Another school shooting. Florida High School.

rotorhead said:
Saw on the Fox news site today that the school had a deputy assigned to it, armed and in uniform while the scene was active. He knew there was shooting but chose not to go inside and engage.

Coward.

He's been fired by the sheriff as he continues his game of Operation Save Ass.
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heard he was allowed to retire - not fired.... not confirmed
 
Dave951 said:
So anybody following the story that the Sheriffs Dept (Sheriff was a friend of Debbie Wasserman Schultz) DID have a Resource Officer who was SUPPOSED to be on site when this started but he did NOTHING!!!!
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He was on site, he just chose to stay outside instead of going in to meet the threat for whatever reason.
 
Well I guess the Sheriff is happy all his guys went home safe and sound after their shift. :confused:

After listening to the "town hall" from the Commie News Net, the Sheriff is sticking to the "never let a crisis go to waste" theme of the left. Time to renew my NRA membership even though it's not time.
 
smithnwesley said:
heard he was allowed to retire - not fired.... not confirmed
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No. He resigned, after having been suspended without pay.

Looks like he was only looking out for his own "retirement ready" *ss, because he had over 30 years with the department.

EDIT:

I just re-read the story in the link below. He did retire right after resigning.

That doesn't change the fact that he's under investigation, though.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/b...g/fl-florida-shooting-sro-20180222-story.html

The police officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing to enter the building as a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people.

Sheriff Scott Israel said Deputy Scot Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.” Video footage showed Peterson did none of that, Israel said.


The sheriff’s office also said Thursday that two deputies were put under investigation for how they handled potential warnings about Cruz, including one from November in which a caller said Nikolas Cruz “could be a school shooter in the making.”

Peterson, 54, came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Cruz entered a school building with an AR-15 rifle and killed 14 students and three educators on Valentine’s Day. Cruz later confessed, police said.

The sheriff said video shows Peterson was outside the building for “upwards of four minutes” while students were gunned down inside.

“What I saw was a deputy arrive … take up a position and he never went in,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “There are no words. I mean these families lost their children. We lost coaches,” Israel said.

Peterson resigned, and subsequently retired, at 12:37 p.m. Thursday after he was suspended without pay earlier in the day, Israel said. An investigation into what happened will continue.

Peterson’s resignation ends a more than three-decade career with the agency, where he was often regarded by peers as a dependable employee who could communicate well with both staff and students.


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Felicia Burgin, a ninth-grade English teacher, was locked in her classroom with students on the second floor of the building, as they heard shots from the floor above.

She said the criticism of Peterson is unfair. Peterson wouldn’t have stood a chance against the gunman in hallways that were filled with students at the time, she said.

“There is no one that is going to tell you a negative thing about Deputy Peterson," she said. “He was an Eagle and he was committed to our school. I don’t know what he could have done other than literally died.”


Wrong answer, lady. What he COULD have done was his JOB. And, having done so, might very well have save the lives of most of the children who ended up dying.

But we'll never know that, will we? Because he played chicken and did NOTHING, rather choosing to let others die in his stead so he could enjoy a retirement after having already served more than 30 years.
 
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drypowder said:
Of course. It's a reference to "Lord of the Flies".
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I know what it was probably in reference to, and I was hoping that was the case...but I didn't have a full sense of the twitter posting because I didn't read it myself...coulda been a response to someone else's posting that would have made it more obvious.

But yeah...Lord of the Flies was what I immediately thought of!
 
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