Posted on 02/22/2018 12:52:57 PM PST by Fido969
The Broward County sheriff on Wednesday defended his offices response to one of the deadliest school shootings in American history amid questions over whether some of his deputies hung back instead of pursuing the gunman accused of killing 17 people.
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Sheriff Israel also said that the only armed guard at Stoneman Douglas High, Deputy Scot Peterson, never discharged his gun during the shooting.
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Tim Burton, a Coral Springs police officer assigned to a nearby elementary school, responded to the shooting. He said in an interview on Wednesday that he had seen Deputy Peterson in a Stoneman Douglas High parking lot, where at least one school employee believed the gunman might be.
Deputy Peterson was seeking cover behind a concrete column leading to a stairwell, said Officer Burton,
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This story will be talked about, to distract from the real story, namely that the police deliberately ignored that Cruz was a psycho. They didn't WANT to have to arrest a Hispanic teen. They apparently kept their crime statistics down by IGNORING incidents.
Meanwhile there are professional LEOs guarding Scot Peterson. The #BrowardCoward gets better security than the children did.
He’s in his own home. Under police protection. Presumably by professionals who won’t run away if their protectee is attacked.
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