Posted on 02/22/2018 8:38:16 AM PST by MeganC
This is important. The school resource officer at Stoneman High School did not intervene at all during the shooting and based upon deduction, I can't find any proof that the SRO responded anytime AFTER the shooting.
Where was this person? Were they on campus as so many authorities seem to have heard (from some guy who was told by some guy that some other guy had heard the SRO was on campus)?
Don't these people sign in or check in for the day? Where's their duty log to show where they were? Why didn't the SRO respond to the fire alarms which would have been heard all over campus? Why didn't the SRO respond when there were shots fired? Why didn't the SRO respond when children could be seen running for their lives?
I don't believe there was an SRO on campus that day and I am firmly believing the Broward County Sheriff's Department and the Broward County Public School District are covering up the fact that there was no one on campus to protect the kids when the shooting rampage began.
They want this inconvenient truth to go away, to be forgotten.
I think people have a right to know why their kids were defenseless that day.
A visual slur on the Irish? For shame! It’s not even St. Patrick’s month yet!
I heard that there were five people who were considered to be security officers of some type. I heard that one of them (was also asst FB coach?), took gunfire himself, blocking the shooter’s access to some students (he died). I don’t know about the others. It seems to be a campus with several buildings, so it might not be realistic to expect that a particular school resource officer was in the right building at the right time, etc.
In Sarasota County, the Sheriff removed half the SRO's on duty at the public schools as a cost cutting measure even though the School Board was paying for 50% of the cost. The board didn't say a word in protest because they are a bunch of cowards and eunuchs.
I'm sure the Sheriff thought their time would be better spent writing parking citations to help support the ever growing welfare state.
Had the same sick thought.
While being everywhere is clearly impossible, being somewhere on campus and responding to the shooting is preferable to being nowhere to be found.
Who was the SRO?
Where was he/she when the shooting started?
What were his/her actions once the shooting started?
Wasn’t intended that way...2/3 Irish myself!
“The only person trained and armed to fight back against an assailant at Stoneman Douglas is its one school resource officer, a Broward Sheriff’s deputy funded by the city of Parkland. But Maxwell said she doesn’t think he was on campus when the shooting happened.
“I have been told by a couple of sources that the SRO was either called off campus responding to something happening or it could have been his day off,” she said. “They are stretched very thin.”
Neither BSO nor school district officials responded to requests for comment Thursday about where the officer was at the time. On Friday, Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said he was told by BSO officials that an officer was at the school but on a different part of campus.”
Living in a society that permits gun ownership requires the naive and defenseless to be armed or protected by armed guardians.
Stop the thread after post 3. He won.
Okay, I stand corrected. Here in Louisiana they are not.
Mr. Hixon was not a Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy working as a school resource officer.
Supposedly a Deputy Peterson was the SRO but aside from some hearsay about Peterson’s location it has not been confirmed exactly where Peterson was that day.
Initial comments had the SRO off campus and then in subsequent comments you could see a lot of equivocating from the Sheriff’s Department and the school district as to where the SRO was.
They were dancing the line of lying to the public while giving themselves some wiggle room to back out of it in case they got caught.
Google Majorie Stoneman Douglas High School and look at it on the map. It’s a huge campus with a dozen or more buildings. The resource officer could have been anywhere on that campus so the fact that they weren’t there exchanging shot with the killer doesn’t mean the SRO was absent.
The school had 1 SRO to cover a 45 acre campus with more than 3000 students. The building where the shooting happened is a 3 story building.
There is no way one person could secure that school. The coach who was killed was also a “security” guard. He was not armed. He died shielding children with his own body.
No serious person could have claimed this school had adequate security even before the shooting.
Typically, and stupidly, in Maryland, SRO’s are unarmed.
This Broward Sheriff is a disaster, and folks are going WAY too easy on him. He should instead be facing resignation demands. Even Dana Loesch mostly gave him a pass last night.
Maybe hiding out with the county cops that visited the perp 39 times BEFORE the event.
If 20% of the teachers had been armed this never would have happened in the first place.
At a Thursday press briefing Sheriff Israel stated that there was an armed security officer on the school campus at the time of the massacre, but he (or she) never encountered the shooter.
There certainly should be an in depth investigation to determine why this armed officer never encountered the killer.
The loosely stated claims that the SRO was ‘elsewhere’ on the campus only popped up a day after the initial statements that the SRO was off campus.
Yet the SRO was wholly absent after the shooting - and I say that given the fact that no one is saying that he was helping to secure the school after the shooting. No one is saying he was on campus immediately after the shooting.
It’s an important question because if the SRO was indeed absent then that makes a serious case for teachers to have the option of concealed carry.
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