Government,
Criminal,
Civil Litigation
Jun. 3, 2022
Will the Uvalde police be criminally prosecuted?
The only other previous police officer to be charged for failing to confront a gunman in the context of a school shooting was in Parkland, Florida.
Louis J. Shapiro
Email: LouisJShapiro@Gmail.com
Louis, a former Los Angeles County Public Defender, is a criminal defense attorney and State Bar-certified criminal law specialist out of Century City. He is also a legal analyst, board member of the California Innocence Project and Project For The Innocence at Loyola Law School, CACJ and LACBA'S Criminal Justice Executive Committee.
On Sunday, May 29, the Department of Justice announced that it will be conducting a review of the police response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The inquiry comes at the request of Uvalde mayor, Don McLaughlin.
The public is stunned and outraged that a gunman spent more than an hour inside a Robb Elementary school classroom before the police entered to ultimately kill him. Perhaps lives could have been saved had the police officers gone...
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