H/T Laz...
Posted on 02/24/2018 4:17:07 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Full Title: The Broward Sheriff's Office Received Two Calls That Nikolas Cruz Was A Potential School Shooter. They Never Contacted Him.
The sheriff's office received at least 18 calls about Cruz's violent behavior and arsenal of weapons from 2008 to 2017. One warned he was "a school shooter in the making," and another said he "planned to shoot up" the school.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office had received two calls — one as recently as November 2017 — informing them that Nikolas Cruz was a potential school shooter who possessed an arsenal of weapons, according to call records provided to BuzzFeed News.
Neither of the calls led to any direct intervention by the sheriff's office. Information from one of the calls in 2016 — warning authorities that Cruz planned to shoot up his high school — was forwarded to the school resource officer, Scot Peterson. Peterson resigned following the revelation that he stood outside the building and did not attempt to stop Cruz from opening fire on students and teachers Feb. 14.
These tips are among at least 18 calls the sheriff's office received from 2008 to 2017 about Cruz's violent behavior, mental health issues, and possession of weapons and hate-related symbols. The sheriff's office found that Cruz's reported behavior did not violate any policies.
On Nov. 30, 2017, a caller told the sheriff's office that Cruz was a "school shooter in the making" and that he was collecting guns and knives, records show. The caller was concerned that Cruz "will kill himself one day," adding that he wanted to join the army and that his weapons were being kept at a friend's house.
A deputy contacted the caller, located in Massachusetts, but no report was initiated. After the shooting, the deputy told authorities that he had referred the caller to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office.
Katherine Blaine — the cousin of Cruz's mother, Linda Cruz — requested that police recover rifles from Cruz after calling the sheriff's office on Nov. 1, 2017, the day of Linda Cruz's death. After a deputy responded, a close family friend agreed to take the firearms and no report was initiated. In interviews with law enforcement after the shooting, Blaine has denied knowledge of any actual firearms and has denied requesting the guns be taken away from the residence. She told authorities that she was only aware of BB guns at the time.
On May 2, 2016, the Broward sheriff's office received "third-hand" information that Cruz "planned to shoot up" his high school. The tip, from a neighbor's son, said that Cruz had posted a picture of himself with guns on Instagram. A deputy, who got in touch with the anonymous caller, determined that Cruz possessed knives and a BB gun. The information was forwarded to Peterson, who was the school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas.
Two years later, Peterson stood outside the high school building for four minutes and did "nothing" while Cruz went on his bloody rampage, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a press conference Thursday. "He never went in," Israel said. After the shooting, Peterson was put on unpaid leave and has since resigned. In 2014, he was named school resource officer of the year for the City of Parkland district, a position he had been in since 2009. It is unclear if Peterson ever acted on the information he was sent by the sheriff's office in 2016.
The sheriff's office has initiated an internal affairs investigation and a review of the apparent inaction following both calls about Cruz being a potential school shooter.
At least six of the calls received by the sheriff's office were related to Cruz's possession of weapons. In 2016, a peer counselor told a school resource officer that Cruz had possibly ingested gasoline in an attempt to kill himself and was cutting himself. Records show that Cruz indicated he wanted to purchase a gun for hunting and that he possessed hate-related communications and symbols. The school resource officer initiated a report and the school said it would conduct a threat assessment on Cruz after indications that he suffered from depression. The sheriff's office found his behavior did not violate policy.
Other calls to the sheriff's office suggested a pattern of violence, anger problems, and erratic behavior, as frequently reported by his mother, Linda Cruz. From 2010 until November 2016, Broward County sheriff's deputies responded to at least 36 emergency 911 calls from the home where Linda Cruz lived with her two sons, Nikolas and Zachary.
In 2014, Cruz was reported to have shot a chicken with an airsoft rifle. In one incident, Linda Cruz alleged that he had thrown her against the wall because she took away his Xbox, while in another call she said that he had hit her with a vacuum cleaner hose.
Here are the call records that the Broward sheriff's office received about Nikolas Cruz:
(PDF file to download)
Time for Israel to resign. But that would only strengthen the legal cases against him. As sheriff he will have more legal resources to protect him, once resigned it is likely less.
Glad to see he can live with himself.
—— the system is the problem-—
The Broward county vision as a utopian subtropical reality is destroyed by the reality of death and mayhem caused by the failure of government to function
My God.
And this WHOLE TIME the Media is blaming the NRA and the 2nd amendment.
Just like Trump and Russia, Russia, Russia instead the Witch Hillary and all her crime.
It truly is like we are living in a FAKE WORLD.
H/T Laz...
Someone being Laz.
Laz? Do the voodoo that you do!
“Broward L/E should be terminated at once....starting with that half-***ed sheriff.”.........
Hitlary wouldn’t allow that.
Stick all this in the locals and David Hogg’s face.
Which is why the the 2nd amendment was created. To keep a free state. Free from tyranny and malfeasance.
Here’s the back story......
Broward county Liberal Politicians didn’t want the Stats to show that they were arresting “minority Juveniles” and as such they had in place a new program where they cowered the Police and Sheriffs into lowering the “arrested minority juvenile” number by ......wait for it...... NOT arresting minority juveniles....Brilliant, eh???..
SO they went to the kids house 39 times and had to walk away to adhere to Liberal policy.... the kid has a Hispanic last name and as such they couldn’t do anything to him lest it reflect badly on Hispanics.
So Liberal policies castrated willing Police to tow the deadly Dem Policy and have gotten more kids killed.
It does appear that they are nurturing these people along, doesn’t it?
Well done. As the days pass by and the leaks dribble out, Laz may need to enlarge his flow chart to handle the complete level of disregard for human life.
Hogg and his ilk will put their fingers in their ears to further clog up their pea-brained heads.
Governor Scott needs to call for the sheriff to resign. ASAP. This is ridiculous. I bet he won’t because he’s running for the Senate.
Laws without morals are useless.
http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/news/Otar%20Kakhidze%20-%202010.pdf
It’s obvious that you don’t understand how Rat machine politics work. Rats don’t resign nor are they fired.
When Rats fail, they fail upwards, like Susan Rice failing upwards from UN ambassador to National Security adviser, after Begazhi.
Israel should be promoted to Attorney General of Florida.
But some of us are willing to blame Mother Russia on this one if the suspicious are ever verified. They were not exporting their healthy babies and children for adoption.
Some here and others on the autism boards have commented on Nikolai’s facial structure in combination with his social skills, severe aggression, and behavior.
It is in line with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Many of the Russian adoptees -15-25 years ago have aged into non-functioning violent (FAS) teens and adults. Depending on the severity and whether secondary issues popped up, (FAS) is not very fixable with meds or therapy.
His birth name? MaDrankk Stolichnaya!
Russia, Russia, Russia
Darn it........you’re right. I keep on forgetting that.
Democrat families of the victims will blame guns. blame guns, blame guns & blame guns.
They will hug the Rat-faced sheriff for all he’s done and not done that got their beautiful daughter or favorite son murdered at Parkland.
He’s not up for election until 2020.
If I could also just add this call transcript someone made to the FBI in attempting to report concerns about Nikolas Cruz. Very interesting,
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/FBI-transcript-02-23-2018.pdf
About half way down the caller mentions the man Cruz was currently staying with after befriending his son who is also on instagram and how he won’t return any phone calls. Mentions something about the guy offering to invest 25k for Nikolas. I believe it stated that will be a recurring amount he will be receiving. I’m still in the middle of reading it. I am assuming he/she is obviously referring to the Sneads.
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