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Jilly_in_VA

(9,852 posts)
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 12:41 PM Nov 2022

Uvalde mom files a federal lawsuit against police, gunmaker in school massacre

The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter was about her nervous excitement over whether she’d make the all-star softball team. Hours later, Eliahna Torres was one of 19 children and two teachers massacred at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

With little closure and few answers about law enforcement’s 77-minute wait on May 24 in the school hallway rather than confronting the gunman, Sandra Torres filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against police, the school district and the maker of the gun the shooter used.

“My baby never made it out of the school,” she said. “There’s no accountability or transparency. There’s nothing being done.”

The lawsuit accuses the city, the school district and several police departments of a “complete failure” to follow active shooter protocols and violations of the victims’ constitutional rights by “barricading them” inside two classrooms with the killer for more than an hour. The city said it doesn’t comment on pending litigation and the school district and police did not immediately return messages.

Torres is being helped by the legal arm of the group Everytown for Gun Safety. Her suit also names the manufacturer of the AR-style semiautomatic rifle that Salvador Ramos used to fire more than 100 rounds in the horrific mass shooting.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/texas-mom-sues-police-gunmaker-uvalde-school-shooting-rcna59139

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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
2. Funny how that works. WE pay police salaries to protect THEM. Those who make laws for US to follow.
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 01:22 PM
Nov 2022

This shit needs to end.



LiberalLovinLug

(14,153 posts)
3. Ridiculous that the only kind of justice for the police's cowardly non-action is suing for money
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 03:46 PM
Nov 2022

There should have been a whole lot of heads rolling. A total revamp and rehire of the Uvalde police as part of it.

Money, even if they win, is just coming out of taxpayers pockets and the cowards will probably get a raise next year.

IcyPeas

(21,737 posts)
4. it's amazing to me how stories like the Uvalde shooting fall from the front pages so quickly
Tue Nov 29, 2022, 04:02 PM
Nov 2022

in my opinion.

good luck to Sandra Torres.

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