Posted on 02/25/2018 7:35:05 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said he had provided "amazing leadership" to his department on Sunday, drawing disbelief from CNN host Jake Tapper.
Tapper pressed Israel during a nearly half-hour interview about the response of his department before and during the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead.
Israel announced Thursday that school resource officer Scot Peterson had been suspended and decided to retire rather than be terminated after learning Peterson failed to enter the school during the massacre and engage the shooter.
Israel also defended the conduct of his department in response to the 18 calls its deputies got about the killer, Nikolas Cruz, including fears he could be a "school shooter in the making." No report was initiated upon that tip.
Tapper asked Israel, who participated in CNN's town hall on guns on Wednesday and called for stronger gun control laws, if he could see how the public would be critical when it saw so many red flags go ignored by the department.
"How could there not even be a report on this one?" Tapper asked.
"If that's accurate, Jake, there needed to be a report and that's what we're looking in to, that a report needed to be completed, it needed to be forwarded to our homeland security or violent crimes unit and they would've followed up on it," Israel said.
Tapper noted Israel's conditional remarks, pointing out it was notes from Israel's own department. Israel responded the officer who handled that situation was on restrictive duty.
"I've exercised my due diligence, I've led this county proudly as I always have," he said. "We have restricted that deputy as we look in to it. You know, deputies make mistakes, police officers make mistakes, we all make mistakes, but it's not the responsibility of the general or the president, if you have a deserter. You look into this. We're looking into this aggressively, and we'll take care of it and justice will be served."
"Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriff's Office about this shooter before the incident?" Tapper asked.
"Jake, I can only take responsibility for what I knew about. I exercised my due diligence. I've given amazing leadership to this agency—" Israel started.
"Amazing leadership? Tapper asked incredulously.
"Yes, Jake. There's a lot of things we've done throughout this—this is—you don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy not going into these deputies received the training they needed—" Israel said.
"Maybe you measure somebody's leadership by whether or not they protect the community," Tapper said. "In this case, you've listed 23 incidents before the shooting involving the shooter and still nothing was done to keep guns out of his hands, to make sure that the school was protected, to make sure you were keeping an eye on him … I don't understand how you can sit there and claim amazing leadership."
Israel said on "16 of those cases," his deputies did everything right and in the five years he had been sheriff, he'd taken the department to a "new level."
"One person didn't do what he should have done," Israel said. "It's horrific. The victims here, the families, I pray for them every night. It makes me sick to my stomach that we had a deputy that didn't go in because I know if I was there, if I was on the wall, I would have been the first in along with so many other people.
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ITEM---Scott Israel signing off on falsified official L/E documents is a criminal RICO case....... as well as an asset forfeiture matter.
ITEM---anyone can file a RICO against Sheriff Israel---you dont need a lawyer---plenty of how-tos on the net.
ITEM—--Sheriff Israel deliberately Ignored Crimes Committed By Students To Meet Obama's Federal Funding Mandates
ITEM—Besides government fraud, misuse of public office, confiscation of tax dollars, etc, it is also possible that Sheriff Israel and other officials of Broward County committed other federal offenses including but not limited to:
<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);
<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.
<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),
<><> 18 U.S.C. §241 (Conspiracies Against Civil Rights)
<><> Mobilization of full investigations centering on Sheriff Israel's involvement in RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the is employed by or associated with an enterprise (2) that engaged in undermining public safety and adversely affected interstate commerce and that (3) Sheriff Israel managed the enterprise (4) through a “pattern” (5) of racketeering activity, and that (6) the taxpayers and children of taxpayers were injured by reason of Sheriff Israel's “pattern” of racketeering activity.
<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
Taxpayers demand investigations by the following agencies commence at once:
<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section
<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.
<><>Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division
<><> U.S. Dept of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security
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In a related story just developing, the wife of Broward County Sheriff has explained that she “is a 10”.
That's why Tapper went "hard."
“amazing leadership”.......
Can be defined in a positive or negative way. So far we are seeing the negative side.
Scratch that. Recent statements indicate that the Broward County Sheriff’s wife has revised her comments to reflect that she “is an amazing 10”, and not merely a 10.
He’s a TOOL of the left, and a political whore to the priciest progressive bidder.
What this whole episode indicates is that the left's dominant strategy, the one they have relied upon since Clinton and Podesta started running for the whathouse of controlling the narrative, is no working. CNN/MSNBC/COMPOST are incapable of seizing the intitiative anymore, however hard they try. It's a public relations nightmare for the left.
The autists on 8chan, etc. have been burrowing away into the background of everyone involved and two narratives emerge:
So, whatever is going on in the background, it appears that the ability of the left to create and dominate a narrative has been disrupted. Follower of Q-Anon would comprehend that that is not accidental, but you can disbelieve Q and anything much about the alleged operation and see that this at least has happened.
So refreshing from our real world self analysis of "what could I have done better?"
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In kindergarten, he was amazing at the hiding part when they played hide and seek.
In the Parkland case, their security system had a dismal record concerning student safety and security that should be brought to public discussion particularly beginning with this school having a so called “gun free zone”.
It did have an officer who may be armed assigned to patrol the multi acre site in a golf cart, but bans guns from the rest of its internal security
Criticism arose when the officer assigned to this duty who was nearing retirement He was reported to arrive late and after Cruz had entered the building but stationed himself outside the large structure and had called for support. Two BCSD officers responded Which and did the same seeming to refusing to enter the building while armed . He then left before Cruz did. Also responding was the Coral Shores PD who entered the building and cleared it. Cruz was captured while fleeing with other students by an alert CSPD officer on the 45 acre campus.
Those laissez faire attitudes strongly suggest examining records of reporting how the bureaucracy at this school handled student vs student, and student vs teacher (Cruz was accused of this) altercations, vandalism, thefts, and drug use. Which are bound to occur were being dealt with.To which a dramatic reduction in disciplinary incidents were reported after a visit by Obama occurred.
Because of these Ding Bat liberal policies it brings up another question. Just how safe and secure are those kids ? There’s a lot of krap that happens; Assaults, fights, thefts, books and items stolen, teachers accosted, kids intimidated....
Examine records reporting how student vs student, and student vs teacher altercations, vandalism, and thefts, which are bound to occur were being dealt with.
Because in an educational unit this size it’s pretty clear their security system failed . In a secure system Cruz would have never gotten inside.
Now that school board has decided to tear down the school which was probably raised by a funding referendums and the grounds house a memorial.
"I do amazing phone response leadership to dangerous shooters in the making"
Amazing: adjective, causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing.
I am amazed, no absolutely astonished at how incompetent Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel was in his leadership.
The word is an adjective for both directions, both positive and negative. His leadership was amazingly incompetent!
Sheriff Israel will never be confused with a street smart cop. He is an enforcer of progressive orthodoxy. He is the manifestation of an armed commissar.
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You nailed it! He’s very dangerous. The Gov. should get rid of him, which by FL law, he can do.
Define amazing.
What you said, X 1000.
Tapper asking appropriate tough questions? What’s going on, not CNN’s normal adgenda?
When you feel the need to say publicly, ‘You give amazing leadership!’, you don’t!
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