The survivors of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, filed a $27 billion class action lawsuit against the law enforcement officials who failed to stop the shooter.
The survivors of the Uvalde school shooting filed a class action lawsuit.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District and the school district police department, as well as the Uvalde Police Department, the state's Department of Public Safety and multiple officials in the school were sued.
Following the release of video footage and a state report revealing officers waited more than an hour to confront the 18-year-old, people in the suit said they were traumatized by the officers' lack of action.
Pete Arredondo, the former school police department chief, and the former school principal, were accused of acting with indifference to the constitutional rights of the people who sued them.
The Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training program was established in response to the 1999 school shooting in order to teach police how to respond to active shooter situations.
Arredondo had defended the police's response in a June interview with the Texas Tribune, saying the "only thing that was important" was to "save as"
Instead of swiftly implementing an organized and concerted response to an active school scooter who had broken into the school buildings, the conduct of the law enforcement officials who were on hand for 77 minutes was torturous.
The shooting that left 21 people dead on May 24 has led to criticism of the local law enforcement. The slow response by more than 300 officers who responded to the shooting was due to systemic failures and poor decision making, according to a state House committee report. The officers waited more than an hour to confront Ramos. The attack at Robb Elementary School was one of several high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. that prompted Congress to pass a gun control bill in June.
Two months ago, the families of the victims filed a class action lawsuit against the school district, local law enforcement officials and gun companies, accusing them of negligent, careless and reckless decisions that enabled the attack. The gun store that sold Ramos two assault rifles, as well as Daniel Defense, which makes the rifle that Ramos used, were named in the suit. A federal lawsuit was filed this week by the family of one of the students who was killed in the shooting.
The city of Uvalde has filed a lawsuit against the Uvalde County District Attorney, accusing her of withholding information from an investigation into the police's response to the shooting. All relevant records were sought in the lawsuit, according to the Texas Tribune. One month ago, the school district suspended its police department.
The Uvalde classroom door wasn't locked and police didn't try to open it without a key.
The Uvalde survivors have filed a class action lawsuit.
The survivors of the Uvalde shooting filed a $27 billion lawsuit against first responders.
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