A new lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the Baton Rouge Police Department ran a “torture warehouse” where members of its Street Crimes Unit strip searched, beat, and otherwise humiliated people and then released them, often without their being charged with a crime. Soon after the lawsuit was filed, the FBI opened a civil rights investigation into the allegations of misconduct at the now-shuttered warehouse known as “the BRAVE Cave.”
I did not agree to torture as part of the social contract. Nor did I agree to qualified immunity.
The social contract has been repeatedly broken by the nation/state. And yet the nation/state still has the keys and purse strings.
Sometimes all you have is voting and hoping