We must end ‘qualified immunity’ for police. It might save the next George Floyd

On the night of 30 May last year, I was standing at the mayor of Atlanta’s podium, wondering what I might say to keep my home town from burning itself to the ground before the sun came up in the morning.

The fury erupting in the streets of Atlanta in George Floyd’s name that night was the cry of generations, and it was a righteous cry, and it was justified. Standing there before those TV cameras, I thought of Mr Floyd in his last moments on Earth, his neck crushed...