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+I affirm Resolved: The United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers |
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+Resolutional Framing |
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+The value is justice because ought is “used to express justice.” That’s Random House 2k16. |
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+"ought". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 22 Jul. 2016. Dictionary.comhttp://www.dictionary.com/browse/ought. |
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+The criterion is minimizing human suffering and subsequently death through youngs politics of differnce |
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+Every person and institution has an obligation to minimize suffering. Util fails as it has no priorities rather we should have a universal effort to minimize suffering with an emphasis on structural impacts; power relations form many harms thus we should minimize those that are endemic to society first. |
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+Young 2010 Iris Marion. Professor of Political Science at the University ofx Chicago, affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program @ UChicago. Responsibility for Justice, published by Oxford University Press in 2010. pp.137-9 |
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+Some philosophers reject the claim that the scope of obligations of justice extends only to |
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+can maximize their ability to act jointly and minimize violent conflict among them. |
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+The resolution is a question of limiting qualified immunity’s justice, so you vote aff as long as limiting qualified immunity is net just regardless of whether there are other more just options. |
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+Part 1 is Police Brutality |
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+Qualified Immunity, aka QI, is what fuels and allows for police brutality. We check our police with suits, and QI doesn’t even allow for that. It allows officers to feel safe acting in deadly ways by not allowing prosecution without a court precedent. This means victims of police brutality can rarely bring justice to their attackers. Then since officers are never held accountable, they can hurt as they please often with biases which reinforces social issues like racism. Thus, since limiting QI holds officers accountable, it reduces police brutality by destroying what it roots from- a lack of accountability. |
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+Wright 15 Sam Wright, 11-25-2015, "Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity," Above the Law, http://abovethelaw.com/2015/11/want-to-fight-police-misconduct-reform-qualified-immunity/?rf=1 Sam Wright is a dyed-in-the-wool, bleeding-heart public interest lawyer who has spent his career exclusively in nonprofits and government. |
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+Recently, police have been killing and otherwise abusing people of color with what seems |
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+show that that conduct’s illegality has already been clearly established in the courts? |
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+QI’s loophole that allows for police brutality, hurts Natives the most and although anti-Black violence is decreasing, Natives haven’t seen such a decrease- Native fatalities by police are expected to double this year |
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+Indian Country Today 16 Indian Country Today Media Network, 8-4-2016, "Number of Native Americans Killed By Police Could Double By End of 2016," http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/04/native-americans-killed-police-could-double-end-2016-165372 Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/04/native-americans-killed-police-could-double-end-2016-165372 |
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+The number of Native Americans killed by police is on track to double this year |
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+that it will investigate on grounds of racial bias, The Guardian reported. |
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+This is what the world hides: Part 2 is Settlerism |
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+The power that maintains the disappearance of indigenous peoples. Settlers don't just erase indigenous people—but the settler as well—they forget the violent erasure of native people that founds and sustains us—Settlerism forgets the US’ ongoing role as a colonizer and allows it to completely erase its sins and Natives themselves. |
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+Henderson 15 Phil. Department of Political Philosophy at the University of Victoria. “Imagoed communities: the psychosocial space of settler colonialism,” published in SETTLER COLONIAL STUDIES. Pg 2-3. Accessible here at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2015.1092194, Reichle |
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+While colonialism is present as an historic fact within public consciousness, settler colonialism remains |
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+‘everywhere that there are settler collectives, and it occurs constantly’. 13 |
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+The discussion of the resolution and police accountability CANNOT continue to ignore Native Americans. The problem for Native Americans is indeed one of accountability- the very thing that qualified immunity prevents. QI helps erase the indigenous by allowing officers to kill them with no repurcusions even being rewarded with the esteemed Medal of Honor. This is a continuation of a centuries old genocide. |
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+Moya-Smith 14 Simon Moya-Smith, 12-24-2014, "Who's most likely to be killed by police?," CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/24/opinion/moya-smith-native-americans/ |
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+As the country continues to debate police accountability and the all-too-routine |
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+only a little. We will still have a long way to go. |
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+Addressing actual violence comes before abstract revolution since survival is a prerequisite to change. Stopping state violence at its root is just as critical as more abstract radical solutions to fixing settlerism. |
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+Jace WEAVER Director of the Inst. of Native American Studies Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and Religion @ Georgia ‘7 “More Light Than Heat The Current State of Native American Studies” American Indian Quarterly 31 (2) p.248-251 |
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+***NAS = Native American Studies |
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+In our histories, we know numerous warriors |
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+then will we stand a chance of consistently generating more light than heat. |