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79 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. Online 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/waleelro79 and id is 1 raw text is: How to Get Away with Murder: When a White Male Police Officer Kills a Young Black Person Mitchell F. Crusto* Abstract Systemic racism in policing allows police officers, in particular white men, to continue to perpetuate the violent killings of Black people. This violence is not accidental. Rather it is intentional and allowed to continue due to a failure by the Supreme Court to hold police officers accountable. This Article explains how the doctrines of qualified immunity, willful intent, and objective reasonableness, as condoned by the Court, allow police officers to 'get away with murder. Table of Contents INTRODU CTION .................................................................. 2 I. POLICE ARE KILLING BLACK PEOPLE .........................4 * J.D. Yale, M.A. Oxford; the Henry F. Bonura, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Special thanks to the John Mercer Langston Black Law Professors Organization and to Loyola law graduates Jillian Morrison and LaTreshia Hamilton. This Article reflects the author's constitutionally-based support for the sanctity of Black lives. See Mitchell F. Crusto, Black Lives Matter: Banning Police Lynchings, 48 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 3 (2020) (arguing a Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' right to life rationale for protecting Black lives); Mitchell F. Crusto, Right to Life: Interest-Convergence Policing, 71 RUTGERS L. REV. 63 (2018) (arguing an Eighth Amendment, capital punishment jurisprudence rationale for prohibiting police use of lethal force). 1