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Broward Sheriff's Office Received 2 Calls That Nikolas Cruz Was A Potential School Shooter. [TR]
BuzzedFeed ^ | February 23, 2018 | Tasneem Nashrulla Cora Lewis

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)


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; broward; bso; cruz; parkland; ratfacedsheriff; schoolshooter
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Note: 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. [[Uh oh! Somebody has been keeping secrets or lied to the deputy. Where are all those guns? Why 'the friend' let Niko keep the AR15- to hunt parakeets?]]

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.

[[Somebody's doing some very serious backtracking on what she originally said to the police dispatcher.]]

1 posted on 02/24/2018 4:17:07 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Sherriff met with hildabeast.

https://qanonposts.com/images/b379f9f041e656990a3eb17dc618dbe6a0fc6029b83cac96a0881dde7cb3ed7d.jpeg


2 posted on 02/24/2018 4:30:11 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

This thing gets weirder by the second


3 posted on 02/24/2018 4:34:13 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Someone please add the BSO with prior knowledge of a imminent lethal threat to a local school to the culpability area in Laz’s flow chart.

“8 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.”

D@mn, you can’t get anymore specific than that!

That’s 2 high-pitched shrill alarms made locally to the BSO whereby a known risk to murder Broward school children as been positively identified but ignored.

NO ACTION to stop a murderer! Sheriff Scott Israel should be forced to resign ASAP.

Israel’s own 3 boys just graduated from the Parkland School, he claimed to have loved that school and personally spent countless hours supporting his sons’ athletics - football, lacrosse, track,etc...

Doesn’t Israel give a damn? Or has his rat-faced head been so far up his Clintonian-azz that he is totally blind!


4 posted on 02/24/2018 4:34:42 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: mylife

Well, at least they are coming clean about receiving the calls. That’s a start.

What low expectations...


5 posted on 02/24/2018 4:36:58 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
They received MANY calls, and warnings.
BUT ... they wanted murder of American children
to advance their sedition and for their adrenochrome sales.


6 posted on 02/24/2018 4:39:22 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

The entire gist is that the only way to stop this is to disarm everyone.

Then mental gymnastics that are required to achieve this mindset are astounding.


7 posted on 02/24/2018 4:39:45 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

.....no telling how many calls were actually made to the FBI...we’ve only heard about the ones where people have come forward


8 posted on 02/24/2018 4:40:26 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

9 posted on 02/24/2018 4:40:45 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Why aren’t the locals marching on the sheriff’s office? No bus fare?


10 posted on 02/24/2018 4:41:47 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: huldah1776

“I’m from the Governement and I’m here to help.”


11 posted on 02/24/2018 4:42:31 AM PST by Makana (The thing you seek the most will be found where you least want to look.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

At least 18 calls?

How many were there and why don’t we know exactly? Despite 100’s of dilutions, FL still has one of the most stringent sets of state sunshine laws on the books.


12 posted on 02/24/2018 4:42:52 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Bingo.....


13 posted on 02/24/2018 4:42:59 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Doogle

True. The only reason this BSO information is being exposed is because the newspapers are petitioning records and it’s being leaked from inside the BSO office.


14 posted on 02/24/2018 4:50:14 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: glorgau

Today is what? Day 11?

Digging through the trash, it becomes apparent that the system is the problem.

Bloated pension bound weenies in charge of you and me.

It all reminds me of the film “Brazil”


15 posted on 02/24/2018 4:51:29 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Travis McGee

Wow, well said.


16 posted on 02/24/2018 4:52:00 AM PST by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Well, there’s blood on someone’s hands, but it’s most certainly not the NRA.

Will the newly minted teenage media stars admit it?


17 posted on 02/24/2018 4:52:06 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Related—

Official transcript of Jan 5th call to FBI:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/FBI-transcript-02-23-2018.pdf


18 posted on 02/24/2018 4:52:26 AM PST by Stalwart
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To: mewzilla

39 911 Calls. 39. In our agency, we called that a “frequent flyer” and after that many calls, someone was getting either locked up or MHL’d.


19 posted on 02/24/2018 4:53:13 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Stalwart

“um he’s so into ISIS”. Has that angle ever been mentioned by the MSM? The nutjob White Nationalist guy here in Tally, who has a membership of one in his “militia”, got interviews from all over the world and the MSM ran with that..


20 posted on 02/24/2018 4:56:19 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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