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Two Miramar SWAT officers suspended for heading to Parkland massacre
Sun Sentinel ^ | 07-Mar-2018 | Linda Trischitta

Posted on 03/08/2018 6:42:25 AM PST by ptsal

When a gunman started shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, two Miramar SWAT team members did what comes naturally: They went to help.

Now they’ve been suspended for it.

The officers did not have permission to respond to the shooting at Parkland on Feb. 14, when 17 people were killed.

And that created an officer safety issue and left them unaccountable for their actions, according to their police department.

But their union reacted differently.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cya; flschoolshooting; parkland; police; response
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To: ptsal

Fired if you don’t go in.

Fired if you do go in.


41 posted on 03/08/2018 8:03:43 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: FirstFlaBn

“Or, as heard in its more familiar form as the anthem of unionized gubermint workers: “not my job.””

I meant nothing like that of course.

If you run off and leave your own area unmanned, it might not turn out well.


42 posted on 03/08/2018 8:05:34 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: OKSooner

“Frankly I think they can.

All they have to do is just jump in the cop car and turn on the ignition and lights and siren and drive...

There they are, ready to help, and in position to kill a murderer since no one else was...

Oh one other thing, they can also tell the boss when they get a chance to...”

And if they actually need these SWAT members at another scene?


43 posted on 03/08/2018 8:07:10 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: ptsal

WTF?

Sheesh.

5.56mm


44 posted on 03/08/2018 8:07:49 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: blu; All
I hereby apologize for a less-than-factual rant. I did read the article, but somehow the fact that these two weren't on duty escaped me. So, they didn't leave their posts, no one had to cover for them, they didn't leave the department 2 men down.

So, instead of being grounded, they should get a write-up in their “permanent record”. Wow, scary stuff!

45 posted on 03/08/2018 8:41:06 AM PST by blu (Save us the time of explaining the links...read the article...unless you're Lazamatz.)
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To: ltc8k6

And if you do leave your “assigned post” and stop 17 children being killed, that would be considered “turn out well!” If they would have stopped it they still would have been suspended ... Broward County sort of “votes” for this kind of thing to happen, don’t they?


46 posted on 03/08/2018 8:47:22 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: ptsal

When seconds count, the police are only minutes...hours...away.


47 posted on 03/08/2018 9:34:42 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: ltc8k6; OKSooner
“Frankly I think they can.
All they have to do is just jump in the cop car and turn on the ignition and lights and siren and drive…
There they are, ready to help, and in position to kill a murderer since no one else was…
Oh one other thing, they can also tell the boss when they get a chance to…” - OKSooner
And if they actually need these SWAT members at another scene?
. . . then they can call them up for emergency duty - given that they were not even on duty at the time.
People being paid to "control the power of the sword” must never be punished for “riding to the sound of the guns.” Certainly not when off duty.

Desperate ills are by desperate measures cured
Or not at all. - Shakespeare


48 posted on 03/08/2018 9:57:52 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Right, you do what has to be done, and you don’t whine about the consequences, such as being discipline by your boss.


49 posted on 03/08/2018 10:11:03 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Okay, just don’t complain about the consequences. Take what comes as a result of your decision.


50 posted on 03/08/2018 10:11:49 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: ltc8k6
Okay, just don’t complain about the consequences. Take what comes as a result of your decision.
The risk of a bias to action is friendly casualties. The actual result of a bias to inaction is known - well, sort of. If the “foreign” deputies hadn’t showed up when they did and gotten medical help into the school when they did, the death toll could have doubled.

The bias to inaction, as it was, may have doubled the death toll compared to “riding to the sound of the guns.” Worst case, an uncoordinated action could have gotten probably no more than one deputy killed, and probably no more than one or two students killed. But that is worst case thinking, had the deputies gone in who were theoretically protecting the school, the probable result would have been the saving of several lives and several nonlethal casualties as well.

I understand that any casualties due to uncoordinated deputy action would have been a scandal. The parents of a student killed as a result would be hard-pressed not to be bitter. But what of the dozen or so rifcleshots aimed deliberately at the same or only possibly different students?

The other scandal in this affair, in addition to the fact that the perp was allowed to become the monster he did, is the fact that the schools are too big. “Bad things start to happen when you get more than 500 to a thousand people together in the same place.”


51 posted on 03/08/2018 10:34:53 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

You got it Basket!


52 posted on 03/08/2018 10:45:34 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Well, now we know that Peterson knew it was gunfire coming from inside the building, which puts a whole new light on the case.

https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/08/radio-calls-indicate-deputy-scot-peterson-heard-shots-inside-building/


53 posted on 03/08/2018 11:27:13 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: ltc8k6
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/08/radio-calls-indicate-deputy-scot-peterson-heard-shots-inside-building/
Internal radio dispatches released by the sheriff’s office Thursday show Peterson immediately fixated on Building 12 and even radioed that gunfire was happening “inside.”
Act so!

That certainly puts things in a different light than Sheriff Israel wanted to project!


54 posted on 03/09/2018 6:11:15 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

” how they felt they had the authority to go over the heads of the Police Dept who were responsible for the area.”

What gives the Police Dept responsibility? Particularly when so many departments fail so miserably?

The “fathers of students” have a God-given responsibility to protect their children - if able. The “Police Departments” are barely able to clean up afterward.


55 posted on 03/09/2018 6:18:13 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Bonemaker

These guys were not on-call for Miramar SWAT at the time. They were over 30 miles away which would be a 45 min-90 minute drive depending on traffic.

They may be from Broward, but were not Cowards.


56 posted on 03/10/2018 9:24:17 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: blu

They didn’t abandon their fellow SWAT team as they were not on-call at the time.
They were over 30 miles away from Miramar -a 45-90 minute drive.


57 posted on 03/10/2018 9:26:24 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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