Lawsuit Filed Against Officers Who Responded To Pulse Terror Attack
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Lawsuit Filed Against 31 Officers Who Responded To Pulse Terror Attack
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Survivors and family members of some of those killed at Pulse filed a lawsuit against the responding officers.
Orlando, FL – A lawsuit filed on Thursday against the city of Orlando and the Orlando police officers who responded to the Pulse nightclub terrorist attack has alleged that responding officers failed in their duties and violated the civil rights of surviving victims.
“What if the Orlando Police officers who responded to the shooting were aggressive with a plan to rescue victims and hostages and kill the shooter?” Luis Ocasio-Capo, whose brother was one of the victims, asked the Orlando Sentinel. “Would my brother still be alive?”
he only officer specifically named in the suit was Orlando Police Officer Adam Gruler, who was working an off-duty security detail at the club on June 12, 2016 when a gunman opened fire inside it, murdering 49 people and wounding 50 more.
Officer Gruler engaged in a gun battle with the shooter but retreated and called for assistance because he was outgunned by the killer’s SIG Sauer MCX rifle, CNN reported.
Two more officers arrived and they re-engaged the terrorist in a gunfight. During the gunfight, the terrorist retreated into the club and barricaded himself with hostages.
Orlando PD has estimated that the gunman fired more than 200 rounds in five minutes, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
The city and its police department issued a joint statement that said they have not seen the lawsuit.
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On the night of the mass-shooting, some officers ran into the club and pulled survivors out, then later, about 20 officers engaged in a gun battle with the shooter, CNN reported.
But officers’ efforts did not satisfy the plaintiffs’ attorneys.
"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.
“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,” he said.
The lawsuit appears to be trying to draw from the failed response of Broward County Sheriff's Office to the Parkland school shooting, when deputies did not confront the active shooter.
However, the Pulse terror attack was different in that it transitioned from being an active shooting to a barricaded gunman with hostages.
After the initial gunfight, the gunman took hostages and stopped shooting. Chief John Mina said that the officers were fully prepared to re-engage if the terrorist had started shooting again.
Hostage negotiations lasted for hours with no shots fired until SWAT breached the wall with a BearCat and took the terrorist out.
