Saturday, December 22, 2018

On You're Own While Getting Shot At

New York Times (12/18/2018)
Officers Had No Duty to Protect Students in Parkland Massacre, Judge Rules
"Police officers, in fact, generally are not under any legal obligation to protect citizens who are not in their custody... “Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law. “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.”"

Does the same thing apply to another cop or the judge being shot at?

Look if all they're going to do is write a report up I could hire stenographers for a whole lot less.



Either I'm living in another universe or severely laboring under a misapprehension of how I thought things were suppose to work.

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