Uvalde victims' families sue Texas state police over response to mass shooting

FILE - Flowers are placed around a welcome sign outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, to honor the victims killed in a shooting at the school a day earlier. The families of the victims in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas have agreed to a settlement with the city and are filing a lawsuit against dozens of state police officers who were a part of the botched response from law enforcement.

Nineteen students and four teachers were killed in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history when a teenage gunman entered a classroom at Robb Elementary School and started firing. The police response has received heavy scrutiny and criticism with multiple failures documented in reports conducted by state and federal agencies.

In the lawsuit, the families said state troopers did not follow active shooter training and responsibility to confront the shooter, even as the people inside the classroom were following their own protocol. “The protocols trap teachers and students inside, leaving them fully reliant on law enforcement to respond quickly and effectively,” the families and their attorneys said in a statement.

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