The Supreme Court has refused to hold accountable police officers who exhibited “reckless” behavior by arresting and detaining the wrong man – twice.
At the second arrest they jailed the innocent bystander for three days before they bothered to investigate his identity through which they eventually confirmed he was not wanted.
Officials with the Rutherford Institute, who worked on the case involving David Sosa, called the decision by the justices not to take up the case a “blow to due process safeguards.”
“Although David Sosa shares the same name as a man from another state named in an outstanding warrant more than 20 years old, he has a different date of birth, height, weight, and social security number, and did not have any tattoos, unlike the suspect listed in the warrant,” Rutherford’s report explained.
ordinary, everyday citizens have not rights anymore