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Virginia Beach Sheriffs Immune
This is May 15, 2008. I read in today’s Virginian-Pilot that a U.S. magistrate has ruled that Virginia Beach Sherriff's deputies are immune in an action brought against them by a woman who claimed that she was beaten while the deputies were affecting her arrest. I don't know who is right or wrong. Hopefully the deputies acted properly and only used the minimum force necessary to take her into custody; if they did act improperly, they should answer for it. The Judge ruled that they are immune from an action for damages, medical expenses, etc., because of their status. I thought that we, the people of this Republic, were equal before the law. If she resisted and injured a deputy, she would have to answer not only criminally, but would be subject to an action for damages by the injured deputy. It is a road that should go both ways. Both sides should answer for their actions. There should be no privileged citizens in our Republic; even the enforcers of the Law must be subject to it.
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