Good thing there was no fire.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Gutless...
Good thing there was no fire.
You can’t be serious. I think I have engaged in rational, and informed, discussion.
But you send me a mediocre link from “Honest Nigerian”.
We FReepers better stick together.
Read the article—so the security guard thinks he did a good job?
This comment reminds me of story a couple years ago about the Navy Captain who surrendered to the Iranian National Guard~even tho he broke protocol, he thought he did a good job too.
Not to mention the fact that he'd worked there for years...he KNEW all of these students, teachers & staff and listened to them being executed. Incomprehensible.
Twink: How utterly ironic that your nasty kneejerk reaction to a homeschooling mother is no different than what we see brayed 24/7 by the liberal media, whose opinion of homeschooling we are all too familiar with.
MetMom: Obviously "Twink" had a visceral reaction to your simple point that violence at Government Schools is yet one more reason to protect your kids by homeschooling them.
By his logic as seen here - "Our kids aren’t safe anywhere" - he makes the point that your kids could also die at home while being homeschooled. Hey, an asteroid might hit your house while homeschool is in session, or a meteorite, or a falling satellite, for cryin' out loud! Maybe the tectonic plate will split in half right under your house ... did you ever consider THAT? Huh? Huh? Didja?
To sum up his argument, there's absolutely no point in protecting your kids from ANY type of harm at all, unless you can protect them from ALL types of harm, and can 100% guarantee they survive into adulthood.
My advice is just ignore his little hit & run on your post. (Some vague quote involving wrestling and getting muddy is coming to mind, but I can't quite place it. Hmm....)
Cowardice.
He was armed, he was their only hope. The one duty that he was trained, that the community depended upon.
He will rue the day for the rest of his life.
Let it be a lesson to those who carry the awesome responsibility of law enforcement.
In truth, you are the only one to protect your family, you cannot depend on law enforcement. You need your weapon to protect your family.
Peterson had been the resource officer at Douglas High School since 2009 and made a base annual salary of $75,673.72 as of 2016, according to sheriff’s office records cited by the Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
That base salary, however, doesn’t include longevity and first- responder bonuses that probably brought Peterson’s non-overtime pay closer to $80,000, according to Bell.
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First responder bonus? Really? More like no responder.
Not buying it.
Making up excuses that he withdrew tactically because he could have killed more people sounds like something CNN would say to blame the NRA.
One could easily say he could have killed the shooter in one shot and saved 17 people. He knew the building, he knew the exits and entrances, and where he could get cover. The problem was, he didn’t even try.
He had a weapon and was trained, he took the job, he knew what was required and knew the risks. It is not a clerk’s job. You are issued a weapon for a reason and you have been through the situation many times, in drills and in your mind. It is combat, and he very well knew he may be called to perform it. None of this is a surprise.
He didn’t even try.
I don’t want to give details, but I had to go in twice to possible active shooter situations. I was ok with it. When I say ok, it meant I knew what I had to do. Thankfully neither of those blew up, but I didn’t know that going in.
But yeah, I was the first one in. So what. I know what I’d do, because I did it.
Don’t look forward to doing it again.
No one wants to die. No one wants to do something stupid, like run into the unknown. But if you don't, who will? This is why some soldiers get a medal and others don't. My father got the distinguished flying cross with 4 oak leaf clusters in WWII. Everything he did was voluntary. He was a belly turret gunner and a bombardier on a B-24. He would have gone in and killed the bastard and spit on his carcass. Some cops are shot in the back of the head eating donuts. Being safe doesn't always save you. This is why someone does something completely heroic and his superiors write him up for going around protocol. You can do the "right" thing, or save lives. He could have very well run into an ambush, but he could have shot the SOB in the face. His choice. I have a feeling, the choice he made is going to "bother" him for awhile.
If the cop knew he was ISIS, maybe he might wait for backup. Knowing he was a pimple faced kid, he probably would have pissed himself seeing a veteran cop coming at him guns abazin.
Compare him to the NRA member who ran to the gunfire in the church shooting at Sutherland Texas.
Stephen Wilford didn’t even take time to load a full magazine, or put on his shoes.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/lies-by-omission-america-morning-news.html
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/video-on-media-lies-and-misinformation.html
If you’ll think about first responders to a mass shooting in a large building, you’ll know that first single officers showing up on scene do not rush the building. One guy? No way!
This explains why the psycho thug stayed in school so long:
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/966854970594287616
Still, even though outgunned (pistol vs rifle) you'd think he'd have gotten off at least a warning shot or two.
The Sheriff blasted Peterson after seeing video and reading Peterson’s own report of his actions during the shooting.
Yeah, the Sheriff may be covering his own butt to some extent, but it sounds to me that Peterson’s actions were not excusable.
That’s not for the kids safety, that’s for school staff, security and police safety, hands up and visible. As far as the kids it would be shooting fish in a barrel moving slowly in a conga line like that, for any shooter who knows “procedure.”
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