The family of a Dallas police officer who died in a Feb. 22, 2008, motorcycle accident during a motorcade for then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (seen above in Dallas on that day) has sued not just Secretary Clinton herself, but also her presidential campaign, the city of Dallas, and the manufacturer of the officer's helment.
How is Clinton personally at fault? There's a section of the original petition (Theresa A. Lozada, et al. v. City of Dallas, et al.) called "Clinton's Failures," and it says:
Defendant Clinton knew from her experience as First Lady and later as Senator/First Lady, that motorcade escorts require sufficient notice and advance coordination to be performed safely.… In spite of this knowledge Clinton and Clinton, Inc. [her campaign] failed to provide such advance notice and timing."
Fortunately for Clinton, the allegations against her probably won't "get too far," according to the Business Insider Law Review, which stated:
[W]e doubt the allegations against the current Secretary of State
will get too far. Though we imagine advanced notice is good for
anything requiring multiple vehicles moving at increased speeds,
motorcades by their nature are often used in emergencies. That
Clinton's failure to provide "adequate notice" would lead to the death
of an officer would be considered "foreseeable" under a negligence
standard is highly unlikely.
I feel bad for the family of the deceased officer, but it really seems to be stretching it to hold Clinton personally responsible. The petition says the officer did not have proper training for being in the motorcade, and if that's the case, then perhaps the entity that assigned him to a job he wasn't ready for bears some responsibility.
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