Deputy suspended for sleeping on duty at site of Florida school mass murder

[DonViejo]

Source: USA Today




Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 7:25 p.m. ET March 20, 2018 | Updated 7:28 a.m. ET March 21, 2018

A deputy tasked with patrolling the Florida high school that was targeted by a mass killer last month was suspended Monday after falling asleep in his patrol car, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.

Deputy Moises Carotti will remain off the job without pay until the department finishes an internal investigation. His suspension is the latest embarrassment for the department, which has been the target of criticism since the Valentine's Day shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead.

The incident also came as police arrested three students Tuesday in separate incidents. Two students were charged after being accused of bringing knives to the school. Another was arrested after sending "threatening" photos on social media of a gun and bullets, the department said.

On Monday evening, a sergeant was patrolling inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a student alerted him that a deputy was sleeping outside, said Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for the department.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/20/deputy-suspended-after-sleeping-tasked-protecting-florida-high-school-where-mass-shooting-happened-w/443818002/

[lark]

1. Fucking bullshit.

The video was on MSNBC showing him going to a door early on, commenting on the gun fire he heard, then heading in the opposite direction swiftly to get away. He wasn't sleeping, this was dereliction of duty and who knows how many kids died because of this big freaking coward?

[mainstreetonce]

2. This is apparently a sleeper today

Not the day of the shooting.

[DonViejo]

3. Did you read the article, especially the last paragraph of the excerpt?

[lark]

7. No, I didn't.

I was in a hurry and "assumed' it was the same person. My bad. It was the Deputy Peterson who faces the lifelong karma of letting so many children get killed while he ran away.

[lunasun]

4. This is a new deputy I believe . No improvement though. The same sense of duty it seems

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Hows that 'arming the schools' working out? The political cartoons practically draw themselves.

[left-of-center2012]

6. "Hows that 'arming the schools' working out?"

Wasn't it Trump who said a crazy person isn't going into a school if the teachers have guns?

I think "a crazy person" is going anywhere he/she wants,
because he/she's crazy.

[3Hotdogs]

8. Sleep apnea?