Officers Nearly Beat Innocent College Student to Death Then Claim Immunity from All Accountability

You probably dont know it, but federal agents are working closely with police where you live. Over the past few decades, joint task forces staffed by both state and federal police have become common. They now number more than one thousand. As a result of these federal, state partnerships, the government often plays what amounts to a shell game that makes it impossible to hold individual officers to account if they violate someones constitutional rights by, for example, engaging in police brutality or other misdeeds. Heres how it works: The tools an individual can use to hold a government officer to account for violating the Constitution depend on whether the officer was acting under state or federal law. But if an officer acts under both state and federal lawas it does when a joint task force is involvedthe question becomes murkier. An officer accused of abusing his federal authority can claim he was actually acting using his statelaw authority, and an