In a sane world, they’d be able to do so.
But the courts have ruled that government is not liable to keep people and property safe.
Yes...
The Class Action Civil Liability Lawsuit will be EPIC.
Whether the Mayor can be held personably responsible depends on a lot of factors, but the couple of attorney’s I have asked about this both said “Someone” is going to be paying out huge bucks.
i hope the coke brothers give all them the money to start their businesses back up much further south!
Failure to protect is omission = no liability.
Use of language to encourage crime is commission = liability.
Typically the courts have ruled that police departments do not have a contractual obligation to protect life and property of citizens, therefore not held lible for not showing up.
Police are not required to respond to anything. So sayeth the USSC. They don’t even have to respond to a 911 call.
Lawsuit should be done...
The Police have”No Legal Duty” to protect the citizenry, their only “Legal Duty” is to the political entity that employs them.
Hard to sue a city/cops for not doing what they cannot be coerced into doing. They are under no legal compunction to protect us or our property. I was actually shocked when the cop who “rogered” a 911 call, then opted to go to lunch instead of responding, was fired if the lady hadn’t died, it would probably been swept under the rug, but they don’t want citizens to realize that the police are not there to help us (some are very good men and woman who do feel compelled to be protectors/public servants, but “they” are working hard to weed such out of the future foundation of the Police State the Left strives for).