Four sheriff’s deputies hid during Florida school shooting

Sheriff Israel’s Pussy Posse

New York Post – by Ruth Brown

Four armed officers and years of warnings did nothing to stop Nikolas Cruz from massacring 17 people at a high school.

Not one but four sheriff’s deputies hid behind cars instead of storming Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., during Wednesday’s school shooting, police claimed Friday — as newly released records revealed the Broward County Sheriff’s Office had received at least 18 calls about the troubled teen over the past decade.  

Sources from Coral Springs, Fla., Police Department tell CNN that when its officers arrived on the scene Wednesday, they were shocked to find three Broward County Sheriff’s deputies behind their cars with weapons drawn.

The school’s armed resource officer, Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, was also outside. He resigned on Thursday after his failure to act was publicly revealed.

The Coral Springs cops entered the building to engage the shooter on their own, before other Broward County deputies arrived, two of whom joined the police inside, the sources said.

It was unclear whether the shooter was still inside at the time, CNN reported.

Coral Springs City Manager Mike Goodrum confronted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel during a vigil for victims the next day, saying students could have been dying in the school while the deputies held back.

The next day, Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi wrote in an internal e-mail that “another agency has given the impression that it had provided the majority of the rescue efforts.”

“Please know that this issue will be addressed, and the truth will come out in time,” he wrote.

In an official statement Friday, the police department said only that “any actions or inactions that negatively affected the response will be investigated.”

News of the deputies’ apparent inaction came after the sheriff’s office released records showing how many times it had received alarming reports about Cruz, 19, over the years — including two that specifically warned he was a potential school shooter.

The records show that a neighbor called in February 2016 to report that Cruz “planned to shoot up the school” and had posted photos to Instagram of himself posing with guns.

The information was passed on to Peterson, but it was not clear what, if anything, he did with it.

Another person phoned the sheriff’s office in November last year to say the teen was stockpiling guns and knives and warn that “he could be a school shooter in the making,” the records show.

But the caller was told to contact the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office instead because Cruz had moved out of Broward, according to the records.

In September 2016, a peer counselor told Peterson that Cruz had tried to kill himself by drinking gasoline, was cutting himself, possessed hate symbols and expressed a desire to buy a gun “for hunting.”

This time, Peterson did make a report, but a mental-health worker determined Cruz didn’t meet the state’s criteria for involuntary commitment to a psychiatric facility, the records show.

Cruz stayed at the school for another five months before he was transferred out.

President Trump sharply criticized Peterson on Friday.

“He trained his whole life. When it came time to get in there and do something, he didn’t have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job — there’s no question about that,” Trump told a reporter.

Video, meanwhile, emerged of Peterson touting the value of resource officers like himself during a 2015 school-board meeting.

“We are crime prevention. An audit report will never show how much we prevent,” he tells the board members, according to the Sun Sentinel.

Peterson also brags of chasing four people through a school with his gun after the cafeteria alarm went off, and recalls responding to a report of an armed man wearing a ski mask

“So I ran, put some shorts on, ran out with my firearm, while I’m running to the school, I’m contacting Coconut Creek police, we set up a perimeter,” he said.

It turned out the miscreant was an 18-year-old senior with a paintball gun.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/23/four-sheriffs-deputies-hid-during-florida-school-shooting/

23 thoughts on “Four sheriff’s deputies hid during Florida school shooting

  1. If this don’t wake some sheeple up
    I don’t know what will

    We don’t need the police , we need the people of this country to realize their safety is in their own hands , there is no such thing as a real gun law .. other than the second amendment

  2. HAHAHA~!!!!!!
    GOOD ONE HENRY!!!!
    BEWARE THE “PUSSY POSSE”!!!!!
    OY-VEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. Just goes to show you Henry, most of these cowards shouldn’t be too much of a problem when the time comes.

  4. ‘Coral Springs City Manager Mike Goodrum confronted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel during a vigil for victims the next day, saying students could have been dying in the school while the deputies held back.’

    ‘saying students could have been dying in the school while the deputies held back.’

    ‘could have been ‘…………hmmm

  5. Were they not invited to the party and now being reported as “derelict”? The old switcheroo from the tribe is not a new one. Like Katyn?

  6. Another event and everyone is watching the magician with his smoke and mirrors and most have already forgotten the previous acts. Don’t hear anything about Orland, Houston or even Las Vegas. all under the rug and out of sight. Only here at “The Trenches” is any common senses and long memories with thinking people asking intelligent questions.
    If you need a reason to arm yourself keep reading about cops not anything and hiding until a few helicopters (gunships), armored trucks (tanks), and SWAT (troops) get there for the fun and games. By, this time the problem is usually died down- seriously died and it’s mop up and control.

  7. Something stinks about this whole story. According to witnesses there was a drill going on when this took place, some actually said “definitely more than one shooter”, and now we hear that not one but four officers did nothing as a shooting was going on in a school on top of the numerous red flags and visits to this guy with the specific threat of him becoming a school shooter, but somehow he gets a pass while people lose everything they have (guns, home,children) for possession of a plant or collecting rainwater. I can’t help but think, and I could be wrong, that these pigs knew very well what was happening and were playing their part actually. Staying back so he and the other shooters could inflict as much damage as possible and rack up a good body count to really stir up an emotional response for gun control. This is also the sherriff who boasted proudly about how he’s taken peoples guns before. Im not buying it.

    1. I think you’re absolutely right, Jamal. Sounds like they were told to stand down if four of them didn’t lift a finger.

      And there’s a LOT that stinks about this story, just like all the other mass-shootings.

      1. I wholeheartedly agree as well about the orders to not go in, but still trying to find any proof of actual deaths. Anyone have any funeral links or the likes? Sorry for not being up to speed on this one. Their assembly line of atrocities is hard to keep up with! :-/

  8. “We are crime prevention. An audit report will never show how much we prevent,” …….or how little you prevent.

    The trained professionals really know how to hide from danger. I knew a cop in NYC who refused to ride the subway because “there’s too much crime down there”.

  9. Only the best can wear a star on there chest . What a joke .I would bet if there kids were in that school thoses cops would not of been hiding under there cars . This is the best place to read the comment thanks

  10. “… they were shocked to find three Broward County Sheriff’s deputies behind their cars with weapons drawn.”

    I just HAVE to ask… HIDING FROM WHAT?????

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