Parkland Survivors File Lawsuit Against Broward County Schools, Sheriff’s Office

By Tom Knighton

As we’ve repeatedly seen, what happened at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was a complete and total failure of local government. The school system dropped the ball on the eventual killer and so did the sheriff’s office. For all the talk of guns from the Parkland kids, it was their own government–the people they seem to trust completely with firearms, I might add, while trying to disarm the rest of us–that screwed up so royally.

Now, a group of survivors wants to make those entities pay. Literally.

More than a dozen students who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that numerous officials failed to stop the Valentine’s Day massacre at their school.

The lawsuit names Broward County, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie, Broward County sheriff’s deputy and school resource officer Scot Peterson, Capt. Jan Jordan with the Broward Couty Sheriff’s Department and school security monitor Andrew Medina among the defendants. It alleges various civil rights violations under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments that caused “severe psychological injury and trauma” related to the Feb. 14 mass shooting that left 17 …Read the Rest

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