Posted June 11, 2018 8:21 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

Orlando Police Department is under fire again for its inaction during the Pulse massacre in June 2016, according to a new lawsuit filed this week in federal court. (Photo: The Associated Press)
Some 31 Orlando police officers face legal action over their response to the Pulse nightclub massacre, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week.
Attorneys representing 34 victims of the shooting said city cops left 49 people to die inside the club for more than three hours on the morning of June 12, 2016, before killing gunman Omar Mateen and rescuing 58 wounded.
“While people, unarmed, innocent were inside a club getting absolutely massacred by a crazed gunman there were a bunch of people … with guns, with the training and capability to take that shooter out,” Solomon Radner, attorney for the plaintiffs in the case, told ABC News during an interview Thursday. “Instead of doing their job, they worried about themselves, they stayed outside, they worried only about their own safety, knowing that people were literally getting mowed down by the dozens just a few feet away.”
Witnesses trapped inside the club during the attack were then held for more than 10 hours for questioning — a violation of both the

Source: Guns.com

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