Today, Ayanna reintroduced the End Qualified Immunity Act, alongside Senator Ed Markey, advocates, and impacted families.
Police brutality is a crisis plaguing Black and brown communities, and qualified immunity currently shields law enforcement from accountability — denying justice for too many victims and families who’ve been robbed of their loved ones. That's why Ayanna has been fighting to end qualified immunity since her first term in Congress.
Ayanna originally introduced this bill in June 2020 after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. Now, Ayanna is reintroducing this legislation to keep up the pressure on Congress to act, because we know there can be no true accountability in our country if we do not eliminate qualified immunity.
On this very day in 1871, Congress passed the “Ku Klux Klan Act,” one of the first civil rights laws — that allowed people to sue anyone acting under the authority of the state who deprived them of their constitutional rights. It’s the law the Supreme Court gutted when it created the doctrine of qualified immunity.
So, more than 150 years later — in the face of persistent, traumatizing, deadly police violence — it’s why Ayanna is reintroducing her legislation to restore the protections provided by the “Ku Klux Klan Act” and end qualified immunity. We must be bold and unapologetic in our pursuit of policies that ensure police accountability and address the crises of systemic racism and police brutality.
In solidarity,
The A-Team
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