Uvalde survivors sue cops for billions

Victims and families of the Uvalde, Texas, massacre have filed a multibillion-dollar class action lawsuit against police and city and school officials.

The suit, filed in federal court in Austin Tuesday, states that officials, including law enforcement, failed to protect children and teachers from an armed attacker inside a fourthgrade classroom during the May 24 shooting spree.

The lawsuit is seeking $27 billion for survivors, who continue to suffer “emotional or psychological damages as a result of the defendants’ conduct and omissions on that date.”

Among the plaintiffs are school staff and the representatives of children who were present at Robb Elementary School when 18year-old Salvador Ramos burst onto the school grounds and slaughtered the fourth-graders and their teachers.

“The conduct of the three hundred and seventy-six (376) law enforcement officials who were on hand for the exhaustively torturous seventy-seven minutes of law enforcement indecision, dysfunction, and harm, fell exceedingly short of their duty-bound standards,” the lawsuit says.

Prior to filing the class action suit, the families sought a $27 billion settlement from the school district, multiple law enforcement agencies and the city in August, seeking to resolve the matter without going to court.

A group of survivors has also sued Daniel Defense, which made the firearm used in the shooting. That suit seeks $6 billion.