Posted on 12/03/2022 3:25:33 PM PST by george76
Survivors of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have filed a $27 billion class-action lawsuit against multiple law enforcement officials in the state.
This comes six months after the killings, which were the deadliest U.S. school shooting in almost a decade. Nineteen children and two teachers we killed by the gunman in May.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. It names the city of Uvalde, its police department, the school district, the state Department of Public Safety, and several police and school officials as defendants.
The plaintiffs, which include parents, teachers, and staff members, are alleging that the officials failed to follow protocols for an active shooter, despite having received active shooter training and that they did not neutralize the shooter immediately, leading to further trauma and injuries.
“Law enforcement took seventy-seven minutes to accomplish what they were duty bound to expeditiously perform,” the lawsuit states.
“Not only had CISD-PD undertaken a state-sponsored and mandated active shooter response training, but CISD had additionally promulgated its own required protocols and standards to employ in the event of an active shooter on one of its campuses.
“Despite such preparedness, the CISD police department, along with similarly trained law enforcement agencies including the City of Uvalde’s police department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, San Antonio Police Department’s SWAT unit, Uvalde’s Sheriff’s office, and the United States Department of Homeland Security fundamentally strayed from conducting themselves in conformity with what they knew to be the well-established protocols and standards for responding to an active shooter,” the lawsuit added.
Officers Waited Over an Hour..
Nearly 400 law enforcement officials arrived at the school on May 24 but opted to wait over 70 minutes to enter the fourth-grade classroom where gunman Salvador Ramos had locked himself in and take him down.
A 77-page report published in July by the Texas state House of Representatives found that there were multiple “shortcomings and failures” across the board by both law enforcement and UCISD in its response.
Plaintiffs are seeking damages for the survivors of the shooting, including parents whose children were killed and those who witnessed the deadly incident.
According to the lawsuit, plaintiffs “sustained emotional and psychological damages as a result of Defendants’ conduct” on the day of the shooting, while some of the children are suffering from severe anxiety and nightmares.
A string of lawsuits have been filed against the Uvalde school district and law enforcement officers since May.
Mother of Victim, 10, Files Lawsuit..
Earlier this week, Sandra Torres, the mother of 10-year-old victim Eliahna sued over the response to the shooting.
The lawsuit names the city of Uvalde; the County of Uvalde; the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District; the Uvalde Police Department; Uvalde CISD Police; Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office; Uvalde Constables, and the Texas Department of Public Safety as defendants.
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Lawyers for Torres allege that the actions of law enforcement officers on the day of the shooting resulted in prolonged suffering for the victims.
The Alex Jones billion dollar settlement precedent is blowing up in their faces.
You are not supposed to do unto them what they do unto others.
Not $27 Trillion?
A billion doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Excellent!
When seconds count
Uvalde cops are waiting in the hallway
All the officers and leaders of that police department must face personal punishment.
The glorious leftist tradition of standing on still warm corpses and begging, for piles of money continues unabated
How many of these people voted for the democrat leadership that oversaw this atrocity? How many voted against them? In my mind nobody who voted for the rats in charge and nobody who abstained should see a dime.
There has to be intel on the perp that’s being ignored.
“A billion doesn’t go as far as it used to.”
Certainly not in the Ukraine shithole.
They won’t get a cent.
Previous rulings say the government has no duty to protect you
Their propaganda “to serve and protect” is just a marketing ploy.
To underserve and project.
I remember about ten years ago I said that “billion” had become the new “million”. Sure, “billion” was bandied about from time to time, but mostly, regarding government spending and “big” dollars, we talked about millions or hundreds of millions. An then, sure enough, “billion” became the new Million.
But we never, EVER heard the word “trillion”. In fact, that is why it was so unusual for the character’s name in Hitchhiker’s guide. And yet, here we are, already.
And I have little doubt that within ten years we’ll be talking about quadrillion. The money is just loosing value that fast.
FWIW, my high school was brand new in 1970. It was full of high tech equipment and considered really cutting edge. It was advertized as the “million dollar high school”.
My daughter and her husband just paid twice that amount just for their house. And it’s on a postage stamp lot in northeast Seattle.
While I empathize with the parents, the amount is ridiculous. There should be nothing beyond economic damages in all cases, no punative damages at all.
And what the darn lawyers get should be capped in relation to economic damages no matter what.
I simply can not find the words/thoughts to express the genius and correctness of the above post. People simply HAVE to suffer severe and horrific consequences for voting Democrat and putting people like that in charge.
Qualified immunity....
There is NO AMOUNT OF MONEY that can replace the life of a loved one that was wasted by these cowards. I support the Old Testament,
Deuteronomy 19:21 KJV
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
EXECUTE ALL 400!! I am so sick and tired of Incompetents being given a pass because they are either public officials or LEOS.
They will lose. Police had no legal obligation to save those kids. I dont like it but that is the truth.
Yep , like that one cop who stopped to use hand sanitizer in the hallway. If you were in an active shooter situation, how can you justify taking your hands off your weapon for even one second to use hand sanitizer?
Excellent why?
Nobody who had anything to do with this will be paying.
Just regular folks who didn't shoot anybody.
Why is it "excellent" if they have to pay for it?
And paying for WHAT exactly?
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