Posted on 02/23/2018 9:41:07 AM PST by conservative98
The Florida sheriff’s deputy who resigned in disgrace after doing nothing during last week’s massacre is seen in a 2015 video touting the crime prevention skills of school resource officers — like himself.
Scot Peterson stood by an entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for more than four minutes after the shooting started, but “he never went in,” Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told reporters.
The deputy was suspended without pay pending an investigation, then resigned. When asked what Peterson should have done, Israel said he should have “went in, addressed the killer, killed the killer.”
But in 2015, Peterson urged Broward County schools to keep the jobs of school resource officers, who were provided lodging in trailers as part of their perks.
“These colleagues work hard. We are crime prevention, an audit report will never show how much we prevent,” he said in response to a county official who cited an audit that discredited the program’s value, according to the Sun Sentinel.
“I’ve been a police officer for 30 years and I’ve been a school resource officer for 25 years. Go Eagles, by the way,” Peterson said during his introduction to the board, referring to the school mascot. “It’s a crime prevention program.”
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“And right there I knew, because I’ve been at that school for many years, I knew right when I heard the cafeteria, you know when you get the hairs on the back of your neck going up, I said, ‘That never goes off,’” he said.
“So I ran into my trailer, I grabbed my firearm and my ID and my shorts and my sneakers and I ran over to the cafeteria. As I got to the cafeteria, sure enough, there were four males inside the cafeteria,” he continued.
“They saw me peeking through the glass, they obviously fled. I chased them, I’m getting older, but I started chasing them, I identified who I was and as ironic as it may seem, they ran right towards my trailer.
“So they ran past, jumped over the fence, I jumped into my car, I apprehended two of them … threw them in the back, kept going, grabbed the other two,” he said.
He also described another “chilling” incident when he heard banging on the front door and a woman yelling that there was an armed man wearing a ski mask.
“So I ran, put some shorts on, ran out with my firearm, while I’m running to the school, I’m contacting Coconut Creek police, we set up a perimeter,” he said.
“Long story short, we caught the individual when he ran across the Coconut Creek Parkway and he was hiding near a bank.”
This “cop” ought to be tried for assisting with the murders.
Because that is exactly what he did.
OK that’s going overboard...
Knock it off
Believe it or not, he probably followed DOCUMENTED PROCEDURES while waiting for backup to arrive.
Granted- he should have gone in. I would like to think I would have gone in,... but he did not “assist” the murders.
“We are crime prevention, an audit report will never show how much we prevent,”
It was a great job until the day he was actually expected to do the work.
Instead of calling president Trump names and attacking the NRA the irate parents should be mounting lawsuits against the FBI,
the county Sheriffs department, the school administrators and this coward.
".....seems dirty Harry here ran out of nerve"
Believe it or not, he probably followed DOCUMENTED PROCEDURES while waiting for backup to arrive.
UGH, a place to sleep the day away.
The story is bogus. There is no trailers for the SROs they are regular cops with additional training. I live in Broward County and have worked for the Police Dept in m city as a Pension Trustee. When school is not in session the cops revert to being part of the street crime division. They are paid by the school board 40% and by the city 60%....In my town we have 2 SROs in our High School.....an always have....
He is guilty of not being a hero when he could have been. Clearly the cops and the FBI failed the people in this case. That is why arming actual teachers make so much sense. They do not see stopping the shooter as a job.
Kept having to put his shorts on ??? This whole incident and lame excuses is on the Sheriff Scott Israel IMHO ...... State and Federal justice departments need to probe his department with prejudice . Wait a minute I’ve got to “go put my shorts on” .....
Especially in his case.
I guess the only thing we can hope is that he *never* works in any law enforcement or security capacity again.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel needs to resign as well. He should take blame for not doing ANYTHING about this evil guy after getting called out 35+ times after threatening people! Seems like there needs to be a good law enforcement house cleaning in Broward Co. - and school administration too!
And what is it with the name Scot(t) Peterson anyway? Remember the other one?
The sheriff reminds me of the sheriff in Tuscon after the Gabby Giffords shootings, where he was blaming conservative commentators.
The prick just wanted a sinecure to retirement in that democrat behive.
His actions seem cowardly. Self-aggrandizing cop who lives life w/o his shorts on, so he has an excuse not to be the first one on scene. It’s disgraceful, to stand outside by the door for minutes and do nothing while the shooter unloads on innocent kids, killing them. Possibly he was waiting for the killer to kill himself, or run out of ammo, and then make the big play in cuffing him.
If he had numerous run ins with cruz at the school, and there was video evidence (on 20 minute delay) of illegal activity by cruz that the deputy then despoiled, then yes, he did assist in those murders.
The most generous thing you can say about the deputy is that he's a coward.
The sheriff should resign, too.
Kept having to put his shorts on ??? This whole incident and lame excuses is on the Sheriff Scott Israel IMHO ...... State and Federal justice departments need to probe his department with prejudice . Wait a minute I’ve got to “go put my shorts on” .....
He was begging the school board to keep his on-campus housing because he could relax and take his shorts off or on.
I’m wondering if he was in his underwear or needed to put his underwear on?
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