Families of Uvalde School Shooting Victims Are Suing Texas State Police Over Botched Response

TIME

The families of 19 of the victims in the Uvalde elementary school shooting in Texas have announced a $500 million federal lawsuit against 92 state police officers who were part of the botched law enforcement response.

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00:00Anybody who knows anything about this case and the response knows that it was an inexcusable failure at the end of the day.

00:08There's nothing we can do about it now.

00:11But instead of suing the city and jeopardizing the finances of anybody,

00:18the families have accepted that simply the insurance doesn't affect anybody.

00:27This is simply highlighting that we've settled with the city.

00:31There will be lawsuits forthcoming most immediately against the state of Texas,

00:39which has done nothing at all but burden this town before the shooting by not giving them the resources they need,

00:49prevented these families from getting the information they need,

00:53and then blaming this city.

00:57This day is really a day to allow these families to heal and tell the community of Uvalde that they love you,

01:12they love living here, and they want to stay here.

01:15It's been an unbearable two years.

01:19We all know who take our children's lives, but there was an obvious systemic failure out there on May 24th.

01:26The whole world saw that.

01:29No amount of money is worth the lives of our children.

01:34Justice and accountability has always been my main concern.

01:40We've been let down so many times.

01:43The time has come to do the right thing.

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