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Armed sheriff's deputy stayed outside Florida school while mass killing took place

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/02/22/armed-sheriffs-deputy-stayed-outside-florida-school-while-mass-killing-took-place/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_pn-fladeputy-625pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.2feb8c779b87

The armed school resource officer assigned to protect students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took a defensive position outside the school and did not enter the building while the shooter was killing students and teachers inside with an AR-15 assault-style rifle, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday.

Israel said he suspended School Resource Deputy Scot Peterson on Thursday after seeing a video from the Parkland, Fla., school that showed Peterson outside the school building where the shooter was inside and attacking.

“What I saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of Building 12, take up a position, and never went in,” Israel said.

He said Peterson was armed, and was in uniform, and should have gone into the building during the 6-minute event, which left 17 people, most of them teenagers, dead. When asked what the deputy should have done, Israel said: “Went in and addressed the killer. Killed the killer.”


A TRAINED 'good guy with a gun' made no difference- and now they want teachers to take on mass murderers ...

Insanity is what is killing people, but it is the insanity of the NRA and their GOP whores.

I don't think its fair to judge the deputy- no one knows what they will really do in such a situation...

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