Qualifying the Debate Over Qualified Immunity | Opinion James R. Copland
, Senior fellow and director of legal policy, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research On 4/28/21 at 11:00 AM EDT
Last week, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) suggested he was seeking a compromise designed to unstick bipartisan negotiations over federal police reform. Scott s proposal relates to qualified immunity, a legal doctrine cabining federal liability against individuals, including police officers, acting under color of state law. Both progressive and libertarian policy advocates have been pushing to abolish this doctrine, but to date, congressional partisans have broadlysplit on the issue.
My colleague Rafael Mangual and I have argued that Congress
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Police in Ngororero District, on Friday March 12, impounded a vehicle–Toyota Land Cruiser plate number RAC 251G–in Ndaro Sector loaded with 630kgs of smuggled coltan and cassiterite minerals.
Two people, who were on board the vehicle; the driver identified as Silver Murekeyimana, 31, and one Alexis Ngaboyishema, 49, the suspected rightful owner of the minerals, were arrested in the process.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Bonaventure Twizere Karekezi, the Police spokesperson for the Western region, said the smugglers were arrested following a tip-off from residents.
“At around 6pm, Police in Ndaro Sector received information that Ngaboyishema, a suspected illegal mineral dealer, was loading minerals in the vehicle Toyota Land Cruiser plate number RAC 251G. An operation was planned and the vehicle was intercepted shortly after in Gasave Village, Bijyojyo Cell transporting 630kgs of coltan and cassiterite,” CIP Karekezi explai
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About 5,255 prisoners have been set free from Burundi Prison facilities under a Presidential pardon.
President Evariste Ndayishimiye on March 5, 2021, decreed a pardon for 5,255 prisoners but this excluded political prisoners.
“Benefit from the total remission of custodial sentences, prisoners condemned definitively to sentences less than or equal to five years for all offenses”, decreed President Ndayishimiye.
However, the exception is made for crimes like genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, armed robbery, illegal possession of firearms, participation in armed gangs, attack on the internal and/or external security of the State, mercenarism, terrorism and bioterrorism, intentional homicide, rape, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment as well as human trafficking.
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