Mostly it seems to be because they're making a federal civil rights complaint. Gross negligence and civil rights complaints tend to defeat immunity, though I don't know if that'll be successful against the city itself.
If they can prove malice on the city's part, immunity goes out the window. And they may be able to do that.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/meyer-vs-marion-complaint-usdc-kansas.pdf
The filing reads more like an investigative journalist report than a legal filling. It's like a small town version of the Wire. The gang in this instance, of course, are police and their sychpohants.
It also goes full blast on the judge and calls her essentially a lazy drunk who can't follow basic legal procedure. What makes that funny is she isn't even a party to the case, because she obviously has qualified immunity even if she's a lazy drunk.
While Chief Cody did not turn off his body camera while relieving himself, he apparently chose to turn it off while he reviewed Gruver’s confidential investigative file on him, for the Marion Police Department did not produce any body camera footage from Chief Cody of him looking through Gruver’s file on him
Included with that quote is a picture of Cody in the pisser, lol.
Humorously enough, they weren't going to run the story on the sheriff. He was hired as sheriff after getting enough complaints to get him fired in the big city. There sheriff knew they had investigated it though and was sure to dig up their sources on it during the raid.
Story sure got ran after the raid though.
What I find interesting is that this is a federal filing, I'm going to see if I can find the filing to b figure out why.
So maybe there will be justice?
I wouldn't count on that. They're going to justify it as confusion during a shootout.
2 years to finally own up to obvious incompetence.
No need to register trailers in Tennessee, so might not see a conclusion with this one.
Speex for yourself.
What an ogg fellow.
That's quite different than attacking directly over the airspace of NATO members.
If the case gets that far they lose. It's always about proximate cause and I promise you, a jury will decide that the raid was proximate cause. Surviving motions to dismiss based on immunity or venue and other stuff is where this case really will be decided. And where the appeals will be directed.