Posted on 03/04/2018 1:57:25 AM PST by MilesVeritatis
[Full headline:] "If Sheriff Israel is the “amazing” leader he says he is, he will release videos of his deputies’ actions during Parkland shooting"
It’s imperative that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel release video recordings of what his deputies did, and didn’t do, outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while Nikolas Cruz was on a killing spree inside.
First, Israel himself has said that the public needs to know this information. He’s right, and he should accommodate the people on whose behalf he and his deputies work. This is an extraordinary case in which his department bears a large share of responsibility for Cruz getting as far as he did without interference. Warning signs about Cruz’s dangerous mental state had come to the department’s attention over at least a decade.
Instead, Israel refuses to release the recordings, arguing that they are exempt from the state’s public record laws. He says that they reveal security plans and are part of ongoing investigations.
Reveal security plans? Nonsense. By the sheriff’s own admission, whatever security plans the Broward Sheriff’s Office had in place failed horribly when Cruz killed 17 people and injured 15. On Feb. 22, Israel disclosed the shocking information that school resource officer Scot Peterson stood outside for four minutes while the Cruz was inside, firing an AR-15.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
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- Aiding and Abetting
The legal term “aiding and abetting” means helping another person commit a crime. Even if they do not participate in the actual crime itself, a charge can be brought against anyone who directly helps someone else in the commission of a crime. A person is considered guilty of aiding and abetting if he willfully “aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures” the commission of a crime.
When a person has knowledge of an illegal plan and takes intentional actions to encourage or facilitate that plan, aid, promote, or instigate a felony, prosecutors can charge that person as an aider and abettor.
If a person at the scene of a crime becomes aware that a crime is being committed and takes steps to encourage, facilitate or promote its occurrence,the judge or jury can still find that individual guilty of aiding and abetting. Actions taken to encourage or promote the criminal activity prior to the crime itself are considered the same as actions committed during the crime.
Unlike the crime of accessory after the fact, in which someone aids another person who commits a criminal act, the crime of aiding abetting also includes anyone who willfully gets someone else to commit a crime on their behalf. Accessory after the fact
- Accessory after the fact
... is assisting a felon, after they have committed a crime. A violation this law occurs when someone assists a perpetrator after he/she has committed a felony by aiding in his/her escape from arrest, trial, conviction and/or punishment. Penal Code 32 PC is the California law that defines what it means to be an accessory after the fact, also known as “AATF.”
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Every individual whose signature or initials are on documentation which did not respond effectively &/or appropriately to the numerous red flags raised against Nikolas Cruz needs to be held accountable for allowing Cruz to walk free repeatedly and and to ultimately massacre the students and faculty in Parkland.
Progressive's need to be directly put on notice and held accountable for their failures.
I would agree there. I have never heard such a liar on TV from his earliest press briefing. His words were like-” I can’t tell you-I reserve the right to change/amend anything I said.”
Picture of a man in love with his on voice!
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