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DOJ to pay $130M to Parkland massacre families after FBI failed to investigate tip off that student Nikolas Cruz was planning a mass school shooting
2021-11-24
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Family of 16 of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland have reached a monetary settlement with the government

  • Settlement comes over the FBI's failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack

  • Attorneys said the settlement's details are confidential, but a person familiar with the deal said the government will pay the families $127.5 million overall
The Times of Israel adds:
Seventeen students and faculty were killed and another 17 injured when 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz attacked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 assault rifle on February 14, 2018.

Expelled from school for disciplinary reasons, Cruz was known to be fixated by firearms — and had reportedly been identified as a potential threat to his classmates.

Cruz bought the weapon legally, despite having been in local records as having a history of mental health problems.
...diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister, Danielle Woodard, 34, also has a long rap sheet, and is classified as a habitual violent offender...
Victims’ families sued the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
and the Justice Department, saying the FBI had specific tips that Cruz had exhibited increasingly violent mostly peaceful conduct, collected guns and ammunition, and declared a desire to kill people and specifically to carry out a school shooting, according to a statement from Kristina Infante, lead counsel for the relatives.

One of those tips, the Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier admitted, was of a message Cruz posted on YouTube, vowing: "I’m going to be a professional school shooter."

If the FBI had transmitted that information to its Miami field office, it would have been investigated, the plaintiffs argued.

In October, Cruz, now 23, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of premeditated murder. He is awaiting sentencing and prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty
Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 submitted the CBS News version of the story, commenting:
The DOJ, of course, will pay NOTHING to these families. The funds will have come from the US Treasury and the amount added to the national debt. Wouldn't it be nice if instead the money was subtracted from pensions paid to FBI officials, with none of them getting a cent until the amount was paid. Or better, abolish the FBI and start over.
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Posted by:Skidmark

#8  Hey Mr. FBI Agent - that guy is building a bomb in that RV over there... well, we knocked on the door but no one answered...

I will bet neither the Agent nor the SAC was held responsible.
Posted by: Tennessee   2021-11-24 20:29  

#7  And don't forget the Nashville VBIED either...
Posted by: Tennessee   2021-11-24 20:26  

#6  Combine that with some kind of prison term or loss of pension for incompetency for the DOJ people that made the decision.

We can't let the government fail upwards again and again and expect things to get better.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-11-24 11:29  

#5  They don't see it as our money.
Posted by: Chris   2021-11-24 09:30  

#4  

Agree with #1
Did any lose a job or get demoted?
Or was it the Obama 5th Column DOJ running its own show during the Trump Admin?
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-11-24 08:01  

#3  Don’t forget San Bernardino
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2021-11-24 07:39  

#2  Next Bostonians and Fort Hood families.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-11-24 06:57  

#1  DOJ or the taxpayers?
Posted by: Kofi Panda2845   2021-11-24 00:27  

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