The Broward County Sheriff’s office has released video of that horrific day in Parkland, Florida… and the Deputy who could have stopped it.
It’s as bad as we thought.
“The video speaks for itself. His actions were enough to warrant an internal affairs investigation, as requested by Sheriff Scott Israel on Feb. 21.” @browardsheriff on the surveillance video from the #Parkland shooting https://t.co/5MGgalPRuD pic.twitter.com/echf3rx2g7
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) March 15, 2018
JUST IN: #BSO releases new video from Stoneman Douglas showing first moments after shots rang out. WATCH MORE here: https://t.co/CnBIAqIVR2 pic.twitter.com/LWsZL9J0Nv
— NBC 6 South Florida (@nbc6) March 15, 2018
According to NBC 6 South Florida:
A school resource officer whose actions in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have come under intense scrutiny can be seen in surveillance video released Thursday outside a room in the first moments after the massacre last month.
The video shows the moments when school officials and the officer, Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson, first reacted to the gunfire that rang out on Feb. 14.
Peterson can be seen with an unidentified school employee walking toward a room at 2:22 p.m., less than a minute after the first shots were fired by accused gunman Nikolas Cruz.
LESS THAN A MINUTE AFTER THE FIRST SHOTS WERE FIRED.
How many more kids were killed as he stood outside and did nothing?
Less than a minute later, three people — Peterson, who had radioed in a call of shots being fired, and two others — can be seen on a golf cart driving through campus before taking a position outside the 1200 building where the shooting took place.
Students, whose images were blurred in the video, can be seen running from their classrooms down an exterior hallway before being told to go in a different direction. Two minutes later, Peterson on radio says “All right… We also heard it’s by, inside the 1200.”
Cruz exits the 1200 building, leaving AR-15 behind, at 2:27 p.m.
Five minutes. They let Cruz have his way in there for five minutes as they stood outside and did nothing. Again… how many students could have been saved?
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office released the video after media outlets, including this station’s parent company, NBCUniversal, sued for the right to access that video, saying it was in the public interest regarding the tragic day when former student Nikolas Cruz allegedly shot nearly three dozen students and staff, killing 17.
A Broward circuit judge agreed, and BSO and the Broward County school district didn’t appeal, paving the way for Thursday’s release.
The videos have been a source of interest since investigations began into the actions of several law enforcement officials, including Peterson, who reportedly failed to immediately enter the school building where the shooting took place, as officers are trained to do.
I am beyond disgusted.
Here’s the whole video:
The left wants us to give up our guns… Why? So that guys like THIS can protect us?
No thanks.