I just heard on the top of the hours radio news that the school resource officer was there when the shooting took place. He took a defensive position and never engaged that Nikolas fukktard. The officer has resigned.
Parkland shooting: Armed school resource officer ‘never went in’ to school during shooting Feb 22 2018, 5:58 pm ET
An armed school resource officer on campus where a gunman killed 17 people never went inside the high school or tried to engage the gunman during the attack, a Florida sheriff said Thursday.
That officer has now resigned.“I think he remained outside for upwards of four minutes,” Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said during a news conference Thursday afternoon.
Israel said
school resource officer Scot Peterson “was absolutely on campus through this entire event. He was armed, he was in uniform.” Peterson was seen on video arriving at the west side of a building, but “he never went in,” Israel said.
Israel said Peterson should have gone in and “addressed the killer, killed the killer.”
Israel added that after seeing the video, hearing witness accounts and getting a statement from Peterson, he suspended the officer without pay pending an internal investigation. Peterson then resigned, he said.
The sheriff said the revelation made him "sick to my stomach. There are no words I mean these families lost their children."
He also addressed two past calls the sheriff's office received related to suspected gunman Nikolas Cruz that were not fully acted upon.
"In two of these cases, after being briefed by internal affairs, I've restricted two of our deputies while we delve further into this, to take statements and make a decision whether or not they could have done more or should have done more," he said, adding. "It's a fluid investigation. They are on restricted duty."
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