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The qualified immunity doctrine originated in a 1967 case involving police who arrested civil rights clergy for using a segregated bus station waiting room, with the Court later striking down the segregation law as unconstitutional.
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The doctrine's racist origins explain its current function. Police arrested 15 clergy members for challenging segregation, the Supreme Court later ruled segregation unconstitutional, but then created...
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