The Dallas Police Department is shocked tonight as DPD loses Qualified Immunity in the case involving the death of Tony Timpa.
On Wednesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled that Dallas police officers violated a mentally ill man’s constitutional rights when they pinned him to the ground for fourteen minutes and that they might be liable for his death.
DPD Loses Qualified Immunity: Start Of Trend?
It is unclear if the Timpa decision will lead to others.
In the June 2020 George Floyd protests, Dallas officers injured numerous protestors leading to an After Action Report with a number of excuses, but no blame.
In addition to assaulting protestors, several bystanders were injured also.
Dallas Police have not stopped with the George Floyd protests. More recently a man was beaten by officer Melvin Williams in Deep Ellum, but their history of assaults against citizens is not new.
In the past year alone a DPD officer has been arrested for Family Violence Assault and another for sexual assault of a child. DPD sources are still not speaking about the family detained in their own home without cause.