For what it’s worth department.
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“The delay was simply when we got there, and the Sheriff’s Office and our officers
and other officers from the community went into that building,” Pustizzi said.
“The issue was more of a communication failure on who was reviewing the tape,
letting our guys know that it was a 20-minute delay with what they were reviewing.”
On a radio transmission from the day of the shooting, an officer finally said,
“It’s about a 20-minute delay, they’re following him on video, on the camera…
They have him exiting the building, running south.”
Pustizzi said in the news conference: “There was nothing wrong with their
equipment, their equipment works. It’s just that when the person was reviewing
the tape from 20 minutes earlier, somehow that wasn’t communicated to the officers.”
Broward County School District also clarified on Thursday the high school’s
security cameras do play in real time, but they were rewound 20 minutes that day
to retrace Cruz’s actions, according to WSVN.
So....the confusion was that the police didn’t understand it was a DVR system - already engaged - rather than a direct feed.