Qualified Immunity
This cluster revolves around discussions of qualified immunity, a U.S. legal doctrine protecting government officials like police from civil lawsuits for rights violations, including explanations, criticisms, examples, and calls for reform or abolition.
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What you're thinking of is "qualified immunity" and that protects individuals--govermenment offcials--from being sued when carrying out duties related to their jobs.See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
Related Wiki page on Qualified Immunity:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
Most likely you can't because of "qualified immunity" wherein government officials can violate rights of people and face no consequences.
Don’t those officers still have qualified immunity?
Qualified immunity is qualified, not absolute.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity"Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine in United States federal law that shields government officials from being sued for discretionary actions performed within their official capacity, unless their actions violated "clearly established" federal law or constitutiona
An excellent Qualified Immunity explainer:https://theappeal.org/qualified-immunity-explained/
Qualified immunity does not protect government employees who break the law. There are laws/rulings that specifically disqualify them from using qualified immunity as a defense. The problem is prosecutors, judges, and juries who allow government employees to commit illegal actions with no consequences. This is furthered by citizens who pay no attention and let these people stay in power.
The SCOTUS ruling that created qualified immunity only applies to government workers such as police and politicians, so the answer to your question would be "none".
I think your comment is the only one here mentioning qualified immunity. This is definitely another qualified immunity case disguised as a free speech case, I'd expect the outcome to be similar on that alone. Until qualified immunity for police is done away with, police essentially have carte-blanche to do what they want without consequence (barring extraordinary incidents of violence).
You can't. "Qualified Immunity".It would be nice, of course, if a good Qualified Immunity case hit our current SCOTUS. They may rule differently than past courts, if they're as principled as they purport to be.