This has got me thinking...A coward, but because he was afraid for his own skin? Or afraid of lawsuits? An expression has been coined: Stay Fetal. Was his cowardice a character flaw? Or policy?
I was thinking that same thing. I guess he’ll have a lot of time to figure that out, regardless, his name will forever be linked to cowardice, not institutionalized dysfunction.
I have recently retooled my career to become a nurse (another profession which is placed high on a pedestal) and I find it amazing to watch how decisions are made. No good deed goes unpunished.
Look how long it took the entire police for to finally go into Columbine. He was alone without back up. Did he call it in and was told to wait for back up? If he had drawn his gun parents would have sued for scaring their kids. Perhaps he is a coward. I’d like to hear his story. Could be this is the Sheriff covering his own backside for not doing anything about Cruz years ago.
As a sworn officer, isn't he shielded from lawsuits for what he does under color of authority?
If not, every surviving family member should individually sue him.
The courts may, or may not, say that this "man" who was hired explicitly to protect had no "duty to protect".
In which case, one could argue that every penny he took from Broward county was fraudulently obtained...
Either way, if he's too scared to do his job then he is too cowardly to be a police officer.