“The Framers entrusted citizen juries to adjudicate disputes between citizens and their government. Consequently, assessing whether a police officer violated an individual’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force is precisely the type of judgment call the Framers tasked jurors to make. This would mean that a Minneapolis jury should get to decide whether the federal agent’s decisions to use deadly force against Renne Good and Alex Pretti were reasonable—or not.
These are common-sense questions the Framers intended for juries to wrestle with. But as long as the Supreme Court continues on its trajectory of insulating government officials from accountability and Congress remains missing in action, federal agents will operate with the knowledge that the law is not a barrier but a shield.”
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