Posted on 02/22/2018 8:25:56 PM PST by conservative98
The sheriff’s deputy who failed to engage the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School “believed he did a good job” because he called in the location of the massacre and gave a description of the shooter, a top union official said Thursday.
School resource officer Scot Peterson, who resigned in disgrace from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, was “distraught” about shooting that killed 17 people — but believed he did his duty, according to the president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association.
“He believed he did a good job calling in the location, setting up the perimeter and calling in the description (of Cruz),” said the union official, Jim Bell.
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In other incidents there have been active situations going on in a building and the cops would not enter until enough backup had arrived. I thought this was the usual method.
I won’t say what is is I do for a living, but up here in Alaska, I have been told several times that no one is available to respond, and if people aren’t bleeding, it will be a few hours.
No. I’m not trusting in the police to protect me and mine.
Too many posts for me to read them all. Just one question. Has anyone gotten around to suggesting Peterson should have shot the gun out of Cruz’s hand? Maybe from around the corner, using a bank shot off the fire extinguisher?
More cores from that particular rifle ammo will blow through an attacker and hit bystanders. A pistol is far better for use inside a building. That still stands, if the attacker is wearing body armor (first hitting round buys at least a fraction of a second).
Those rifles are pretty fashion accessories, though. So tacticool.
And now this donut eating louse gets to retire at 60k a year
I know....irony much?
A deputy sheriff assigned as a school resource officer
Not much of a resource
How far was that room from a cover spot?
If it was 30 feet or more, the down low idea may or may not work. It’s also an iffy situation to hit the target you want to at that range with a handgun.
In other words, even one classroom length away, the shooter could have taken him out with one shot, and he would have had to fire three or four and hope for luck.
And if we’re talking two rooms, it would be more like 60 feet away.
I didn’t say it was a requirement that single officers wait. I said that they just don’t go rushing in without backup. You go rushing in the front door of a big building, and the shooter goes out the back and disappears. You need at least two to prevent this.
Folks, you go ahead and blame this guy and make his life miserable. I don’t think you’re being realistic.
The shooter was walking around trying to shoot anyone he could. Anyone within shooting distance of this guy was already in grave danger.
The scenario that you describe just is not plausible. If there were students that could be caught in a cross fire, they would have already been targets.
And the chances of someone a floor above, a floor below, or outside being hit is minuscule compared to the likelihood of the shooter being able to walk to the next room and kill people hiding inside, if given time to do so.
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/966877066376265729
Here's a tweet from Jake Tapper of all people
I’m going to hit the hay tonight.
I’ll come back tomorrow.
Good night.
The perp got away because police were watching video that was on a twenty minute delay
They didn’t even notice until almost an hour later
We cannot know all the loose ends here, and it gets really tiresome watching some arm chair quarterbacks act as if they can.
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This is what you are arguing? That it was his job to be useless?
He is the one guy with a gun. And he is trained to use it.
So what if he only had 10 rounds?
What would you be saying if it was one of your kids that got killed at that school?
He’d been a resource officer since 2009
I say he’s fat and sloppy and has been for at least a decade
He’s a 33+ year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, so yes, that language is pretty much unheard of...I have NEVER heard this type of thing before.
Again, the facts aren’t all in, but for a Sheriff to speak this way about an outgoing deputy....stinks like hell to me. My gut tells me the SO has knowledge and/or a hand in this thing.
Only one fire-extinguisher? What a slouch! “:^)
It’s been a long day folks.
I’ll come back tomorrow and discuss this with you.
Thanks for the responses.
Honest Nigerian
École Polytechnique massacre in 1989 in Montreal. A girl was killed along with 13 other women in the school.
Maryse Leclair, 23, was the eldest of four girls. Her parents were Pierre and Louise Leclair. “Pierre cried and stopped and cried again — you die inside — there’s nothing to say in a case like this.” Leclair was the first victim whose name was known. Her father, Montreal Urban Community police director of public relations, stumbled into a police officer’s worst nightmare. He spoke to the media outside the engineering building about a gunman killing women, then went inside and found his daughter dead on the floor.
In 89 the Canadian police surrounded the building and did not make entry as he shot till he got tired. Think he would gone in if he knew his daughter was inside? If you would for yours, you do for others kids.
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