I spoke to my former SRO friend after the shooting. Their protocol is get to the shooter at all cost. They do not stop and help injured, do not assist with evacuation. Get to the shooter ASAP. You find a way to stop him when you get there. That is why the Sheriff is so disgusted with the action the SRO took.
I don’t really believe that.
Single officers who arrive at the scene of a mass shooting in a large building DO NOT rush the building.
Further, officers arriving at the scene of a mass shooting have long rifles of some sort, vests, and other officers on scene in seconds. Then they go in.
Even swat team member enter the facility with as a group with a highly organized method of attack.
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/966877066376265729
Here's a tweet from Jake Tapper of all people
There’s another reason why the Sheriff is rightfully ticked with the SRO.
If you have read the BSO transcripts of the tipsters calls on Cruz you will learn that the calls from 2016 were assigned to the SRO- Peterson.
Those callers had stated Cruz was going to shoot up the school and had the means to accomplish a murdering assault.
The SRO either didn’t investigate Cruz, or he dismissed them. Nothing was done.
And it appears that if the media was not demanding transcripts from BSO under FL Sunshine Laws or BSO officers weren’t leaking information, we would have been none the wiser. I’m sure Sheriff Israel knew all of this when he stood with POTUS acting like a hero in the aftermath.
BSO is much more culpable than the FBI in regard to ignoring an incoming credible lethal threat through the tip line. These threats were in their own backyard and they had visited this same guy way too many times.
Besides, the Sheriff’s triplet sons were graduates of the same MSD school. Had it happened last year, maybe he would have taken the threats more seriously and wanted to protect his own flesh and blood at their high school.