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Sheriff: Armed deputy on duty at Florida high school never entered building during massacre


Lori Rozsa and Mark BermanWashington Post


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...-school-on-duty-deputy-17-20180222-story.html

The armed school resource officer assigned to protect students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took a defensive position outside the school and did not enter the building while the shooter was killing students and teachers inside with an AR-15 assault-style rifle, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday.

Israel said he suspended School Resource Deputy Scot Peterson on Thursday after seeing a video from the Parkland, Florida, school that showed Peterson outside the school building where the shooter was inside and attacking.
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"What I saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of Building 12, take up a position, and never went in," Israel said.

He said Peterson was armed, and was in uniform, and should have gone into the building during the 6-minute event, which left 17 people, most of them teenagers, dead. When asked what the deputy should have done, Israel said: "Went in and addressed the killer. Killed the killer."


Peterson, 54, a resource officer at the school since 2009, resigned after Israel suspended him. Israel said two other officers have been placed on a restricted assignment pending an internal investigation relating the school shooting.

"They could have done more; they should have done more," Israel said. "It's a fluid investigation. They are on restrictive duty."

Attempts to reach Peterson on Thursday were unsuccessful.

Israel said that Peterson was in an office dealing with a school-related issue when the first shots were fired on Feb. 14 and that he got on his radio and then moved toward the outside of the building where the shooting was taking place. When asked what he is seen doing on the video, Israel replied: "Nothing."
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"I think he took up a position where it looked like he could see the western-most entry into the building and stayed where he was," Israel said. "Never went in."

Israel said he "clearly" knew there was a shooter inside, something that made him "sick to my stomach."

"There are no words," Israel said. "These families lost their children. We lost coaches. I've been to the funerals. I've been to the homes where they're sitting shiva. I've been to the vigils. It's just, there are no words."

The revelation about the deputy comes as law enforcement officials and authorities have faced intense criticism for whether they missed previous chances to prevent the massacre. The FBI was warned last month about the shooter's potential for violence at a school, but failed to investigate that tip, while school officials, social services investigators and the sheriff's office had multiple encounters or troubling warnings about him over the years.
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Israel's description of Peterson as an armed, trained officer who was present for a mass killing but did not confront the shooter also comes as President Donald Trump, in response to the Parkland massacre, has suggested arming teachers as a way to deter possible threats, while the National Rifle Association has also pushed for more armed guards in schools.

Trump has frequently suggested in response to mass shootings that more law-abiding people with firearms could help stop a shooter and the head of the NRA has repeatedly suggested the same. However, Israel's announcement Thursday suggested that even if a person is armed, trained and available to help, that may not stop a mass killing that unfolds in a matter of minutes.

The deputy's decision to remain outside breaks with police tactics for responding to active-shooting incidents. Ever since the 1999 attack at Colorado's Columbine High School, authorities have emphasized the importance of pursuing the attacker or attackers quickly in an effort to eliminate the threat and prevent additional deaths.

"Columbine resulted in new approaches in which patrol officers are being trained to respond to active shooters as quickly as possible," the Police Executive Research Forum, a think tank backed by major-cities chiefs, wrote in a 2014 report.

Of course, this approach brings with it inherent issues, the report continued, because "a faster response is more dangerous to responding officers. Patrol officers who quickly move to confront an active shooter face a high likelihood of being shot themselves."

Officers involved in responding to these shootings have later described the terror they felt. A report released by the Justice Department after the San Bernardino, California, terror attack quoted an officer who described checking room after room in the conference center where the shooting occurred, expecting to find the shooters behind the final doors.

"I don't want to say I made peace, but I was ready to go," the officer said. "We got into one room, and it was empty. We had a quick breath, and in we went to the last room. I was never so excited to not see anybody."

Reviews like that Justice Department study are regularly conducted after mass shootings, allowing officials to study how officers responded in order to determine what others can improve upon. Following the shooting rampages at the Washington Navy Yard, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and the Virginia Tech campus, authorities reviewed what they did and sought ways to improve future responses.

Peterson is mentioned as part of a 2016 social services agency investigation into Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old identified by police as the gunman. According to a Florida Department of Children and Families report detailing that investigation, Peterson was approached by investigators and "refused to share any information . . . regarding [an] incident that took place with" the teenager.

Berman reported from Washington.
 

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Im pretty sure there is nothing this cop could have done with a 9 mm and the kid is blasting an AR - Israel is a grand standing clown - jew would have ran himself
 

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Im pretty sure there is nothing this cop could have done with a 9 mm and the kid is blasting an AR - Israel is a grand standing clown - jew would have ran himself

ROTFLMAO!!!!! Oh, the irony. You may be right about that, unfortunately, that's kinda what he signed up for, and one could make that argument even more forcefully for Twittler's incredibly stupid suggestion of arming teachers, 76% of whom are women. If you think a trained cop with a 9mm couldn't done anything, how about a pistol packing granny I'M pretty sure you're an anti-Semitic asshole.
 

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Lmao
 

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Perfect example as to WHY we shouldnt trust the government to protect us, and that why we have the right to protect ourselves.... Unless its in a "Gun Free Zone", or "Safe Space", or a Liberal City with their strict gun laws ...
 

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Perfect example as to WHY we shouldnt trust the government to protect us, and that why we have the right to protect ourselves.... Unless its in a "Gun Free Zone", or "Safe Space", or a Liberal City with their strict gun laws ...

Hey NFL,

Obama was President for 8 years. How come this gun crap was never discussed then? I'm kind of new to politics.
 

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Hey NFL,

Obama was President for 8 years. How come this gun crap was never discussed then? I'm kind of new to politics.

I know, how you feel, Im new to it as well. Didnt they control everything the first couple years? Isnt that how they passed that crappy Obamacare crap to begin with?
 

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I know, how you feel, Im new to it as well. Didnt they control everything the first couple years? Isnt that how they passed that crappy Obamacare crap to begin with?

I remember the Orlando night club shooting. Obama was President. Nobody said a word.

Oh well
 

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The FBI, County Sheriff's office, and this deputy all failed to stop this. Makes me want to turn in my guns.
 

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Cowardly Bastard.
 

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Im pretty sure there is nothing this cop could have done with a 9 mm and the kid is blasting an AR - Israel is a grand standing clown - jew would have ran himself


Shooter was occupied targeting students at one time stood firing doswn into a class that had typhoon strengthened glass, kept shooting even thought the glass did not break, he was not taking cover at any stage , many times he stopped to reload b, he was easy prey for a cop who had worked there years and new the layout of the school, the cop could have sneaked up on him at will and taken him out, and saved lives, and saved us from seeing his horrible face and that attorney licking his balls.

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She is sicker than the shooter.
 

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Look at this bitch.s face, her anger is at society she blames society. It was society's fault, society made him a murderer.
 

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I'll play Devil's Advocate as I'm probably the only guy here that's been in an active shooter scenario where people died. When a shooting happens, it's confusing, hectic, full of chaos and dare I say it...scary as shit.

When the one I was in was reported, the carnage wasn't known and the reports were "multiple shooters" with AK-47s. We didn't know people had been shot at the time and we didn't know who had weapons and how many there were etc. All I had was a 9MM with 30 rounds.

We didn't know where the shooter(s) were or what was happening so five of us hunkered down in a hardened building and protected each other for around 8 hours.

I realize this situation described above is different than the one in Florida but the point is, I see a lot of you acting very courageous behind a keyboard. It's just not that simple and when you're in the moment, you have to have a gigantic pair of balls.
 

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Too bad the kid wasn't a white Christian Republican.....the circle jerk for the left would have been complete.
 

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Im pretty sure there is nothing this cop could have done with a 9 mm and the kid is blasting an AR - Israel is a grand standing clown - jew would have ran himself
Obviously he was the wrong man for the job. It isn't easy to shoot
another human being. If you've never done it you don't know if you can.
 

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Obviously he was the wrong man for the job. It isn't easy to shoot
another human being. If you've never done it you don't know if you can.
some very simple predictive index assessments that can be given in the hiring process. the navy created one for WW2 that allowed them to decide where on a plane you would be seated. If you came up as someone that would personalize dropping a bomb, you wouldn't have that job. These tests are not expensive to administer and would nearly guarantee someone could pull the trigger if necessary. I'm sure the military still uses these today to decide career paths...

(btw i am basing this off my assumption that a predictive assessment was not part of the hiring process)
 

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Im pretty sure there is nothing this cop could have done with a 9 mm and the kid is blasting an AR - Israel is a grand standing clown - jew would have ran himself

Is that why the Sheriff fired him?

I really, really don't get this idea that an AR-15 is some magical device preventing you from being shot.
Just strange.
 

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