@raphjd said in Lie in Court or Be Fired! - Crazy Qualified Immunity Case:
@bi4smooth
State and local level employees only have Qualified Immunity, while federal employees have Absolute Immunity.
Judges, at any level, also have Absolute Immunity.
In the UK, every government employee, regardless of the level of gov they work for, has Absolute Immunity. I forget the legal term they actually use, but due to the influence of the US, everyone commonly calls it Absolute Immunity.
The idea of some level of immunity for police & Government officials - in so far as, they shouldn't be held liable for an act they didn't KNOW was illegal - is fine. What's been lost is the common sense ... the litmus test should not be "is there case law," as that means it has to be an exact repeat of the earlier event.
Think: "No, this ISN'T the same as the George Floyd case, your honor - because I didn't use my KNEE to choke him to death, I used my ELBOW! No one has ever killed killed a suspect in custody with their elbow before, so I get IMMUNITY! I didn't know you couldn't kill them - WITH YOUR ELBOW! I thought it was just with your knee! My bad! Can I go back to work now? I want to see if killing suspects in custody with an ARTIFICIAL knee is illegal, too..."