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Police Immunity

A federal judge denied qualified immunity to a police officer who allegedly hopped a man’s fence, threw him to the ground and broke his ribs after he told the officer “I can’t breathe.”

AUSTIN — A federal judge denied qualified immunity to a police officer who allegedly hopped a man’s fence, threw him to the ground and broke his ribs after he told the officer “I can’t breathe.”

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