Attorneys for the families first announced the terms of the settlement with the city in May 2024, and it was approved by the Uvalde city council Tuesday night.
The settlement with the city will spread the $2 million among the 21 families of the victims killed in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, said Javier Cazares, whose daughter Jackie was one of 19 fourth-graders killed by the gunman. Two teachers were also killed.
The suit addresses the botched law enforcement response by requiring enhanced training for city police officers. It also expands mental health services available to the families and the greater Uvalde area, sets May 24 as an annual day of remembrance, and establishes a permanent memorial in the city plaza.
After Uvalde, I never want to hear about Texas grit ever again. Yellowbelly state full of chickenshit cops.
They don’t need “enhanced” training. they need training. They were using the pre-Columbine playbook of treating active shooters as a hostage crisis and not as a mass shooting event.
after Columbine, experts picked everything apart and came to the conclusion that the best response was to get the fuck in there and shoot the bastard, not waiting for backup or to “contain” things.
And just to put this in perspective, even my totally-unarmed security guards know this is the proper response and to assist with getting people out and and getting information into the hands of responding officers. In short, my guards are better trained than these ass-clowns.
They don’t need “enhanced” training. they need training.
I disagree: none of these ass clowns should have qualified for the training in the first place.
well. there is that. Either way, they were following tactics that were nearly 25 years out of date.
Wouldn’t be shocked to find they were still being trained on how to hunt down and capture slaves at this point.
Easy there. You’re giving ass clowns a bad name.
You get an annual day of remembrance, but the bumblefucks who stood around outside get no reprimand and everyone involved gets relected
