Oh God. Now I guess I am going to have to dredge up the SCOTUS rulings where Police officers are not required to protect any citizen, uphold any law, or in any way do their job just to prove that this is really groundbreaking. Can you imagine it? This may be a first.
Arizona’s statute requires an officer to verify the immigration status of a person stopped for other alleged crimes, if “reasonable suspicion” exists of illegal presence in the U.S.
But the law also empowers Arizona residents to sue an officer they believe isn’t enforcing the law to the fullest extent.
“If he enforces the law, he can be sued. If he doesn’t enforce the law, he can be sued” by a private citizen, said Stephen Montoya, the attorney for Mr. Salgado. His client “is caught between a rock and a hard place,” he said.
via Arizona Immigration Law: Phoenix Cop David Salgado Sues Over Racial Profiling Concerns – WSJ.com.