Mr. Hixon was not a Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy working as a school resource officer.
Supposedly a Deputy Peterson was the SRO but aside from some hearsay about Peterson’s location it has not been confirmed exactly where Peterson was that day.
Initial comments had the SRO off campus and then in subsequent comments you could see a lot of equivocating from the Sheriff’s Department and the school district as to where the SRO was.
They were dancing the line of lying to the public while giving themselves some wiggle room to back out of it in case they got caught.
Yes, you may be correct with that assessment
The statement at the news source said that the SRO officer was elsewhere on the 45 acre complex
but didn't specify exactly where he was at the time of the altercation.