Posted on 07/17/2024 8:29:01 AM PDT by TigerClaws
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde elementary school shooting in Texas on Wednesday filed a $500 million federal lawsuit against nearly 100 state police officers who were part of the botched law enforcement response to one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
The families said they also agreed to a $2 million settlement with the city, under which city leaders promised higher standards and better training for local police.
The lawsuit and settlement announcement in Uvalde came two days before the two-year anniversary of the massacre. Nineteen fourth-graders and two teachers were killed on May 24, 2022, when a teenage gunman burst into their classroom at Robb Elementary School and began shooting.
The lawsuit, seeking at least $500 million in damages, is the latest of several seeking accountability for the law enforcement response. More than 370 federal, state and local officers converged on the scene, but they waited more than 70 minutes before confronting the shooter.
It is the first lawsuit to be filed after a 600-page Justice Department report was released in January that catalogued “cascading failures” in training, communication, leadership and technology problems that day.
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Can the families of those injured or killed in the Pennsylvania rally have a similar lawsuit and prevail?
Sure seems like lots of errors that led to Crooks ability to fire off half a dozen shots that day.
$500 million federal lawsuit is not enough.
Sure, let’s charge every taxpayer $500. That will teach the “First Responders” a real lesson.
Better idea: force the cowards to run the gauntlet nude in front of the families - beat them severely.
The “$500 million federal lawsuit” isn’t the answer — forgot the darned </sarcasm> tag — something else needs to happen to LEs.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. Heh.
The local chief of police failed to bring his radio.
If they’d let in the parents, it would have been over in moments. One unarmed little petite mama went in and got her sons out. That’s more than the big bad cops did. If you want something done right, do it yourself.
If this were in a solidly “blue state,” the State would put up a token defense, then roll over, and open the Peoples’ Treasury wide to demonstrate their superior moral standing. Or, Alex Jones’s money. They never spend their own.
The unfortunate and heartbreaking fact, is that money in any amount will not fill the hole in the hearts of these families.
They should sue their own city police but then the money would come out of their own hide.
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