Committee stops bill ending qualified immunity
BATON ROUGE —A House committee rejected a bill Wednesday that would have prohibited police officers from receiving immunity in civil cases involving abuse allegations.
BATON ROUGE —A House committee rejected a bill Wednesday that would have prohibited police officers from receiving immunity in civil cases involving abuse allegations.
A Louisiana House of Representatives committee on Thursday agreed to create a task force that would review the training, tactics and selection of law enforcement officers.
When Prohibition became the law of the land, it was not very popular in south Louisiana.
Editor's Note: This story is the second in a series about the civil rights-era Deacons for Defense and Justice.
BATON ROUGE--A House committee rejected a bill Wednesday that would have prohibited police officers from receiving immunity in civil cases involving abuse allegations.
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