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Stoneman Douglas cop resigns; sheriff says he should have 'killed the killer'
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ^ | February 22, 2018 | Stephen Hobbs and Scott Travis

Posted on 02/22/2018 3:43:02 PM PST by PJ-Comix

he police officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing the 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.”

Peterson, 54, came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz entered the school with an AR-15 rifle and killed 14 students and three educators on Valentine’s Day.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: browardcounty; coward; donutwatch; education; flschoolshooting; leo; parklandshooting; police; resignation; schoolshooting
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To: PJ-Comix

This is more wrong from the national media: They are burying the lede: He is RETIRING with a taxpayer funded lifetime pension. For a bald faced act of COWARDICE. And the national media isn’t mentioning it. This should be THE LEDE!!!


41 posted on 02/22/2018 4:10:53 PM PST by VideoPaul
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To: Tamatoa

It’s not the same Scott Peterson.....


42 posted on 02/22/2018 4:16:19 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: TomGuy

Evidently all the ‘adults’ in this school district are crazy deep state/commie. Maybe these poor kids will recognize the rot their parents have brought down upon their heads.


43 posted on 02/22/2018 4:16:26 PM PST by txhurl (The Final Thunderdome: Two Americas enter, One America leaves.)
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To: leakinInTheBlueSea

I don’t think so. The SRO resigned, likely after he was told either that or be fired.

It seems pretty clear, the SRO quickly became a coward when the s**t hit the fan.


44 posted on 02/22/2018 4:16:43 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: PJ-Comix

Apparently it’s not so outlandish to think of having people with guns on campus to protect the kids after all.......


45 posted on 02/22/2018 4:17:32 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Supposedly they have surveillance video of the guy standing right outside the building where the shooting occurred while it was occurring.....


46 posted on 02/22/2018 4:19:12 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Reports coming out - he was “handing a matter with a female student”, then took up a position OUTSIDE the building WHILE THE SHOOTING WAS GOING ON, did not enter the building.

A school resource officer from another school who ran toward the gunfire ran past the cop who was taking shelter behind a concrete post outside the building.

People died because the cop didn’t do his job.


47 posted on 02/22/2018 4:24:41 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: PJ-Comix
The Sheriff scolded Dana Loesch at the town hall when she said police agencies had been contacted 39 times about the shooter.

He called it “fake news”.

He clarified that today - HIS AGENCY (alone) was ONLY contacted 23 times.

Stupid cop.

48 posted on 02/22/2018 4:28:08 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Hey, but all of those officers made it home that day.


49 posted on 02/22/2018 4:36:18 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: bgill

“Was he armed or unarmed? If he was unarmed, what was he supposed to kill him with, a pencil?”

“Viggo Tarasov: John is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will... something you know very little about. I once saw him kill three men in a bar... with a pencil, with a f*****g pencil. Then suddenly one day he asked to leave. It’s over a woman, of course. So I made a deal with him. I gave him an impossible task. A job no one could have pulled off. The bodies he buried that day laid the foundation of what we are now. And then my son, a few days after his wife died, you steal his car and kill his f***** dog.”


50 posted on 02/22/2018 4:39:28 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: TexasGator

I thought I did... but it was brief. I must have thought a summary was the article. Then, a few seconds later, someone posted another article from athe Miami Herald, which had all the info. Don’t know how I could have missed it!


51 posted on 02/22/2018 4:40:31 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (We)
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To: jimmygrace

But the Supreme Court has determined that the popo exist to enforce the law, not to protect citizens.

So, maybe he was planning to arrest the kid when he ran out of bullets.


52 posted on 02/22/2018 4:41:32 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Religion and Politics

” And the kids are mad at the NRA.”

Because the kids didn’t know any better. Now that they know, maybe someone from Fox will interview them about how they feel being betrayed by CNN.”


53 posted on 02/22/2018 4:41:51 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: Religion and Politics

” And the kids are mad at the NRA.”

Because the kids didn’t know any better. Now that they know, maybe someone from Fox will interview them about how they feel being betrayed by CNN.”


54 posted on 02/22/2018 4:42:27 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Saying other side of 45 acres is misleading

Half the school is athletic fields and parking

The buildings are less than ten acres so he wasn’t that far away if at another end of buildings area plus he had an ez go

Most SRO guys are up front in my experience thoug some act as errand people for front office and some patrol the halls


55 posted on 02/22/2018 4:44:26 PM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: wardaddy

Once I read further info, it became apparent that Deputy Dog was right outside, not on the other side of the bleachers.


56 posted on 02/22/2018 4:47:01 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (We)
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To: Arm_Bears

What possible reason could there be for pushing out video surveillance on a 20-minute delay?

I’m betting it was someone’s PC related reason, privacy....or on lawyer’s orders, like to review it first.


57 posted on 02/22/2018 4:48:13 PM PST by citizen (President Trump: HeÂ’s combined The Art of the Deal with AlinskyÂ’s Rules For Radicals. Game over.)
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To: fishtank

nah, use the pic of the other Scott Peterson. He was a cop.


58 posted on 02/22/2018 4:50:19 PM PST by citizen (President Trump: HeÂ’s combined The Art of the Deal with AlinskyÂ’s Rules For Radicals. Game over.)
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To: PJ-Comix

the Sheriff should resign as well.. or be fired. He seems more intent on shining his pretty stars on his shirt than admitting his gang can’t shoot straight much less at all.


59 posted on 02/22/2018 4:54:34 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix
After watching the guy on CNN, I would say be very, very wary before you TRUST this damn Sheriff's word on what happened. He's throwing people under the bus, right and left, trying to cover up his own malfeasance.
60 posted on 02/22/2018 4:56:26 PM PST by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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