Posted on 02/25/2018 10:30:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Today on CNN’s State of the Union, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel slammed critics who have called for his resignation due to a massive failure on the police department’s part to take proactive measures that could have prevented the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting which lead to 17 innocent Americans being killed.
On one of the final questions in the interview, host Jake Tapper read state representative Bill Hager (R-Boca Raton) statement that said, “An investigation by Sheriff Israel into the unfathomable inaction of these deputies will do nothing to bring back the 17 victims the Sheriff was fully aware of the threat this individual presented to his communities and chose to ignore it.”
"What’s your response and will you resign?," Tapper asked.
“It was a shame- Of course, I won’t resign,” the sheriff responded with a defensive tone of annoyance.
“It was a shameful letter. It was politically motivated. I never met that man,he doesn’t know anything about me and the letter was full of misinformation. I wrote a letter back to the governor, I talked about all the mistakes that Hager made in his letter. It was a shameful, politically motivated letter, that had no facts and of course I won’t resign," he continued.
"Of course I won't resign," says Sheriff Scott Israel, after Florida state representative sends letter to Gov. Rick Scott calling for Israel's removal for "neglect of duty and incompetence" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/tQ0ai2G92p— CNN (@CNN) February 25, 2018
The fact that Rep. Hager has never met Sheriff Israel makes little to no difference in this story. Broward County’s Sheriff Department deputies visited the school shooter's home 39 times.There were 18 calls to the police from individuals fearful that the individual in question would one day actually shoot up a school.
One of those calls was heard by Deputy Scot Peterson. As Matt noted, "Peterson was the officer who waited outside of the building and failed to engage Cruz on the day of the shooting. The hooting lasted six minutes; Peterson remained idle for four minutes. He has since resigned after video footage caught him doing nothing as the rampage occurred at the school."
In any organization, leadership starts from the top. All of those facts indicate a serious failure of leadership by Sheriff Israel to protect and defend the public against an obvious threat to society. Yet, when asked about it, Sheriff Israel abdicated all responsibility.
.@browardsheriff to @jaketapper:
"I can only take responsibility for what I knew about... I've given amazing leadership to this agency... you don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy." #CNNSOTU— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) February 25, 2018
Most Americans hearing that would be dumbfounded by such an arrogant statement and at a loss for words. But leave it to Townhall's own Katie Pavlich to find the perfect word to succinctly summarize Sheriff Israel.
WOW: @browardsheriff says he has given “amazing leadership”
to the county and in the Parkland case overall. Delusional.— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 25, 2018
It may not have been Sheriff Israel's fault that the deputy did not go in to the school sooner. It may not have been his fault that the school shooter did not get the help he needed earlier in life. It surely was not his fault that the shooter pulled the trigger. But it is his responsibility to know exactly what is going on in his department and to train his deputies to be prepared at all times, to follow through on all threats to the public, and to protect innocents by making sure menaces to society are not in positions where they can actually hurt law-abiding citizens.
Fire his ass...NOW!
How is it breaking the law?
President Trump can fire anyone he wants.
“I can only take responsibility for what I knew about... I’ve given amazing leadership to this agency... you don’t measure a person’s leadership by a deputy.”
He said, and then went to the men’s room and did another line of cocaine.
A county sheriff is not a member of the executive branch of the federal government! A county sheriff isn’t even a member of state government. In most states the governor wouldn’t have any authority over a county sheriff, in turns out in Florida the governor does.
Do you not take civics in junior high?
Stocks, gibbet, and gallows.....
This MF is doubling down on his communist Jew privilege.
Destroy or concede the field.
Pretty simple.
He’s in bed with the dems so he’s in bed with the media who’s owned by the deep state.
Post #113 you said President Trump would be breaking the law?
What law? Please list it.
Don’t dodge it like you did in your last post.
If anyone needs to go back, then it’s YOU need to go back to civics in junior high.
If the Sheriff gets too inconvenient for the image of Bammy and the Hilbeast, he might get suicided or disappear, though.
Haha!
Are you joking???
The Commander in Chief IS the TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.
Man you need to go back to junior high!
Yes, I remember that quite well, but I wouldn’t have remembered it was Broward County until someone mentioned it. Quite a little record that county has. No wondered they spawned something like the Congressman Cowgirl.
Some people need firing.
Friend of Hitlery.
Muslim deputy, who stood down to allow infidels to be slaughtered.
$150,000 sports car for work car.
Trump can not fire employees of a county government. He has no authority whatsoever in the government of Coward County. The Governor of Florida can relieve a county sheriff for malfeasance. The President of the United States has no jurisdiction in the matter.
What US legal title do you wish me to cite, Title 10, 32, 50, etc because none give the Prez the authority you want (Thank God!)!
It’s very simple the President is head of the executive branch of the federal government. He only has legal authority over subordinate members of the executive branch of the federal government. The sheriff is in county government, a completely separate sovereign entity from the federal government. In most states the sheriff’s office is very independent of the state government. (Also the state governments are sovereign entities from the federal government! Could Obama order the arrest of a GOP governor say Texas’s Perry?) In common law & practice the sheriff is the top law enforcement official in the county, elected by the people for better or worse. Getting rid of one outside election defeat isn’t simple! In the Broward County case he’s done nothing illegal as near as I can tell. Breath-taking incompetence at one’s job is not necessarily against the law. Even if it was its not Trump’s job to fire him, its Florida as a whole and the Broward County voters. Trump could jump up & down all day and demand the sheriff be fired it would have no legal effect. If Trump actually took action he would be misusing his authority and that would be grounds for impeachment and likely criminal prosecution later. I assume you want to win this thing, be patient!
You seem to want Trump to be king, he’s not nor I am sure would he want to be. Leave those tyrant dreams to the Rats.
Drag his ass out by the ankles!! Get a rope!!
What bothers me so much about this turd is that 17 people died and more people injured due to his ideological incompetence and he does not act in the slightest bit remorseful and sad. He just pulls the “ain’t mah fault, it was the other guys” routine.
Sick bastard need a firin’.
Here’s the US Titles through which all federal authority flow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Code
Show me the one that says the Prez has the authority over the running of a county sheriff’s department.
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