Video delays misled cops at Stoneman Douglas shooting

[DonViejo]

Source: The Sun-Sentinel




By Lisa J. Huriash, Stephen Hobbs and Megan O'MatzContact Reporters
Sun Sentinel

Nearly a half-hour after Nikolas Cruz dropped his rifle and fled Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police thought they were seeing him live on security cameras, still in the building. They were actually seeing images tape-delayed.

The Broward School District’s security cameras did not provide real-time video for police, complicating their efforts to track and pin down the shooter, the South Florida Sun Sentinel has learned.

“He went from the third floor to the second floor ... They’re monitoring him on camera,” an officer said on radio transmissions recorded by Broadcastify, an audio streaming website, at 2:54 p.m. In fact, Cruz was already long gone — he had escaped the school’s freshman building 26 minutes earlier, a timeline released by the Broward Sheriff’s Office shows.

The video images were “delayed 20 minutes and nobody told us that,” said Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi.

Read more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-school-shooting-response-20180221-story.html

[2naSalit]

1. This will

become the arguing point for the gunners. I fully expect to hear it in the form of a sound byte issuing from the foul mouth of the grand wizard wayne in the very near future.

[DeminPennswoods]

2. My biggest question now is

why weren't the two resource officers who were at the school every day told to be on the lookout for Cruz? He was an expelled student and at least one letter/email had been sent to MSD staff warning about him. If they were advised about Cruz, how did they fail to spot him coming onto the grounds?

I think an easy and fast fix will be to add realtime cameras at all entrances/exits and perhaps also near the fire alarms.

[Shipwack]

3. What!!!!? WTF?

They had not one, but TWO security guards there? Why do we not hear about their response? Do they stop working at noon or something?

Did they run and hide when the shooting started? I ask this because we have heard many stories of students acting heroically and literally acting as human shields, but nothing of the actions of these two people.

Were they armed? If so, this totally demolishes the right wing argument of the value of armed guards, teachers, or even of the power of “a good guy with a gun”.

Why has this not been talked about more (if at all)?

[DeminPennswoods]

4. The day of the shooting the Broward County School Superintendent

was interviewed. I think he was asked about security, but regardless, said the school had two "resource officers", generally armed law enforcement officers, but he didn't specifically describe them as such, on duty every day. I thought he also said every county school has them.

I read one recent story linked somewhere here on DU that the officers never encountered Cruz that day before he began his assault.

[appalachiablue]

6. The Parkland School/Campus has 3,000 students. Posters have commented

that 'it's a nice area', like why would the Security Officer (who did nothing) expect a shooting?

Now it turns out there were 2 of them. I'd expect that no. at least, maybe a couple more.

I hope the Sec. Officer(s) and school were following the NEWS for 10+ yrs., esp. in FLA.! No place is safe in the US now.

Given Cruz' school issues, I also thought how could Security Staff not be aware of him and his actions?

That area I know a bit from relatives whose kids were in school around there and Boca.

[Dave Starsky]

5. And what good is a security camera with a 20-minute delay?

It even seems like you would have to go out of your way to even find one.

Lots of in this. I, too, have heard nothing about the actions of the two armed security guards and have wondered what in the hell they were doing when all hell broke loose.

[ansible]

7. They were hiding like chickenshits