Uvalde Survivors Seek $27 Billion for Inept Response to Shooting

Students, parents, teachers, and staff members from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, filed a potential class action seeking $27 billion, claiming that the failure of law enforcement officers to immediately neutralize a mass shooter at the school added to their trauma and injuries.

State and local regulations required the responding officers to disregard their own safety during an active shooter incident and subdue the shooter as soon as possible, the complaint said. Instead, the scene at the school on May 24, 2022 was chaotic with no command and control by law enforcement, the plaintiffs claim.

Law enforcement officers, who ...