Posted on 03/16/2022 7:02:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The federal government will pay a $127.5 million settlement over the Parkland, Fla. school massacre — after it admitted the FBI didn’t follow up on two tips that could have prevented the massacre.
The legal deal announced Wednesday settles 40 lawsuits tied to the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which remains the largest high school shooting in US history.
The Department of Justice did not admit fault in the shootings, and the settlement “resolved all the cases” filed against the government by family members of the 16 shooting victims and all the survivors of the attack, a news release said.
Nikolas Cruz, 23, had pleaded guilty to killing 17 students and staff members at the school, and trying to kill 17 others when he opened fired on his former classmates and teachers with a semi-automatic weapon on Valentine’s Day in 2018.
The FBI mishandled two tips about the gunman in the months before the shooting, officials conceded to Congress a month after the shooting.
In one instance, a YouTuber had told the bureau that Cruz had posted “Im going to be a professional school shooter” on the comment section of one of his videos.
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Oops, open the checkbook.
Taxpayers pay for bureaucratic incompetence. Nothing new.
One more brilliant effort on the FBI’s Hall of Shame bulletin board.
How many years now. It’s almost forgotten. The way it works.
How about the Las Vegas shooting and the mass murder by squishing and burning to death kids at Waco....
It sounds like @ssho Cruz decided to have his own little Feb 14 “insurrection” and the Feds missed it. In all fairness, the Feddies were busy trying to bring down President Trump at that time.
LOL, yeah right. They ALLOWED it to happen for some more of that 'gun grabbin narrative' chit.
Whoaaaaa now....they haven’t found ALL the survivors of the attack yet...💸💸💸💸💸💰💵💵💵💰💰
None of the boobs at the FBI get fired over this gross incompetence and the taxpayers are on the hook for the penalty. There is zero incentive to cleanup the FBI as a result.
Why isn’t traitor James Comey personally responsible?
but but but but...Ukraine!!!
Way overboard just for sympathy.
Haven’t heard any squeals out of David Hogg...since COVID.
I thought the police didn’t have any liability for failing to prevent crimes. Do the Feds?
David has been busy posing for pictures:
I’m a survivor!
I was barely out of range by about 2,000 miles.
Yes, include their peers, just like a company. Because until all of them start feeling it in their wallet and depleted pensions, they'll never behave with the best interest of others in mind.
Start with anyone that has or had anything to do with “restorative justice.”
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