Posted on 02/25/2018 10:30:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Today on CNN’s State of the Union, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel slammed critics who have called for his resignation due to a massive failure on the police department’s part to take proactive measures that could have prevented the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting which lead to 17 innocent Americans being killed.
On one of the final questions in the interview, host Jake Tapper read state representative Bill Hager (R-Boca Raton) statement that said, “An investigation by Sheriff Israel into the unfathomable inaction of these deputies will do nothing to bring back the 17 victims the Sheriff was fully aware of the threat this individual presented to his communities and chose to ignore it.”
"What’s your response and will you resign?," Tapper asked.
“It was a shame- Of course, I won’t resign,” the sheriff responded with a defensive tone of annoyance.
“It was a shameful letter. It was politically motivated. I never met that man,he doesn’t know anything about me and the letter was full of misinformation. I wrote a letter back to the governor, I talked about all the mistakes that Hager made in his letter. It was a shameful, politically motivated letter, that had no facts and of course I won’t resign," he continued.
"Of course I won't resign," says Sheriff Scott Israel, after Florida state representative sends letter to Gov. Rick Scott calling for Israel's removal for "neglect of duty and incompetence" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/tQ0ai2G92p— CNN (@CNN) February 25, 2018
The fact that Rep. Hager has never met Sheriff Israel makes little to no difference in this story. Broward County’s Sheriff Department deputies visited the school shooter's home 39 times.There were 18 calls to the police from individuals fearful that the individual in question would one day actually shoot up a school.
One of those calls was heard by Deputy Scot Peterson. As Matt noted, "Peterson was the officer who waited outside of the building and failed to engage Cruz on the day of the shooting. The hooting lasted six minutes; Peterson remained idle for four minutes. He has since resigned after video footage caught him doing nothing as the rampage occurred at the school."
In any organization, leadership starts from the top. All of those facts indicate a serious failure of leadership by Sheriff Israel to protect and defend the public against an obvious threat to society. Yet, when asked about it, Sheriff Israel abdicated all responsibility.
.@browardsheriff to @jaketapper:
"I can only take responsibility for what I knew about... I've given amazing leadership to this agency... you don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy." #CNNSOTU— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) February 25, 2018
Most Americans hearing that would be dumbfounded by such an arrogant statement and at a loss for words. But leave it to Townhall's own Katie Pavlich to find the perfect word to succinctly summarize Sheriff Israel.
WOW: @browardsheriff says he has given “amazing leadership”
to the county and in the Parkland case overall. Delusional.— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 25, 2018
It may not have been Sheriff Israel's fault that the deputy did not go in to the school sooner. It may not have been his fault that the school shooter did not get the help he needed earlier in life. It surely was not his fault that the shooter pulled the trigger. But it is his responsibility to know exactly what is going on in his department and to train his deputies to be prepared at all times, to follow through on all threats to the public, and to protect innocents by making sure menaces to society are not in positions where they can actually hurt law-abiding citizens.
Gov. Scott Can not legally fire him.
This whole shooting is a local issue not a national one.
Dumb local authorities.
Evil twisted local kid.
Coward local cops.
Far as I’m concerned it’s a Broward problem not mine or the whole country.
Astonishing arrogance.
Resigning would be the honorable thing to do, something out of character for this puke.
What other individuals like Niklaus Cruz that are walking the streets of Broward County right now? People who are mentally unstable and have making threats but have been given endless breaks and second chances by the BSO? It is scary to think. People of Broward County, you are not in safe hands. Beware.
Of course he won’t. He’s a democrat, they never admit guilt or take responsibility for their actions.
Plus, he is an elected official. I do not think elected officials should resign under an onslaught by the media.
They have been elected. Let them face election again.
“Sheriff, your department is yellow.
You run it.”
He picked the School Recusal Officer and instructed everyone in his yellow department that when shooting starts to duck and cover...and stay covered!
So very unfortunate. No wonder people are buying arms and ammo in record numbers
Shut your donut hole Israel...your foul breath is coming through my tablet.
Yeah, Broward has over a dozen large "active adult retirement communities". You can guess where the retirees come from.
“Time for President Trump to fire, arrest, interrogate the Sheriff and possibly charge him as co-conspirator.”
That would take an attorney general worthy of the name.pu
...said the wolf to the sheep.
That’s the Florida governor’s job!
Don’t mix federal and state responsibilities, that’s something the left does. we have a dual sovereignty system where power is diffused through federal, state, county, etc. authorities! Be very happy we have that! I think that’s one thing that frustrated Zero, his “Big Plans (Meaning Bill Ayres’s plans!)” really couldn’t be enacted. Zero being the “Constitutional Scholar” that he was thought he was king, dictator, big cheese found out that being Prez is sort of like being Chairman of a big trade association. Yes you can have an effect (mostly negative!) but the members (states, etc) can also tell you to pound sand if you get too intrusive.
The Coral Springs Police Dept knew exactly what to do. BSO deputies were either cowards or clueless as to what to do. A BSO captain ordered a perimeter to be set up. The complete failure of BSO to deal with this crisis in accordance with today’s policing standards can only be blamed on Sheriff Israel. Since he won’t do the honorable thing and resign, he needs to be removed by the appropriate state authorities or he needs to be removed by the voters through a recall effort.
And the stink bridge Israel wears 4 stars as if he were Omar Bradley.
The Buck stops at the lowest levels - while the bucks stop in my coffers...I’m only the guy in charge, what do you sheep expect of this lion???””
He should be eliminated now.
That resource officer was a waste of space. The others that cowered are a waste of space as well. The fact that Coral Springs went in upon arrival says enough.
The Broward County sheriff’s dept is a cowardice entity just collecting a paycheck and probably quite a bit more based on their location.
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