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The qualified immunity we have today came from a ruling in the late 1960s, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement which also spawned a lot of other laws that gave the police more powers. So unless we think the US was absurd in the 60s, it's an empty statement to say that it will lead to absurd results.

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If you weren't a white man, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was pretty absurd in the 1960s.

Also conspicuous that QI was introduced as a concept around the time police were being told they couldn't knock non-white heads in with impunity anymore.

> Stripping cops - and only cops - of QI will lead to absurd legal results. (emphasis mine)

Followed by a 569-word hypothetical, which is then in turn followed by descriptions of other, narrowly-defined and unrelated types of immunity that have no bearing on the topic at hand.

It’s an interesting point if a person doesn’t know what qualified immunity as it is applied in non-hypothetical situations, today is.