Florida officer Scot Peterson defends response to Parkland shooting

[DonViejo]

Source: NBC News




FEB 26 2018, 2:29 PM ET

by JON SCHUPPE and DANNY CEVALLOS

The sheriff's deputy blamed for failing to enter a Florida high school while 17 people were killed said Monday that he's been unfairly labeled a coward and that he did nothing wrong.

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Peterson's lawyer, Joseph DiRuzzo III, said in a statement Monday that Israel had rushed to judge his client without taking into consideration all the facts.

"Let there be no mistake, Mr. Peterson wishes that he could have prevented the untimely passing of the seventeen victims on that day, and his heart goes out to the families of the victims in their time of need," DiRuzzo said.

"However, the allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue. Mr. Peterson is confident that his actions on that day were appropriate under the circumstances and that the video (together with the eye-witness testimony of those on the scene) will exonerate him of any sub-par performance," the statement said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-officer-scot-peterson-defends-response-parkland-shooting-n851281

[vkkv]

1. Trump likes lawsuits, I hope he gets one!

[TheDebbieDee]

2. I'm sure that Mr Peterson heard ack-ack-ack-ack,

or plrrrrrt, plrrrrt, plrrrrrt weaponsfire, considered that he only had a pistol with 15 bullets and determined that he was outgunned! I'm not mad at him...

[PatSeg]

7. Yes

I'm not going to judge him, as I was not there. It easy to criticize, as we don't know what we would do in the same situation.

[eissa]

3. I'm not going to attack him either

No matter how much training you've received, when something like this happens I imagine a lot of people would freeze up or panic. It's unfortunate, but I could see how he thought confronting this madman would have been a suicide mission. Just terrible all around.

[OnlinePoker]

4. But the Coward in Chief would have rushed in there on his heal spurs. n/t

[red dog 1]

14. + 1

[2left4u]

5. Chain of Command

Sheriff Scott Israel needs to go as do all the deputies involved! Period end of story.
This idiot thinks he gets a "pass"? Some leader getting his story out first forgetting how he had his men trained...sounds like ass covering to me.

Incompetence seems to be a core requirement in his department from the top down, fucking assclown

[keithbvadu2]

8. "how he had his men trained" - Still have not seen the sherrif's protocol for such events.

"how he had his men trained" - Still have not seen the sherrif's protocol for such events.

[bluestarone]

9. exactly right

I've seen no protocol!! Just what was the PLAN?? They do not want to discuss that!

[christx30]

18. The plan was to wait for everyone

to be dead, and pick up the pieces afterwards.
The plan is that if you're in Broward county, and things go to hell, you're on your own.

[2left4u]

11. Please review

http://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article202167749.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article202164039.html



Apparently the Deputy has hired an attorney who wrote a letter that is circulating (I can't find it yet) that puts Israel in a bad spot.

The above articles keep referring to BSO training and practices...that goes straight to the idiot in charge Israel.

[SayItLoud]

6. Just asking

This is a horrible HORRIBLE event for everyone directly and indirectly involved and aware of the tragedy.

What is, if there is, the military training or official position on something similar to what this guard found himself confronting? Maybe there isn't any hard and fast protocol but it would be informative to know if there is some guidelines.

[groundloop]

10. More proof that 'good guys with guns' is not the answer

A trained and armed law enforcement officer couldn't to a thing against a madman with an assault weapon, how the hell could a bunch of lightly armed school teachers possible safeguard our children? The fucking NRA and their apologists are idiots.

[msongs]

12. while kids were being gunned down he was hanging out far away in the parking lot nt

[Bengus81]

13. They needed and found a scape goat for Dec 7th 1941 too.............

[red dog 1]

15. "his heart goes out to the families of the victims in their time of need"

That sounds so familiar to me...I wonder where I heard that before...recently?

[Shitler, Eddie Munster, Turtle-Man, Marco Rubio, the terrorist organization called NRA & more]

[Hoyt]

16. Wonder if law enforcement "experts," gunners, hero wannabes, etc., will apologize for bashing guard

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yesterday? I believe the guard, and he deserves an apology from those running off at the keyboard and trump.

[Jake Stern]

17. When I point out his action it's not to criticize him

but to show that if an armed, thoroughly trained Law Enforcement Officer won't run in and confront the shooter then expecting teachers with far less training to do so is absurd.

[2left4u]

20. YES!

That's the point of all this bs!

Dumbass Trump is expecting a teacher to do what trained law enforcement won't do and is trained to the contrary to do.

[maxrandb]

19. Off topic but

What an unfortunate name for a police officer

[missingm]

21. At this point release the video as well as dispatch recordings

Until they do that there is no way to tell anything. Everyone reacted as if it was 4 minutes of shots being fired and screams. He likely wasn't on scene until 2-4 minutes after the event started. While we know Cruz left the building after 6 or 7 minutes we don't know when he stopped shooting.