A federal jury in Louisiana on Wednesday acquitted a white state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of a Black motorist despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling the man 18 times with a flashlight.
A federal jury in Louisiana on Wednesday acquitted a white state trooper charged with violating the civil rights of a Black motorist despite body-camera footage that showed the officer pummeling the man 18 times with a flashlight.
I doubt it, since prosecutors generally cannot appeal a verdict of not guilty.
I mean the citizen, you assume the crooked local court is going to do crooked local court shit.
The citizen can’t appeal either. Prosecutors are in charge of a criminal case, not citizens.
There is no prosecutor in civil court.
This wasn’t a civil case. This was a criminal case. Depriving someone of their civil rights is a federal crime. The officer was prosecuted by Brandon Brown.
You take the officer to civil court, win, take that win and use it for a public interest appeal, win be vindicated. The prosecutor doesn’t take part in the next step homie.
Winning a case like this in civil court is extremely difficult. Police always claim qualified immunity, and then the case is nearly always thrown out.
And appeals courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court, tend to side with police whenever they claim qualified immunity.