Veeeery Eintieresteinge! The very thing used by the victim disarmament
crowd seems to have some holes in it…….(bullet holes?)

-Chris

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From: [email protected] (Ron Castleton)
Date: 04/20/2000, 12:04:41 PM
Subject: ~Lawsuit Charges Police Bullet Killed Columbine Student – Coverups ?

~Lawsuit Charges Police Bullet Killed Columbine Student – Coverups ?
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http://my.netscape.com/news/TopStories/04_19_2000.rontz2107-story-bcnewscolumbinelawsuit.html

COMMENTS ON ATTACHED REUTERS REPORT:

These lawsuits had to be filed because the police refused to
release the forensic information to family lawyers
until recently, after a lawsuit was filed. Now that
some of it, but not all (?) has been at least looked at,
the coverup/liability lawsuits are being filed.

The police were attempting to hide the info until after
the 1 year limit for filing such lawsuits had passed.

They failed.

There appear to be 3 specific reasons to hide the autopsy
& ballistic/forensic information for so long:

1. Police/SWAT team panic fire killed and/or wounded one or
more of the students, not the two shooters’ bullets/shotgun
pellets.

GOV’T CONCERN: – Exposes SWAT teams as useless and cowards.

– Exposes police as useless to prevent
a crime in progress.

– Exposes SWAT teams as indiscriminate
killers of the innocent.

– Could result in dismantling of
SWAT teams, which get free military
training and equipment.

– Exposes the dangers of militarized
police and their chain of command
in a real-life situation.

– Police officers and commanders could
be fired and go to prison.

2. Hundreds of heavily armed police SWAT team members from
Littleton and surrounding areas, equipped with
automatic weapons and body armor, were too scared
and disorganized to enter the building while
more victims were selected and executed, or later
lay slowly bleeding to death.

The time line shows that this stalling continued for several
hours after the two shooters had committed suicide and
other students were pleading from windows for the police
to enter the building — but the police cowered outside.

Additionally, one or more SWAT team snipers had clear shots
at the shooters in the school building, but were refused
permission by superiors to make a kill shot to save lives.

GOV’T CONCERN: – Exposes police as toe-taggers that
are unable to do more than write the
report after a crime, unlike TV cops.

– Proves the point of the pro-gun position
that police cannot protect individuals,
and legally have no such responsibility.

– Implicates the police in manslaughter
charges by deliberate inaction.

– Could result in dismantling of
SWAT teams, which get free military
training and equipment.

– Exposes the ineffectiveness of
militarized police and the chain of
command in a real-life situation.

– Reminds people that the Waco debacle,
where the Clinton militarized federal
agents acted similarly, is one of
a string of such incidents in the Clinton
era of police state tactics, now copied at
the local level, almost eerily, step-by-
-fatal-step.

– Police officers and commanders could
be fired and go to prison.

3. Forensic data will reveal what I have seen piecemeal
in the last year in interviews with the wounded victims
on TV:

– Most victims were hit by stainless steel shot fired by
the Savage shotgun, not the 9mm TEC-9 pistol demonized by
the media and Clinton to try to get more anti-gun laws
passed. Since shotguns are rarely used in crime, they
are hard to demonize. (This assumes that the majority
of the others were not hit by police bullets, but who
knows ?)

(I personally have see 3 victims’ interviews on TV. They all
had multiple wounds either to the torso, limbs or face
that were not only obviously inflicted by shotgun pellets,
but one male victim, pulling up his pants leg, stated that the
several visible wounds still had the stainless steel shot
inside his leg.)

These was zero discussion of the shotgun’s role in the media,
in spite of these interviews that were 100% shotgun inflicted.

It was almost as if the media wanted us to believe that the
TEC-9 fired stainless steel shot.

GOV’T CONCERNS: -Exposes lying by Clinton, police and media
about how the victims were wounded and killed.

-Exposes the lying by Clinton, police and
media about guns, crime and police-state
policies toward firearms ownership.

-Exposes the true agenda of the anti-gun
fanatics and their blatant lies, particularly
if one or more victims were really downed by
police gunfire.

-Police officers and commanders could
be fired and go to prison.
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http://my.netscape.com/news/TopStories/04_19_2000.rontz2107-story-

bcnewscolumbinelawsuit.html

Host of Lawsuits Filed in Columbine Massacre

DENVER (Reuters) – The parents of a student killed
in the Columbine High School massacre claimed in a
lawsuit filed on Wednesday that a sheriff’s officer,
not the two classmates who carried out the rampage,
fired the bullet that killed their son.

The allegation was made by the family of Daniel
Rohrbough in one of nine lawsuits filed by 15 families
against Jefferson County sheriff’s officers nearly one
year after the shootings at the Littleton, Colo.
school.

The Rohrbough lawsuit did not specify which officer
they believe shot the 15-year-old and did not allege
that the shooting was intentional.

Steve Davis, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office,
strongly denied the allegation, saying “there is
absolutely no information to support that.”

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[Q. Then why was the forensic/autopsy info hidden
from sight for almost a year, hoping to skate
past the 1 year lawsuit limit ??]
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The Rohrbough lawsuit said Daniel’s mother and
father reached their conclusion “based upon
reports from a police officer who was at the
scene and a teacher at the scene, the initial
position of their son’s body, and trajectory of
the fatal bullet as disclosed in the autopsy
report on their son.”

The Jefferson County attorney in a statement said
he was confident the claims of the lawsuits in
general were without any legal merit and would be
defended vigorously.

The lawsuits came a day before the first anniversary
of the April 20, 1999 killing when two angry teenagers
turned the suburban high school into a shooting
gallery, killing 12 students and a teacher and
wounding 23 others before shooting themselves fatally.

Their timing was aimed at beating a one-year
deadline on such proceedings.

Most of the other lawsuits alleged that sheriff’s
officers did nothing or too little to rescue the
victims and had failed to act sufficiently on
early warning signs about the teenage gunmen.

The family of slain teacher Dave Sanders claimed
that he bled to death because sheriffs’ officers
did not make an attempt to reach him for four hours.

Some of the lawsuits were filed in federal court
and others in state court.