The police officers who arrested a black pastor while he watered his neighbour's flowers can be sued, a federal appeals court has ruled, reversing a lower court judge's decision which had dismissed the pastor's lawsuit.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the three officers who arrested Michael Jennings in Childersburg, Alabama, in May 2022 lacked probable cause for the arrest and are therefore not shielded by qualified immunity.
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