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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I read that it was the first case ever where criminal charges were brought against a police officer for failure to act.
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Then you read something that seems wrong to me. Tou Thao was found guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter when he failed to intervene to stop manslaughter. It may be that our wonderful SCOTUS will overturn as it has stated that cops have no duty to protect citizens despite the old "serve and protect" motto plastered everywhere. The question thus is what interests are cops serving and protecting as it is not school children being slaughtered.
A school teacher can lose her profession for failing to notice and report possible child abuse, but a cop is immune to any lawsuit for their failure to act.