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Rooted in racism: Origins of qualified immunity for police was oppression of Freedom Riders
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Rooted in racism: the origins of qualified immunity Reuters 12/23/2020
(This article accompanies SPECIAL REPORT-Challenging police violence.while Black USA-POLICE/IMMUNITY-RACE)
By Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell, Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung
Dec 23 (Reuters) - Qualified immunity, entwined with the U.S. history of racism and the struggle against it, emerged during the civil rights movement.
Throughout 1961, groups of activists known as Freedom Riders challenged segregation in interstate public transit stations in the South. The Supreme Court had outlawed such segregation in a ruling the previous year, but local police still arrested hundreds of protesters who descended on the South to enter “whites only” or “colored only” areas of bus and train stations.