Why of course, go with the local Sheriff who had this guy in custody a number of times and his department did nothing.
Sounds like an unbiased guy to me.
Depending on how the departments are configured down there, this sheriff could lose his job.
The only way he wouldn’t is if a local police department were the arresting agency that 30 times. That may be the case, so that would nullify my comment about his bias here.
Look, officers get called to the scene where a shooter is, they do not rush the building. They wait until there is a decent crew there and then they methodically clear the building.
In addition, responding officers have vests, some form of long rifle, and other resources at their disposal.
We’re talking about a lone ranger officer on a big campus with only a side-arm.
He didn’t act any differently than first single officers showing up at a mass shooting in a large building.
That sheriff either knows that or he is flat ass lying. And if he doesn’t know it, what’s that tell you?
I posted this on an earlier thread. I hope people pay attention:
The louder this Sheriff gets, the more questions I have which include:
1) What formal active-shooter training did the Sheriff provide to/mandate for his deputies, especially those assigned to schools?
2) Did this Deputy complete any such training? If so, when? If not, why not?
3) Why was this Deputy assigned to the school? Was it his seniority and he chose it, or was he put there to ride out until his retirement because of any disciplinary/problem history?
4) Was this Deputy given any kind of “stand down” order?
If anyone thinks my intent is to make excuses for this Deputy, it is NOT.
I think there may be more, higher, layers of this onion that need to be peeled.
The fact that this Sheriff came out so publically throwing his now former Deputy under the bus, so far as to say he “makes me sick” was a big red flag and unprofessional, and smells to me of someone trying to deflect blame.
Same thing I was told by the Admin at my kids’ school after Sandy Hook. Same thing I’m told as an employee for the last 3 decades. Same thing I know as growing up in a cop and fireman family.
Life isn’t TV. So many posters don’t get that.
The Broward County Sheriff was on the CNN "town hall" claimed that the NRA lady was not "standing up for the students" unless she wanted "less weapons," whatever that means. See VIDEO - see sheriff at 4:10
As you and others have posted, looks like a lot of official statements are CYA-motivated. There were a lot of moving parts going on during the shooting.