US Cops

According to the lawsuits filed this week, authorities engaged in a number of inexplicable actions during and prior to the shooting. Below is a short tally of shocking allegations made in the lawsuits:

That someone unnamed in the sheriff's office, a friend of Harris' father, Wayne Harris, terminated other officers' work on a search warrant for the Harris home. This was some 14 months before the Columbine shootings, when Wayne Harris allegedly found a pipe bomb made by his son and had exploded it in a field.
That sheriff's investigators failed to follow up on numerous complaints by the family of student Brooks Brown that Harris was dangerous. The Browns gave sheriff's officers a hard copy of violent threats made on Harris' Web site.
That sheriff's commanders ordered officers who had gone into the school to evacuate and forced hundreds of other officers and paramedics to remain outside for hours.
That people trapped inside the school were ordered — some of them repeatedly, for hours — to stay where they were because help was on its way and would arrive within minutes, which wasn't true.
That, although students and teachers in a science classroom with Dave Sanders hung a sign in the window saying "1 BLEEDING TO DEATH" and repeatedly spoke by telephone with officials, their pleas for help were disregarded for hours.
That Sanders easily could have been rescued through windows on two sides of the classroom.
That, although officials knew for hours of Sanders' location and condition, he was the last person in the school reached by medical help.
That a sharpshooter on the roof of a nearby house told officials at noon that he had a clear shot at Klebold through a library window, but was ordered not to fire.
That authorities issued orders against the use of battering rams, sledgehammers and rappelling gear that might have gained police entry into the school.