Deputy Who Stayed Outside During Parkland School Shooting Faces Criminal Charges
 

Deputy Who Stayed Outside During Parkland School Shooting Faces Criminal Charges

MIAMI — A former sheriff’s deputy was arrested Tuesday in connection with the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the latest in a series of actions to hold police accountable for their response to an attack that left 17 people dead.

Scot Peterson, a former Broward County sheriff’s deputy who was the security officer assigned to the high school, faces 11 charges of neglect of a child, culpable negligence and perjury as a result of an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the authorities said. He was taken into custody and will be booked into the Broward County jail on a $102,000 bond.

“The F.D.L.E. investigation shows former Deputy Peterson did absolutely nothing to mitigate the M.S.D. shooting that killed 17 children, teachers and staff and injured 17 others,” the department’s commissioner, Rick Swearingen, said in a statement. “There can be no excuse for his complete inaction and no question that his inaction cost lives.”

Officials determined that Mr. Peterson, as well as Sgt. Brian Miller, “neglected their duties,” and they were both were terminated on Tuesday. Mr. Peterson was taken into custody after an administrative discipline hearing.

The criminal charges were an unusual instance of law enforcement officers being held criminally liable for failing to protect the public.

Civil lawsuits have become par for the course following mass shootings in the United States. Families of the victims and survivors themselves use litigation to hold institutions, both public and private, responsible for failing to keep people safe, as well as to push for policy changes or to collect compensation for emotional and physical trauma or death.

Those lawsuits have also taken aim at companies that manufacture guns and firearm components like bump stocks.

But experts say that criminally charging a law enforcement officer for allegedly being negligent in his response to a mass shooting is new ground.

“This is the first time I have seen somebody so charged like this,” said Clinton R. Van Zandt, a former profiler with the F.B.I. and an expert on mass shootings. “I think that every police officer, sheriff and F.B.I. agent understands that you have to go to the threat and stop it and that we are no longer going to wait for SWAT or set up perimeters.”

The Department of Law Enforcement said its inquiry showed that Mr. Peterson, 56, did not investigate the source of the gunshots, retreated during the shooting while victims were still under attack and directed other law enforcement officers to remain 500 feet away from the building.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/u...-peterson.html

He's a Trump supporter. Figures the spineless son of a bitch too afraid to save children being murdered at school supports such a piece of shit as Trump.

They would have been better off if they shot an unarmed black man

All you have are lies. Everything = a lie.

The guy was a coward and a piece of shit. More than likely was a hillbot like most of that department down there.

Should use PTSD defence....works for all other cowards :2 cents:

Trump supporters are saying he didn't do anything wrong because "team Trump"

Disgusting :disgust

I think this is a bit unfair. I understand he was a police officer or a paid armed security guard, and there to protect the children, but let's face reality here... They don't give these jobs to their best cops on the force. They give these jobs to the officers who are about ready to retire. One of my friends worked as police officer for thirty years and was looking forward to retirement when he was offered a job as a "resource officer" at one of the local schools. His real job to give off the impression that there is an armed officer on school grounds.

We have an expectation that a single good guy with a handgun can go running into a active shooter scene and take on a man armed with an assault rifle. That's insane. Most likely he wasn't even sure where the shooter was.... His primary job in the first few moments of the shooting was to evacuate students and staff, try to locate the shooter, and report back on the radio on what was happening and where help was needed.

And the Republicans and the NRA want to arm teachers? If a person (retired or not) that is in law enforcement can't run toward a problem, then they don't belong there. This guy was a coward and that's all there is to it. To expect heroes out of ordinary teachers with guns is wishful thinking. The solution here is to surrender all military weapons and outlaw them. Certainly our children are more important than the right to own an AR-15. Until this happens, get used to dead children. And that argument about "Guns don't kill people; people kill people" is bullshit so save your breath.

he's being chard because he was afraid of a gunfight?? not all people are heroes. he's human the shit can go many ways when you are facing being killed.

Yeah exactly.

He's a fucking cop, with a gun, paid very well, more than any of the teachers, to protect kids on a high school campus and to give his life to save theirs.

If the guard dog doesn't protect the family he pays that's the way it is. live by the sword die by The sword you want the glory of being a cop you sacrifice when it's your time and you go down in flames of disgrace & punishment when you fail to fulfill your duty.

Dear moron, shall we venture back to the threads on this?

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People can react all kinds of ways when the reality of a situation hits. That said, he took this job knowing what it was and telling people he was capable of doing it. Then he didn't and people died. As Spider-man says, "With great power comes great responsibility."

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so you charge someone with a crime for being human? fuk you two assholes and anyone that says he should be charged.

A cop doesn't get paid enough...

But it's a cop's job to protect the innocent. Waiting for backup in this kind of situation is not an option. You're the one with the gun and training, sworn to protect the innocent. Run toward the gunfire as fast as possible.

it's hard to say what any one of us would do, but I think I would choose to be the hero. If something in me made stay taking cover behind the car, it would be my last thought before I die in my bed an old man.

Cops aren't paid to be human. Think about that.

When a cop pulls you over, he's not trained to make things personal or be pissed off at you. He is to write you a ticket and do his job.

When there's gunfire in a school, that's also not the time to be human.

probably 90% of cops never fire a gun... you can't say how someone will react. you take your ass down there then... fukin gi joe muther fuker

read my post above.

So because 90% of cops will never fire their gun, that means a cop shouldn't run into a school shooting? That's some asinine logic you've got going on there.

"I'll just take cover because 90% of cops never fire their gun. That will absolve me of not doing my job".

Brass, you hardheaded bro.

If you take the job, do the job. Simple.

it's my opinion... it's not criminal. next you will think toy makers that make small toys should go to prison when a kid dies. :Oh crap if this cop went in there and killed some kids he would be in the same boat. have you ever heard of police not stopping armed robberies? because they have the choice to step in or not... you know that right?? a murder could happen in the process.

:1orglaugh how the hell you comparing... nevermind bro

we gonna have to agree to disagree :thumbsup

you skimmed right over that last part dogg :winkwink: you know it's bible truth... ask a cop in your area. he or she will probably not want to say it

Bro is charged with child neglect. His job was to protect them kids.

"Those are my kids in there, I never would have sat there and let my kids get slaughtered. Never." - Peterson

Looks like he didn't have the choice to step in or not to me.

A murder "could" happen in the process? What the fuck are you talking about? Do you mean the cop could accidentally shoot an innocent person? He "could" do that. But if he doesn't go in, the shooter definitely "will" murder people.

Cops aren't supposed to do anything because they could harm the innocent by accident? I guess I'll never leave my house because I could get hit by a car. You're a fucking dense motherfucker. What that cop didn't do is what cops are paid to do. If they all sit on their ass because something is too dangerous then what's the point of having police in the first place?

ex. a robbery in cali. a mother went in left the car running with her teen daughter waiting in the car while she ran in the bank. a group of hispanic robbers took her hostage. they came out with police there. they get in the car with the daughter. they shoot the mom roll her out of a moving car :helpme then the daughter... she lived her mom is dead. if the cops acted when they came out maybe she would have lived. if the robbers killed the teen should the cops be charged??? anyway a court will handle this

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