[yesthatjallen]

Now that the gun hysteria sideshow has subsided, people are finally noticing there was a failure by the school and police to protect students.

[Kickass Conservative]

“To Protect and Serve”, if we’re up to the task.

So says the Gun Grabber Sheriff.

[butlerweave]

Ya , Sue Obama ,he screwed everything up

[headstamp 2]

They should sue the FBI also. Twice they failed to act on credible tips.

[Kickass Conservative]

Did these people Rally in Chicago?

[crz]

You all note that this sheriff, along with the chief LEO in the Giffords shooting got out and started yapping as soon they could find a microphone.

The reason was that they were culpable in it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They need to go after Obama and Holder for their “PROMISE” Program that created the environment for the shooter in the first place.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It will fail. Numerous people have sued the police for not protecting them and the SC has ruled that the police have no duty to protect you.

[Rome2000]

Surprised they are actually suing the responsible parties.

Shocking.

[Responsibility2nd]

Sue Obama.

It was his federal policies that kept the thugs and punks in school and not prison.

It was his fault that school officials and authorities had to look the other way while Cruz thugged his way through high school.

[Trump.Deplorable]

Notice how everything today is a “civil right”?

Sheriff is an elected office and all you idiots did was kept re-electing the keystone cops each year. Sounds like this is the fault of the parents....

[FlingWingFlyer]

They might want to throw in the NEA just for good measure. We definitely needs some comprehensive education reform to fix our broken system. Time to get off the LGBT/Sexual Identity kick and go back to teaching the “three Rs” with a double helping of HISTORY thrown in. Right now, we’re graduating moronic political props and “voters” for the Socialist Democrat Party. That’s the students who are not murdered by one of their classmates who was “offended” by somebody or something at the school.

[backwoods-engineer]

They need to get a clue. The Supreme Court has said multiple times that the police have no duty to protect any particular individual.

[fruser1]

Probably an ambulance chasing lawyer told them they could sue, even though he knows the courts have found no duty to protect.

So, even though the case will be lost, the lawyer gets paid in the meantime.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

They are going to lose this lawsuit.

Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html

This goes to a point I try to make in 2nd Amendment arguments, that “the public are the police”. The “uniformed police” are just a convenience, to do things the public finds difficult to do, either in the short or long term.

The purpose of the uniformed police is to:

1) Act as agents for the courts, and deliver those wanted by the courts to the courts, holding them before, during and after court hearings until released.

2) To collect and collate evidence of crimes, and doggedly pursue and detain criminal suspects and performing arrest and search with warrants.

3) To provide this evidence and testimony to prosecutors to secure criminal indictments before grand juries, and subsequently to criminal juries.

4) To act as a day and night watch.

5) To perform crowd and traffic control as well as to subdue riot.

[chris37]

They violated their own civil rights by failing to protect themselves.

If a capable person refuses to defend themselves, why should I or anyone else defend them?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I thought the courts decided years ago that the police have no obligation to protect you, they are there to investigate crimes.

[dforest]

I think the police will lose this lawsuit because the police were there at an active shooting and failed to act. Stood outside and allowed a live shooter to have his way.

[Amendment10]

”… school and county officials violated students’ constitutional rights [??? emphasis added] when they did not adequately safeguard Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, ..."

Nothing that I’m still under the impression that local security officials were wrongly told to step down in MSDHS tragedy, there’s a problem with arguing that local officials violated students’ constitutional rights imo.

More specifically, the Supreme Court has clarified that there is no constitutional right to police protection.

• Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales

• Is it true The Supreme Court ruled law enforcement agencies don't have a constitutional duty to protect citizens?

The Castle Rock v. Gonzales decision argues that individual citizens don’t have a constitutional right to police protection.

In other words, the Founding States made the 2nd Amendment so that individual citizens could police themselves.

Corrections, insights welcome.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yeah, Baby. Finally scrutiny where it belongs.

[Liz]

.....the suit's 15 plaintiffs were students in school on the day of the shooting.....
defendants include Broward County, the massacre's locale; school superintendent Runcie;
and four individual members of local law enforcement.......

Nice going........I hope the settlement is huge. Discovery should include questions WRT:

<><> can Runcie account for the $53 million tax dollars showered on Broward for keeping criminal minorities off the arrest roles?

<><> why is Runcie sitting on a $900 million school bond issue that was passed by the Broward resident suckers?

Runcie hand-picked by Obama out of Chicago.....named Superintendent of The Year.
Pockets about half a million dollars per year for overseeing the massacre.