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.
Remember the harassment the parents received after calling the police out? What a world.
Remember when that county overwhelmingly voted R after a firearm tragedy that killed their children?
I’m not saying that makes the harassment ok. It absolutely doesn’t. I’m pointing out that they’re voting with the people who harass them.
Remembering this story makes my blood boil. Don’t be a cop if you’re a fucking pussy.
People become cops because they already were pussies
This is the unfortunately correct answer.
Then they should use the job to get the fuck over it
How sociopathic do you have to be to hear screaming children and gunshots from inside a school and not try to do something?
Like, do you not have even the most basic human instinct to protect children?
I’m sure most of the cops were very eager to go in. As soon someone else tried first, they’d have been right behind them.
And every last one of them should have been the type to go first. There were kids screaming for help and they didn’t act. I don’t care if they would have, they didn’t.
Ever been at a playground with your kid, and you hear a scream? Turns out it was someone else’s kid and they’re already on it but you’re already on your feet and so are half the parents there. It’s hard wired. Their training might not be good for keeping people safe, but it sure as hell must be good at subverting basic human instincts.
Are you seriously comparing the sounds of children dying in a fucking school shooting to kids playing in a park?Edit: I need better reading comprehension.
How are you getting that from what I wrote? I’m saying it’s a basic human instinct that when you hear a child in distress you find yourself moving toward that child, whether it’s yours or not. There were a lot of police there, and none of them acted on that instinct. I’m agreeing with you. It’s insane that none of those people, many if not most of whom were parents, acted on that natural instinct to protect children.
I find it particularly grim that their training must be excellent at subverting basic human emotions but apparently doesn’t do anything to help them actually protect and serve. It’s clearly effective, it’s just horrifying what they’re training them to be.
Sorry, I didn’t fully process what you had wrote as this whole thing is insanely distressing.
It’s turning more to be If you weren’t a fucking pussy, why would you associate and claim these as your people?
Uvalde reelected everyone involved in the MURDER and COVERUP and CHILDREN!
The profits must flow.
Now this explains sudden retirement of Uvalde police chief. Way to go!
I wish so bad I believed in YHWH’s hell so I could sleep knowing he would spend all of eternity there.
I support them fully, but don’t expect them to have much success.
Ah yes, better training for police officers, that ought to fix it.
Good.
I hear some reports that they’re using individual officers as well
That’s good. No more borg response teams; they show no initiative whatsoever.
I’m not a gun person and hate the whole “solve guns with more guns” bullshit, but this is why I’m actually fairly onboard with sticking a (well evaluated) combat veteran in schools.
After all the shit we dealt with fuck some snotty little asshole who got passed over for prom or wtfever.
Yeah but also in Texas a (at the time) current member of the Army shot an Air Force Veteran because he got scared of the guy existing, so clearly the quality of Veterans in Texas was exponentially reduced on that day.
