive reforms brought by organized labor.

The 7 Senators who voted against this should all be commended, especially the 5 democrats (Anne Gobi, Nick Collins, Michael Moore, John Velis, and Michael Rush) who went against their own party and did the right thing. Dean Tran (Fitchburg) and Ryan Fattman (Sutton) both gave impassioned speeches in defense of law enforcement as well.

Tran kicked off the Senate’s debate by delivering a scathing indictment of the process used to develop the bill, which he said was crafted by Democratic leaders without input from the public or key interest groups, including minority law enforcement officers. The Fitchburg Republican, who is Vietnamese, said he has experienced “the kind of hatred and discrimination that one can only imagine or experience in their nightmares.” He called the bill “ill conceived and politically driven” and asked his mostly white colleagues, “What do you know about racial injustice and inequality?”

“The bill’s main goal and objective is to attack and discredit law enforcement,” Tran said.

Thank you Senator Tran for saying what so many of us are thinking. Of the 36 democratic State Senators in Boston, not one of them is black. Sonia Chang-Diaz and Tran are the only two members of the body who can be considered people of color. Yet here are these uppity white folks from wealthy communities, who represent wealthy white people who intentionally moved away from communities of color, ignoring minorities and making their communities less safe. The understanding that people like Jamie Eldridge, Karen Spilka, and Julian Cyr have of racial issues comes from reading the Huffington Post and following Shaun King on Twitter.

Senator Fattman always responds when I contact him with a concern, and he killed it with a speech he gave over the weekend.

The almost entirely white State Senate ignored the concerns of black police officers as well.

“Not only am I a police officer, I am a black man and I am probably better able to speak to concerns of people of color than Senator (William) Brownsberger,” said Eddy Chrispin, president of Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers.

I contacted Senator Brownsberger in May to see if he would condemn or say anything about Lt. Governor Karyn Polito defying her own lockdown order by attending a big party at her brother’s house in Shrewsbury. He told me he was disappointed that she did this, but said that he would respond by doing “most likely, nothing,” because he doesn’t like to get in the “business of calling out the weaknesses and mistakes of others.”

Will Brownsberger doesn’t speak out against public officials who do something wrong, unless of course they’re cops. Then they can be sued for doing their jobs. He believes in holding cops “accountable” to kangaroo civil courts, but not Karyn Polito. Violating your own lockdown orders is just a “weakness” and a “mistake.”

Senator Brownsberger lives in Mitt Romney’s “hometown” of Belmont, and represents a constituency that is overwhelmingly wealthy and white. He’ll remain safe, but he just made the streets a lot more dangerous for black and impoverished people in urban areas where crime rates are higher.

And just for kickers they also added an amendment to the bill that bans schools from collaborating with law enforcement to identify students who are known gang members.

Sen. Patricia Jehlen’s amendment blocking schools from sharing with law enforcement any information about a student’s immigration status, nation of origin, ethnicity, religion and known or suspected gang affiliations passed on a 27-12 vote.

How does preventing schools and police from sharing information about gang members make schools more safe? Oh right, it doesn’t. It makes students and teachers more susceptible from violence. This isn’t shocking coming from Senator Patricia Jehlen though. We wrote about her two years ago when she proposed a bill that would ban students from being arrested for anything while in school. This came after a drug dealing gang banging 15 year old from Woburn was arrested for yelling “fuck science” and throwing his books at his teacher.

The bottom line is that ending qualified immunity will affect all of us, and these idiots are just too short sighted and caught up in the moment to realize that. They’re blinded in their quest for “justice” for George Floyd, and they idiotically think this will help. It won’t. Firefighters will be afraid to run into buildings since they can now be sued if they don’t save the people inside. Police chiefs will order directives for cops not to pull anyone over, since they can be sued for discrimination. Teachers will be afraid to fail any students, and principals will be afraid to hold any students back, since they can be sued by parents for preventing their kids from graduating.

The bill must now get through the 160 member House of Representatives before Governor Baker decides whether to veto or sign it. As much as I hate Baker, I have faith he will veto any bill that gets to his desk. In the meantime, we need to make sure it doesn’t get that far. Here is a list of the 160 State Reps. Take a minute to find out who your elected leader is and send them an email urging them to vote no on any bill that eliminated qualified immunity.

 

 

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59 Comment(s)
  • Cops are losers
    July 16, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    Look at all the pissed off criminal cops mad that they’re not gonna be allowed to be the pigs we all know they are. The only good cop is a cop who went through years of training to be a cop, not 6 months. As they say, 2 years of training to cut hair, 6 months to be a criminal cop.

    The people deserve far better. The system needs a complete overhaul, tear it down and start fresh.

    First requirement of the new system they put in place would be to not hire ex military. All these bozos have PTSD, and if you have PTSD that should automatically disqualify you from being a cop.

    It’s not that hard to fix the corrupt system we have, just hire better people, prosecute the criminals, and make them personally liable for their crimes, rather than getting bailed out by the tax payer.

    Sadly the criminal cops that frequent this page don’t want better for the system, they want to continue to terrorize the citizens of the United States.

  • Jim
    July 15, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    35 of 36 D are white and Chang Diaz grew up in the ghettos of Newton /s

    GOP senator Tran’s family were refugees OTOH.

  • Steve in Peabody
    July 15, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Senator Tran is Vietemese . He knows what communism can do to a country. The Vietemese are hard working people and they don’t want their business destroyed and tax on stupid social justice issues. I commend him for having a big set of balls.

  • bb324
    July 15, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    When do we get to sue politicians, for pretending to have any brains or guts.

  • don
    July 15, 2020 at 9:22 am

    if they pass it then it wont just stop at the police. it will also come after their own jobs as senators as well. thats when they will trash the bill.

  • NEwarlord
    July 14, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    Yesss bit by bit, break down civilized society. Come my friends, my army is growing. I want you to join the party. Always. Be. Preppin.

  • tousmp
    Sled Ted
    July 14, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    They know not what they do. Morons just see the word immunity. Like it gives police carte Blanche to do whatever they want. It’s not protection from committing crime. It’s for being sued personally for something that occurs while executing their duty within certain parameters. Making a split second decision, in chaos, knowing you’ll be MMQB’d to death is bad enough. Now try it without this protection having to weigh being sued personally. Good luck recruiting anyone with half a brain now. Fucking assholes don’t have a clue.

  • Chris Tranos
    July 14, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    Bruce Tarr is a weak midget. I live in Rockport, I know

  • Feorge Gloyed
    July 14, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    So they vote to get rid of public unions? What about the high paying union jobs in that black jobs program called the MBTA?

  • Jark
    July 14, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    This is outragenous! Cops should be allowed to break the law and claim ignorance and face no consequences! WTF is going on? They really want cops to obey the law and face the same consequences any other criminal would face if they broke the law?

    What is the world coming to?

    • All the Lonely Sheeple
      July 15, 2020 at 12:46 am

      You would have certainly benefited from teachers being afraid to fail their students.

  • Charlie Parker, MD, FACS, MBA
    July 14, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    I tried to increase the gas tax so everyone would have to wait a half hour or so to hop on a shitty bus or glitchy Chinese trolley. That didn’t work so I tried to impose a gas fee so my union brothers at the T could have some income from former car drivers, but the fucking governors voted against me dammit. I never say that my state has the fourth highest death rate and fourth highest unemployment rate in the country and have instructed all the news people to just sing about how stuff is just going in the right direction now, and we’re much better than Florida… except for our really high death rate which was almost entirely due to mismanagement of state facilities. That’s ok . I fired all those responsible so that’s over. But I just found out there’s no term limit for governor and I will become a permanent block head here in the state house.

  • Leo Varadkar is gay
    July 14, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    Thank God, our last kid has left high school.
    The police will just cruise around town, seeing no crime. Only responding to calls from the dispatcher and then responding slowly.
    It will be like the old joke about New York’s Cops in the seventies.
    How they managed to only work for 2 hours in a 8 hour shift.

  • I see a pattern here, anti-fascists are fascist, anti-racists are racist, BLM don't care about all black lives.
    July 14, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    Other then being the excuse, this has nothing to do with George Floyd. They’ve hijacked and misrepresented the circumstances surrounding the death of a violent drug addict to justify what some lunatics have always wanted to do.

    Floyd was black, Chauvin is white. No evidence of racism in the death.

    Self-proclaimed anti-racists fail to realize that they are promoting much more race based hate than are supposedly fighting.

    • Micheál Martin
      July 15, 2020 at 12:43 pm

      I cared once about black lives. I stopped when I realized that even black people don’t care about other black murder victims unless a cop is evolved.

  • The Sky is Falling
    July 14, 2020 at 4:38 pm

    C’mon man does it really matter? I guess to pussies like you who make a big deal out of nothing it does get your panties in a bunch but this isn’t going to change a thing.
    When was the last time a Boston cop was in the news for choking out a coon? I’ll tell you when, never because it doesn’t ever happen.
    Compared to the rest of the country Massachusetts has like zero coons and most of the ones we have are seasonal. They come in the warm weather to sign up for welfare, bang a cpl. baby mama’s and buy a pitbull. As soon as summer’s over they dump the baby mama abandon the newborn and the pitbull and head back to warmer climates before winter.
    The small amount of coons that are year rounders don’t dare shooting cops or whites they just shoot each other.

    • The Sky is Falling
      July 14, 2020 at 7:08 pm

      Thanks for the thumbs down you bunch of fucking queers it proves your stupidity.
      Even the Title of this story is straight out of a crazy BLM zombies line of thinking.
      A Mass State Senate with no Blacks…… guess what you fucking cuck Massachusetts is like 85% white, 8% black and the rest are chinks and spics. That means he senators represent the majority of the residents. How many coons do you need to have in the senate? Will 8, 10, half fulfill your coon loving agenda? Fuck off and read a History or Civics book.

      • Your IQ is still falling
        July 14, 2020 at 7:27 pm

        “Thanks for thumbs down” Awe….you poor little cuck snowflake! Your feelings got hurt over a thumbs down! You faggot bitch!!!

        Let me explain why you are wrong and totally retarded. This bill will make any Officer eligible for a lawsuit regardless of intention.

        I’ll even do you a favor because I know how retarded and sensitive you’re.

        I.E…..Person X, (who is white and a cuck like you) had a heart attack. Then, a cop shows up and performs CPR. In the process of CPR person X gets a cracked rib.

        Now, person X can legally and lawfully file a civil lawsuit againt the officer for saving his life.

        Do you see how stupid that is or do you need me to translate it into more retard for you?

        • The Sky is Falling
          July 14, 2020 at 8:51 pm

          If you would take that cock out of your ass for five fucking minutes and do some reading you would understand that that’s not what the bill means at all.

    • You’re IQ has fallen
      July 14, 2020 at 7:19 pm

      and you’re intelligent as coo you fucking, retarded moron.

  • Polticians are Poison
    July 14, 2020 at 4:16 pm

    I notice that these gutless pandering politicians didn’t vote to eliminate Legislative Immunity. They can’t be sued for things they say in a floor debate or a hearing on a bill, or the consequences of a law that they file or vote for.

    Why not? These politicians can hurt every single citizen with a vote. Yet, they refuse to make themselves accountable. I smell a ballot question coming on this.

    Why do we have a full time legislature with pensions, perks, per diems etc anyway?

    • Frank
      July 14, 2020 at 5:37 pm

      You my friend are spot on we need a ballot question for rescinding the politicians immunity, turtle get this going you have the platform to do it

      • realestatepup
        July 14, 2020 at 7:35 pm

        I totally agree. They sit in their protected enclaves affecting the lives of all citizens with a “Yay” or “Nay” without really thinking about the consequences of what they do.
        And if they think that the sue-happy residents of MA will not find a way to apply this to other state government employees they are mentally deficient.
        Show me an attorney that couldn’t use this to sue the pants off any teacher, health enforcement officer, judge, or fire fighter than this is an attorney not worth the degree they have hanging on a wall.
        Any time a police officer is involved in ANYTHING that some disgruntled person then thinks they have been “harmed” then it’s going to be guilt by association. Civil lawsuits have such a low threshold, and relying on a “jury of your peers” to protect you is wishful thinking at best.
        The law of unintended consequences is quite staggering here. If the house passes this turd and Charlie doesn’t veto it, then this is going to open a shit storm can of worms like nothing we have ever seen.
        First police that can retire, will. Others who are perhaps auxiliary or part time are just going to say forget this and leave. The rest will be so terrified of losing everything they will just do nothing and crime will skyrocket everywhere.
        You think criminals will not take advantage of this? Get real. This is a nightmare in the making.

  • george costanza
    The angry taint
    July 14, 2020 at 4:00 pm

    To quote Sam Elliot in When we were soldiers, “Gentlemen prepare to defend yourselves”. It will spill into the suburbs and everyone is going to have to pick a side.

    • Roderic O’Gorman loves pedo's
      July 14, 2020 at 7:48 pm

      Very low Diversity Brookline will be especially screwed, surrounded by Boston on 3 sides. That’s a long perimeter to defend.

  • Ratchet Rex is PISSED
    July 14, 2020 at 2:39 pm

    I knew the second I heard about this you would for sure do a blog.

    This is the most disgusting bill ever. If this happens, this could cause detrimental damage to the city of Brockton where i reside.

    Get your typing fingers ready EVERYONE. Reach out to your REP.

    Here are 2 scenarios that will happen if this goes into affect-

    1. Domestic violence calls- let’s say Jim beats Mary, cops come and he is arrested only to be bailed out and goes back to Mary and beats her again. That 2nd time the cops can’t arrest again cause it hasn’t been 24 hrs.

    2. Mary’s 1 year old is not breathing. First to arrive is a cop. He can’t perform CPR to save the 1 year olds life either for fear of a civil lawsuit if he breaks a rib of the 1 year old. Which if CPR IS done correctly, a broken rib almost always happens.

    This bill doesn’t show me HOW the fuck this helps black fucking lives. Oh and one more point- #12 of the bill is to rid the no knock warrant and they have to knock and wait 15 seconds before entering… This exact thing got that Breona Lewis girl shot. They knocked, gave her dirtbag bf enough time to grab his gun and fire at police. They then returned for and killed her.

  • Joe
    July 14, 2020 at 2:14 pm

    It’s time to
    Get physical

  • bill fleming
    toby
    July 14, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    Fools on a hill passed a law that will kill hundreds of drug addicts because police,fire and EMT’S will no longer administer narcan for fear of being sued.

    • So there was one good point in the bill
      July 14, 2020 at 4:28 pm

      To paraphrase Unkle Turtleboy: ‘Save people who voluntarily inject Poison into their Veins?’ No

  • Long Dong Silver
    July 14, 2020 at 1:19 pm

    You can all claim, or believe, that ending (or “modifying”) qualified immunity won’t impact safety or police response to issues. You are wrong.

    Dont be crying for the police in a year or two if this moves forward when there are running gun battles in the streets, kids are being killed in large numbers and even your white suburbs have “unexpected” surges in crime and overdoses.

    A cop’s life, livelihood, freedom and family should matter more than a criminal who has turned his back on polite society and the social contract.

    • Ivan the Terrible
      July 14, 2020 at 1:34 pm

      Dont be crying for the police in a year or two if this moves forward when there are running gun battles in the streets, kids are being killed in large numbers and even your white suburbs have “unexpected” surges in crime and overdoses.

      —-

      How maudlin. Wipe your chin.

    • randiguy2006
      LOLz
      July 14, 2020 at 2:19 pm

      “Police response” is funny.

      They show up after something happens and write a report. Big whoop.

      • Aren't the anti police trolls that make cocky, apples and oranges remarks so clever? I wonder how often you resort to calling all reasonable people such original names, like bootlickers?
        July 14, 2020 at 5:15 pm

        Spoken like some suburban asshole who left his car unlocked and wants the police to launch a manhunt for the kid that stole his cheap sunglasses.

        In addition to not knowing anything about racism the defunders also have no idea how much police do. I see them take a report and leave, that must be all cops do 24 hours a day. I hear one found a noose in MAGA Country, that must happen every day to black people.

        Perfectly reasonable, for a generation that thinks research is skimming thru the first 2 or 3 Google results.

      • Shirley
        July 14, 2020 at 5:18 pm

        Lolz? Surely anyone that writes Lolz has a man-bun, which is an oxy-moron.

  • Gunnery Sgt
    July 14, 2020 at 1:14 pm

    All of these Dems are horrible people. They haven’t done anything for the working class in decades. I will never vote for a dem the rest of my
    Life. They just made the streets more dangerous. Everyone needs to buy guns and ammo now

  • Captain Trips
    Captain Trips
    July 14, 2020 at 12:53 pm

    The ban on Identifying gang members should come with the provision that the gang members need to move in with the politicians who voted yes on it.

  • murdochpatsymcreynolds
    Old Tom Morris
    July 14, 2020 at 12:35 pm

    Turtleboy if this is true; the “democratic party is embracing a bill that seeks to destroy public sector unions” and would “Eliminate collective bargaining rights for public sector unions.” Then bring it on! But sadly I think Uncle T. is being hyperbolic. 🙁

  • Disgusted
    July 14, 2020 at 12:31 pm

    I’m so disappointed in Patrick OcConnor. He lives in and Represents a Town where a Police Officer was Murdered in cold blood. You fucked up big time Pat, you will get voted out. I can only imagine that Mayor Hedlund hates you now. The Mayor has been your biggest supporter. Pat you short, slight,millennial CUCK.

  • Frank
    July 14, 2020 at 12:29 pm

    We have a republican governor so he won’t sign it right?

  • Gropey Baker
    July 14, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    Hey dad, does this mean I can molest more women and get away with it

  • The Spic Tormentor
    Spic Tormentor
    July 14, 2020 at 12:18 pm

    Career criminal and crackhead, George Floyd gets sent to henny heaven by a cop in MN.

    Positives: one less nog, that tranny cunt got killed on the highway last week.

    Negatives: Plymouth plantation changes it’s name, TV and movies now flooded with coons, good cops losing protection

    • The police officer probably did not kill Floyd
      July 14, 2020 at 12:45 pm

      According to the official toxicology report, George Floyd had three times the lethal level of fentanyl in his system when he died and tested positive for other illegal drugs. Floyd said he was having trouble breathing before he was on the ground. The eventual trial of the police officer will be interesting. Paul Craig Roberts has written extensively about this.

      • The Spic Tormentor
        Spic Tormentor
        July 14, 2020 at 12:51 pm

        The entire thing was on video. If you think he magically OD’d at the exact time he was getting choked out then you’re a special breed of ‘tarded

        • Self-education is too difficult
          July 14, 2020 at 4:18 pm

          ST, a suggestion. When someone references a source for their position, maybe consider at least reviewing it before rejecting it. My understanding is we can’t post links in the comments, otherwise I would have provided them. Is looking up Paul Craig Roberts’s website too difficult? Is reading the official toxicology report too difficult?

          • The Spic Tormentor
            Spic Tormentor
            July 14, 2020 at 5:57 pm

            Yes, self education is done best by starting with reading comments on internet blogs. If you actually think this nog did not die because he had a knee on his neck for almost 10 minutes then I have a multi level marketing opportunity I would like to discuss with you.

            I’m sure he had 3x the amount of a lethal dose of fenty fun dip in his system but I’m also sure he has built up a tolerance over the years of being a waste of life.

  • Captain Trips
    Captain Trips
    July 14, 2020 at 12:02 pm

    I didn’t know Bruce Jenner had a wigger for a son!

  • hartf811
    Georgy Malenkov
    July 14, 2020 at 11:58 am

    There is nothing sadder than white pandering for generational guilt over something that none of them had a hand in doing.
    They didn’t own slaves
    They didn’t lynch anybody
    They didn’t chase kneegrows with snarling dogs.
    They paid their taxes to finance The War on Poverty, welfare, baby mommas, EBT.
    What’s next?
    A tax on wearing cotton? On Fried Chicken! A White’s only tax on watching the NBA?
    Throwing out all of the Ain’t Jemima, Mrs, Butterworths, Uncle Bens, Cream Of Wheat?
    Eddie Murphy movies, Blazing Saddles, a use tax on black lingo?
    By taxing white people over every intersection point with blacks?
    If that happens, Blacks 2020 will be the new dinosaurs

  • Not believable
    July 14, 2020 at 11:41 am

    I thought I heard Jeff Kuhner say this morning that he expects Baker to sign the bill if it passes the House.

  • White?
    July 14, 2020 at 11:34 am

    What does it matter them being white?

    • Observer X
      Awestalot
      July 14, 2020 at 12:38 pm

      Hopefully he has some balls and does the right thing.

  • randiguy2006
    DOH!
    July 14, 2020 at 11:27 am

    Yeah, it’s crazy.

    Why would white legislators would want to hold bad cops accountable.

  • randiguy2006
    Huh?
    July 14, 2020 at 11:22 am

    “why should the family of George Floyd be allowed to seize property from his soon to be ex-wife for a crime she didn’t commit?”

    Why would any wife have to suffer for her husband’s crime? Why do you want bad cops to be in a special protected category?

    • Geez Louise
      July 14, 2020 at 7:20 pm

      I’ll explain it to you because it seems like you can’t follow simple logic. Right now a cop can’t be sued personally (the city, town or state who employs him can). If the bill passes, then he can be sued personally. If he/she is married, and they own a house, car, etc. together, then that is fair game in a lawsuit. So the spouse can lose everything even if though they weren’t involved in the incident that the person is suing over. Get it? If you don’t, you’re a bigger moron than we all thought.

  • Ghost of London Proper
    July 14, 2020 at 11:22 am

    Massachusetts is going to BURN!

  • kingsraisins
    July 14, 2020 at 11:07 am

    The mob mentality is getting out of hand. While I believe this gets killed before it even gets to Baker’s desk, it sends a horrible message to all of our excellent local officers. An absolute shame and embarrassment. Thank you Senator Fattman for actually having the balls to stand up to the mob on behalf of the silent, but increasingly aggravated, majority.

  • Tryna Eatt
    July 14, 2020 at 11:05 am

    Was that white boy with knuckle tats the 15-year old Woburn gangbanger? There are 15-year old white boy gangbangers with knuckle tats in Woburn? What a shithole. And what a stupid bitch of a mom to let her 15-year old act like that and then sit beside him defending him.

  • Billy Bootlicker
    July 14, 2020 at 11:04 am

    “Eliminating qualified immunity won’t solve any problems”

    You’re full of shit here, bud, and you know you are, because of the way you formed your argument: You had to broaden your defense of it out to “public servants,” rather than simply police. And stop with that “public servant” bullshit.

    Cops who actually follow procedure and do the right thing will be just fine. Cops who think rules don’t apply to them won’t get the kind of protection from QI that allows them to think the rules don’t apply to them in the first place. Oh, the horror.

    Voting “yeah” or “nay” here only indicates whether you’re up for running the wrath of the public sector unions during the next election cycle. And you can take your public sector unions and stuff them up your ass sideways.

    • Billy Sucks Boot Cock
      July 14, 2020 at 11:58 am

      Getting rid of QI does mot protect cops who dontue right thing tou stupid commie terrorist.

      • Look at the Short Bus Escapee
        July 14, 2020 at 12:03 pm

        Funniest not meant to be funny post around here in awhile. What alternative high school program did you fail out of, slugger?

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