> Another thing they should do is make it a bit easier to sue them individually for clearly violating civil rights.
I don't follow this. If it wasn't clearly established that Officer 1 violated your rights by excessive use of force, how could it be clearly established that Officer 2 violated your rights by not preventing Officer 1 from doing whatever he did? By hypothesis, he couldn't reasonably have known that Officer 1 was committing a violation.
I don't follow this. If it wasn't clearly established that Officer 1 violated your rights by excessive use of force, how could it be clearly established that Officer 2 violated your rights by not preventing Officer 1 from doing whatever he did? By hypothesis, he couldn't reasonably have known that Officer 1 was committing a violation.