Group launches ads praising Julian Castro's plan to limit 'immunity' for police

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By Suzanne Gamboa
Tucked into Julián Castro’s police overhaul plan is a proposal to pull back on a judicial doctrine that is regularly used to shield officers from civil lawsuits for brutality or misuse of deadly force.

Castro has called for reforming and restricting the "qualified immunity" defense for law enforcement officers in the policing reform plan he released on Monday.


That call has drawn the attention of the liberal group Demand Justice, which is planning a digital ad campaign to thank Castro for taking the stand and to call on other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to do the same.

The ads, which are to begin Monday, will run in the early primary and caucus states of Nevada and South Carolina.

“Castro is the only 2020 candidate so far to even mention it,” said Brian Fallon, Demand Justice’s executive director. The ads are not endorsements and are not coordinated with the campaign . . .

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/group-launches-ads-praising-juli-n-castro-s-plan-limit-n1015156

[loyalsister]

1. Castro's embrace of criminal justice reform is impressive

His is a truth teller who is not willing to give the broad benefit of the doubt to a historically, notorious racist system that has been operating from the ground beats and traffic cops up to the Halls of congress and the white house.
I hope to hear from him well into 2020 and beyond.