Above the Law

• A police officer kills a twelve-year-old boy. It’s caught on video. The officer gets off. • A police officer strangles a man selling cigarettes. It’s caught on video. The officer gets off. • A police officer shoots a man in his car. It’s live-streamed. The officer gets off. It happens over and over again. The culprit here, alongside the cops, is Qualified Immunity (QI), a legal principle which Reuters describes as “a nearly failsafe tool to let police brutality go unpunished and deny victims t