I did not know that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School did have an armed police “resource officer” present at the time.
And he stood out in the parking lot and called in the incident*.
But it’s your fault and mine for refusing to disarm and depend on the cops for our defense. Go figure.
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*Somewhat in his defense he wasn’t exactly Rambo. He was a 33-year burnout who’d been on site since 2009 and probably hated every one of those kids in detail and by name and should clearly have been pushed out of the department long ago, except he couldn’t be because union. But he was there, and he did do nothing. When the [ETA: Gun-grabbing dick of a] sheriff threw him under the bus, he retired rather than accept “administrative leave.”
Just call him the coward of the county.
At least the coward had enough sense to retire early. How about the people at the FBI who failed to follow up on tips they received about the shooter weeks beforehand?
America has an accountability crisis. When people who are paid to protect and serve fail spectacularly, they need to be spectacularly fired, sued and humiliated.
In my (limited) experience, there are few who actually choose to be School Resource Officers. They are mostly folks who can’t be hired as full-fledged police officers for one reason or another.
First I heard about it was today, too.
I’m guessing 1) this was known from the very first instant of the attack and 2) kept under the rug until the usual agitprop could be manufactured and transmitted to us ignorant rubes to avoid clouding The Truth with the facgts.
Cheers.
Not even remotely in the same league as Kevin Vickers: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sergeant-at-arms-who-reportedly-shot-suspect-hailed-as-hero-by-mps/article21237164/
Government 101:
1) Complete failure to execute basic protocol of their stated mission (serve & protect)
2) Run playbook:
“On Wednesday, Israel announced that Broward County sheriff’s deputies would now be carrying AR-15 rifles on school grounds within the district, adding that one of the ways to make schools safer is to evaluate the number of school resource officers on campuses.”
3) So, the people without the balls to go shoot a single armed piece of crap are now going to get to carry the same gun they want to take away from citizens who wouldn’t run and hide, and then increase their staffing levels. I’m guessing they’ll all get nice raises to go along with it.
That cop did all the protecting he was legally obligated to do.
So that’s the deal I give up my gun and let this pos protect me and my family cause he is highly trained and professional. Yea that is a temping offer but I think I’ll pass. By the way that ass hole was doing just as he was trained to do secure the perimeter wait for backup. Go in later and gather evidence. Police are not here to protect you! They are historians, they are to record for the record what happened to take those records to court. That is the job!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/23/broward-county-sheriffs-office-did-not-miss-warning-signs-or-make-mistakes/
I can’t even imagine. All i can do is hope that i never have to live with the shame of knowing children were dying, and i did nothing.
Never been in a situation like this, but i hope I’d do better than that.
So say we all.
Eric, forgive me this pedantry, as I agree with what you *mean*, but that phrase is so associated with the song, that if you weren’t aware of how inappropriate the reference is to describe an actual coward, that you might want to know.
Google “Coward of the County lyrics” and take a look.
How absolutely “not this guy” is that? 🙂
Sadly SROs are not the cream of the crop in LE. They tend to be that guy whose lazy and looking for a 9-5, weekends off gig. I’ve know a many and they all follow this profile. The Sheriff down there need to step down also, he has failed as a leader!!!
It wasn’t just the SRO who refused to do his job. There were at least three other “Law Enforcement” officers who cowered as well while the murderer did his thing:
“When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriff’s deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.“