In the majority of cases, Reuters found, police and the localities that employ them are largely shielded from having to pay financial settlements to victims or their grieving families by “qualified immunity,” a legal concept developed by the U.S. Supreme Court that gives wide latitude to government employees when they act in the line of duty.
One exception, however, is high-profile cases like those of Michael Brown that gain national attention. These cases are often outliers, resulting in generous settlement offers, and sometimes even criminal charges, before police have any recourse to claiming qualified immunity.MICHAEL BROWN, a black 18-year-old killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
PHILANDO CASTILE, a black man shot and killed during a 2016 traffic stop in a St. Paul, Minnesota, suburb after telling police he had a gun in the vehicle.Criminal charges: A jury acquitted the officer on charges of felony manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm. STEPHON CLARK, an unarmed black man killed by Sacramento, California, police in 2018 after they chased him into his grandmother’s backyard.
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