LEAGUE CITY
A judge Thursday dismissed a $25 million civil rights lawsuit filed against the city and a police officer by a prominent couple who say they were wrongly jailed in connection with a parking lot fender bender last year, officials said Friday.
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I think that qualified immunity should be a reform item for police. It puts them above the law, and no one should be above the law.
The Halls are fighting a good fight here. This is obvious police overreach giving good police officers a bad name.
She should have exchanged insurance at the scene and not left. She should have complied with the officers request - it should not have seemed unreasonable to see an officer if she had just had a fender bender.
Ooops ! You have to remember , she is part of the HALL empire . At one time the chief of police would have called on a land line and requested the insurance info. They are THE Halls you know .
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