More Crummy News For The Broward County Sheriff’s Office
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June 1, 2018According to this, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office handled the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in an even crummier way than originally thought.
They repeatedly told willing paramedics to stay put.
Michael McNally, deputy chief for Coral Springs fire-rescue, asked six times for permission to send in specialized teams of police officers and paramedics, according to an incident report he filed after the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 people dead.
But every time McNally asked to deploy the two Rescue Task Force teams — each made up of three paramedics and three to four law enforcement officers — the Broward Sheriff’s Office captain in charge of the scene, Jan Jordan, said no.
“The [BSO] incident commander advised me, ‘She would have to check,’ ” McNally wrote in the report released Thursday by Coral Springs. “After several minutes, I requested once again the need to deploy RTF elements into the scene to … initiate treatment as soon as possible. Once again, the incident commander expressed that she ‘would have to check before approving this request.’ “
My first reaction? “Oh. Well obviously they had to wait until the shooter was detained. They were protecting paramedics, so I guess that makes sense?”
That’d be fine and dandy and all if not for the fact that they continued to tell paramedics to stay put even AFTER the shooter was apprehended.
Even after the shooter had been arrested, the answer remained the same.
It’s not known whether paramedics, who arrived at Stoneman Douglas within minutes of the shooting, could have saved lives. Thirty-four people had been shot inside the school’s freshman building. Gunshot wound victims can bleed out quickly, meaning fast action is necessary. The special RTF teams allow paramedics to treat victims under the protection of police officers in situations where a shooter has been pinned down or fled but has not necessarily been captured.
SWAT medics went in instead, although it’s not clear exactly how many or when.
I’m not saying the [RTFs] would have made a difference and I’m not saying they wouldn’t have made a difference, but it would have been more medics and more hands helping out,” Coral Springs Fire Chief Frank Babinec said in an interview Thursday.
Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for BSO, said in an email Thursday evening that medics are only sent in “after it has been confirmed the threat is mitigated.”
The video confusion was one of many mistakes that hampered law enforcement’s response to the worst school shooting in Florida history.
It’s sad. Who knows if things would’ve been any different, had authorities had the correct information at the time.
At least three additional fire-rescue incident reports released Thursday by Coral Springs confirmed that BSO had denied requests to send in the rescue teams. Coral Springs provides fire service in the city of Parkland. BSO provides law enforcement.
In his report, McNally acknowledged that RTF teams may not have helped in the end — but he said Jordan couldn’t have realized that when she repeatedly denied his requests.
“Later, it was determined that the RTF element may not have aided in any additional care to patients,” McNally wrote. “However, this information was not known at the time of the requests.”
It was such a chaotic mess. There are so many things that went wrong, and I’m including the FBI dropping the ball in the first place in that statement.
Sheriff @ScottJIsrael . No wonder his deputies overwhelmingly voted no confidence in this partisan who stood by and did nothing while lives were lost. When will @FLGovScott intervene? https://t.co/ahwNoSRqtQ
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 1, 2018
This is simply another reason I think it’s ridiculous to continue to demonize law-abiding gun owners. They had nothing to do with this tragedy.
