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Parkland school gunman was searched every morning at Stoneman Douglas
Sun-Sentinel ^ | 7/26/19 | By Megan O'Matz

Posted on 07/26/2019 10:06:21 AM PDT by NohSpinZone

The former student who later shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was such a threat in school that he was searched every morning for weapons, new testimony shows.

The extraordinary measure followed an earlier decision to bar Nikolas Cruz from taking a backpack to campus after he talked of suicide and wrote “kill” in a notebook.

The search procedure was revealed in a sworn deposition from Kelvin Greenleaf, the security guard who searched Cruz. The South Florida Sun Sentinel obtained a copy of the deposition this week.

"Never found a weapon on him,” Greenleaf explained in the testimony July 11. “I think we got concerned when, I think, we found out he drank bleach, tried to hurt himself or something like that, the kid. That’s when we started, like, having the kid come in every morning to be searched by me, but never found a weapon on the kid, never.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; florida; parkland; pnikolascruz; shooting; stonemandouglas
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Failure at so many levels. Nobody could say that they didn't see this coming.

I hate to be this blunt but the tragedy is that this monster didn't manage to off himself as he threatened to do so many times.

1 posted on 07/26/2019 10:06:21 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
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It’s a shame that he didn’t off that cowardly cop just before offing himself!


2 posted on 07/26/2019 10:13:11 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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"It’s a shame that he didn’t off that cowardly cop just before offing himself!"

I don't think he offed himself. Wasn't he arrested?

3 posted on 07/26/2019 10:15:45 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: NohSpinZone
02.14.19

Here’s a list of gun control laws passed since the Parkland shooting

Here’s a list of gun control laws passed since the Parkland shooting
[Photo: Flickr user Fibonacci Blue]
By Steven Melendez2 minute Read

Thursday marks the first anniversary of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and school employees were killed. Since then, a number of gun control laws have been passed across the country, mostly at the state level. The following laws are among them:

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4 posted on 07/26/2019 10:15:45 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: NohSpinZone

Was he bullied by the other students?


5 posted on 07/26/2019 10:16:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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“They knew that he was a threat. And they subjected all the kids and my daughter to this. Where were their rights?

Freaks have rights but normal folk don't. The parents may not have known about this procedure but you can bet all the students knew. Parents would be shocked to know how many dangerous sickos are in their kids' classrooms who are monitored and followed around all day by school officials. Of course, the school can't do anything about them because state law won't let them. Most times, the school's hands are tied.

So, who frisked him that morning? Gee, you don't think kids are smart enough to hide contraband before the pat downs?

6 posted on 07/26/2019 10:18:26 AM PDT by bgill
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To: NohSpinZone

The problem here is that after having recognized the threat Cruz posed, there was no policy or willingness to keep him away from the school.


7 posted on 07/26/2019 10:19:11 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: BenLurkin

My guess is that he likely was.

But then he murdered a bunch of people, so that makes him a far greater bully in the end.


8 posted on 07/26/2019 10:21:31 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, say the reports. He was bullied. But he was already showing signs of neurosis and paranoia. Kids pick up on those who seem afraid of everything, so they either keep their distance, or they tease that person.

Bottom line is, if you need to search a student for weapons every school morning, then he does not belong at that school.
You can bet all of his classmates knew about it, thus deepening the tension and isolation.
His younger brother should have no contact with the shooter for a few years. Still too impressionable.


9 posted on 07/26/2019 10:23:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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We all know that no amount of money will ever be enough to “compensate/punish” for these murders. But people being what they are; and contingency fee lawyers (most of whom are not entirely human to begin with) needing to earn a buck ....
I am still predicting two possible outcomes:
1) Total damages awarded by the courts will be in the $500 million to $2 billion range
2) State of Florida will somehow bail out the county and school board via some legislative maneuver/s.
This is so sickening - it was not only predictable.
It was engineered to fail spectacularly.


10 posted on 07/26/2019 10:25:08 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: BenLurkin
Was he bullied by the other students?

He did the bullying, he shot them.

11 posted on 07/26/2019 10:27:48 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: NohSpinZone

Evidently he disregarded the “Gun Free Zone” sign and the “Zero Tolerance” school policy.


12 posted on 07/26/2019 10:27:50 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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[[plus the District of Columbia, created ways to temporarily keep guns from dangerous or “at risk” people,]]

HOPEFULLY there is an OBJECTIVE Criteria for determining who is an ‘at risk’ or dangerous person- in other words- hopefully there is a clear cut defining of who is dangerous- and not soemone’s subjective opinions-


13 posted on 07/26/2019 10:29:24 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: JonPreston; chris37; lee martell

Did he shoot the bullies? Or just kids at random?

And had any of the so-called “Parkland survivors’ bullied him?


14 posted on 07/26/2019 10:31:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: JonPreston

The biggest threat to gun owners however is the unconstitutional ‘red flag laws’ which violate due process- all someone has to do to get someone else’s guns taken away is file a complaint and say the person is in their opinion, ‘dangerous’- and police go and immediately remove guns from that person without due process-


15 posted on 07/26/2019 10:31:06 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: NohSpinZone

Definitive proof that progressives/liberals and their bereft ideology kills children! What a shocker! Color me amazed! By banning progressives/liberals, if we can save just one life wouldn’t it be worth it?


16 posted on 07/26/2019 10:31:28 AM PDT by DonPaulJonesII (This time our enemy is in every state, county, city, neighborhood and home.)
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Ban liberal ideology! Do it to save the children! Children good! Liberals bad! Why do liberals hate children?


17 posted on 07/26/2019 10:34:49 AM PDT by DonPaulJonesII (This time our enemy is in every state, county, city, neighborhood and home.)
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To: circlecity

“I don’t think he offed himself.”

Yup, but that was what was a shame.


18 posted on 07/26/2019 10:40:24 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: G Larry

“...there was no policy or willingness to keep him away from the school.”


It is very hard today to expel a kid from school. Schools are required to provide an education to anyone under 18 (21 if they are “handicapped”). Handicapped includes mental illnesses. His talking suicide and writing ‘KILL’ just means he was entitled to extra services from the school district. Had his parents made an issue of it, the daily searching could have been objected to.

I heard of one case where a student threatened to set fire to the school. By the time it was finished, the district was required to pay to send him to a boarding school where he could be closely supervised.

The rules public schools are required by law to follow become exceptionally bizarre. “Handicapped” students, those with IEPs (Individual Educational Program) get first priority when it comes to spending a district’s money. If a regular classroom teacher has to be let go to provide for aides for a handicapped child, so be it.


19 posted on 07/26/2019 10:47:14 AM PDT by hanamizu
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20 posted on 07/26/2019 10:47:45 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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