it was in 1871 that the united states congress passed what was known as the kkk act where they could connect monetarily against government issues for violating their constitutional rights and committing violence against them. >> right and. >> and then it was in 1967, reverend al in united states supreme court and the freedom ride, the segregation case of all things, rendered qualified immunity to be able to oppose this protection that they gave to black people to hold those government officers who brutalized them accountable. >> right. >> and made it baseless. and so it's so ironic when we