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Deputy at Parkland Fl school was in position failed to act

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I apoligize if this is already posted, if it is delete it, I didn't see it. The news about the FL school shooting gets worse every day. :(

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M-Quigley wrote:I apoligize if this is already posted, if it is delete it, I didn't see it. The news about the FL school shooting gets worse every day. :(

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I wonder if the FOP will make an excuse? In the military wouldn't this be a court martial?

By tomorrow some of the fake media will be calling him an actor and part of the plan.
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And that Sheriff is a big Anti-. Maybe he should work on training his own LEOs instead of running his mouth about civilians and guns. You know, do his job.

Now that is embarrassing. I've heard police recruiting is slipping, but not doing anything with an active shooter in a school. The Deputy should go to jail for dereliction of duty. I know some Grandmas that would have gone in there with their walkers and a sharp pen.
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Mr. Glock wrote:And that Sheriff is a big Anti-. Maybe he should work on training his own LEOs instead of running his mouth about civilians and guns. You know, do his job.

Now that is embarrassing. I've heard police recruiting is slipping, but not doing anything with an active shooter in a school. The Deputy should go to jail for dereliction of duty. I know some Grandmas that would have gone in there with their walkers and a sharp pen.
Face wrote:I wonder if the FOP will make an excuse? In the military wouldn't this be a court martial?

By tomorrow some of the fake media will be calling him an actor and part of the plan.

Keep in mind the police have ZERO duty to protect you. Department wise they can discipline the person, but no lawsuit against the officer or department will hold up for failure to act unless it is written in the policy that he was suppose to act. And generally, those policies have something about "if safe to do so" in them.
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He resigned prior to termination for cause.

He will BOTH:
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  • be hired by another department.
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JediSkipdogg wrote:
Mr. Glock wrote:And that Sheriff is a big Anti-. Maybe he should work on training his own LEOs instead of running his mouth about civilians and guns. You know, do his job.

Now that is embarrassing. I've heard police recruiting is slipping, but not doing anything with an active shooter in a school. The Deputy should go to jail for dereliction of duty. I know some Grandmas that would have gone in there with their walkers and a sharp pen.
Face wrote:I wonder if the FOP will make an excuse? In the military wouldn't this be a court martial?

By tomorrow some of the fake media will be calling him an actor and part of the plan.

Keep in mind the police have ZERO duty to protect you. Department wise they can discipline the person, but no lawsuit against the officer or department will hold up for failure to act unless it is written in the policy that he was suppose to act. And generally, those policies have something about "if safe to do so" in them.
You are, of course, correct. Police only have a duty to provide protection in general, not in specific, to paraphrase. Still, we citizens give you a gun and powers of detainment, you should understand those come with responsibilities. Like killing an active shooter in a school.

Just because it is department or union policy, that bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo / artificial construct doesn't make it right out here in the real world.

Wondering legally, since it was a mass shooting, does that qualify as lacking protection of the community? The court case that decided the general vs specific duty to protect was a very specific situation. A mass shooting is an act against a community, however. No idea, I'm not a lawyer. Interesting angle though.

I'd like to think most LEOs would not hesitate to engage an active shooter. This particular deputy, however, needs some schooling out back of the department building, in the old style.
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Just between us chickens: Remember the Zimmerman case in FL?

I just wonder if the Deputy thought about that. If the shooter was a kid, and the Deputy in turn punched his ticket, he'd be crucified in the press.

If the shooter was a minority kid, the Deputy might have been burned at the stake.... Or worse....

Just wondering.... Remember, this was in Chicago. I knew a Chicago PD Detective who refused to carry his sidearm off duty.

Not exactly my choice - either in jumping into the fray, or getting crucified in the press, but something to think about.

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I also read that this deputy now has a Palm Beach* County Sheriff's protective team around his home while the investigation continues. I suppose parents of at least one of the dead school children would be inclined to look up ex-deputy Peterson otherwise.

*Edited to Palm Beach County, I'd presumed ex-deputy Scot Peterson lived in Broward County, because that's where he was employed.
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His face should be made known far and wide. Let him be shunned and ignored far and wide.
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deanimator wrote:He resigned prior to termination for cause.

He will BOTH:
  • be defended by the union.
  • be hired by another department.
Speaking at a press conference, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said the on duty officer at Stoneman "never went in." Israel said he was "devastated" after watching the video showing the deputy taking a position outside the Western side of Building 12 while shots rang out, "and he never went in" despite having a clear view of the entrance.

"I think he remained outside upwards of four minutes," Israel said.

The uniformed officer, identified as Scot Peterson, was been suspended without pay pending an investigation, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel - however he has since resigned and retired from the department.

"As is his right, Scot Peterson chose to resign, because he has the necessary time with the agency and meets the requirements of retirement, he resigned and retired."


"We're not going to disclose the video at this time, and we may never disclose the video depending on the prosecution and the criminal case."
A) He's going to see his bennies. He's a mercenary, nothing more.
Peterson, 54, came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz entered the school with an AR-15 rifle and killed 14 students and three educators on Valentine’s Day.

Peterson has been a school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas since 2009. He began working for the sheriff’s office in 1985. His annual salary in 2016 was $75,673.72, according to sheriff’s office records.

The Sheriff’s Office released documents Thursday showing that Peterson was put under an internal investigation the day before. Israel said that Peterson was suspended without pay.
B) That's some salary and such for someone who doesn't engage when needed.

Please, can we accept the concept that retired LEOs or VETs or any State actor will not necessarily protect you from harm? Have you heard about "officer safety" or the prime objective of coming home every night?
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I was also an emergency responder (fire/EMS, as most here know already, sorry) and can't quite find the words to describe how much this apparent failure by Peterson sickens and outrages me. I can imagine that our LE members on this forum who can, and have, run TOWARDS the danger, are even more upset.

That stated, I'd ask that this thread doesn't turn into a bashing of the emergency response professions. Okay?
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SMMAssociates wrote:Just between us chickens: Remember the Zimmerman case in FL?

I just wonder if the Deputy thought about that. If the shooter was a kid, and the Deputy in turn punched his ticket, he'd be crucified in the press.

If the shooter was a minority kid, the Deputy might have been burned at the stake.... Or worse....

Just wondering.... Remember, this was in Chicago. I knew a Chicago PD Detective who refused to carry his sidearm off duty.

Not exactly my choice - either in jumping into the fray, or getting crucified in the press, but something to think about.

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Regarding the bolded, if it was merely a report of an armed person without any evidence that a shooting occurred, and he shot the (unarmed) suspect simply because of a report, then yes, he would be critisized. In this case the suspect was armed and shooting at people. Although there would be a few that would be critical no matter what the situation, I don't think most normal people would complain about the LEO shooting the suspect in that kind of situation. If a suspect like that is a minority and a group like BLM is critical of stopping the shooter, it would just make BLM look unreasonable in the eyes of the average person, black white whatever.

I think the deputy failed to go in simply because he was scared. It's not the first time an LEO got too scared to act, and it won't be the last. Back in the eighties, I had to assist a Dayton Oh cop in an arrest because the just out of the academy rookie cop he was assigned with froze up when confronted with a real suspect effectively resisting arrest. The cop was yelling at the rookie and he just stood there, and this wasn't even a shooting situation. After the suspect was cuffed I almost wondered if someone was going to have to protect the rookie from his training officer, because he was super PO'd at him.

I used to be assigned to a HS once as outdoor security, come inside as needed or called for. Back then it wasn't a fear of a mass shooter, but kids sneaking out without a pass, or breaking into or vandalizing cars in the lot. I was however armed and had police powers on school grounds. On the one hand, I understand all the legitimate various technical reasons in the Florida situation why that particular deputy failed to act in that particular situation, but not excusing it either. Despite the potential risk, if I had been in the Florida situation I doubt I could've lived with myself anyway if I could've tried something to stop it and failed to act. :(

Like Brian said, I hope that the thread doesn't turn into a general LEO bashing, because I don't think this guy is typical of most LEO's I know at all.
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deanimator wrote:
M-Quigley wrote:I apoligize if this is already posted, if it is delete it, I didn't see it. The news about the FL school shooting gets worse every day. :(

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Bingo!

I don't want to criticize the Deputy and make any assumptions about why he didn't react. He could be a coward or he was following department SOP.

If you remember the scene in the movie "Patton," you will recall the soldier slapping incident. The real story about that soldier was that he wasn't a coward. He was ordered to report to the hospital tent for battle fatigue. He told his Battery Commander, "F*** you and your order. I want to stay here and kill as many Germans as possible."

His Battery Commander had two big soldiers drag him to the hospital tent. The movie didn't show what happened before the slapping incident and in everyone's minds, that soldier was branded a coward.

And like the soldier portrayed in the movie, we don't know the complete story in this deputy. If he was following department SOP by waiting for back-up then there is a bigger problem besides any alleged cowardice.

The point that everyone is missing in the story of this deputy is that a cop cannot be counted on to always protect you even when they are SECONDS away. We shouldn't waste time criticizing the deputy but rather continue to point out that arming a potential victim has a better potential of preventing/stopping a mass killing.

Arming a potential victim is better than trying to fit a cop in a holster.
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SMMAssociates wrote:Just between us chickens: Remember the Zimmerman case in FL?

I just wonder if the Deputy thought about that. If the shooter was a kid, and the Deputy in turn punched his ticket, he'd be crucified in the press.

If the shooter was a minority kid, the Deputy might have been burned at the stake.... Or worse....

Just wondering.... Remember, this was in Chicago. I knew a Chicago PD Detective who refused to carry his sidearm off duty.

Not exactly my choice - either in jumping into the fray, or getting crucified in the press, but something to think about.

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