Posted on 05/15/2018 4:38:57 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
ot Peterson, the sheriff’s deputy vilified for failing to confront the Parkland school shooter, has begun receiving a state pension of $8,702.35 a month.
Peterson resigned and retired Feb. 22, a week after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he waited outside as Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 17 others.
Peterson began to receive his pension in April, according to the Florida Department of Management Services. He can receive the payments for the rest of his life.
The 55-year-old Peterson, a Broward deputy for 32 years, was paid $101,879.03 last year, according to sheriff’s office records. Until the shooting, he was considered a trusted school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas, according to annual reviews of his performance.
Scot Peterson: School deputy goes from commended to vilified after Stoneman Douglas shooting On Feb. 14, surveillance video showed Peterson waiting outside the school as Cruz prowled the halls with an AR-15 rifle. President Donald Trump branded Peterson a coward, and Sheriff Scott Israel began an investigation into his actions. Israel said Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.”
After the shooting, Peterson said in a statement that he heard gunshots but believed that they were coming from outside of the school and not inside the building where the shooting took place.
An attorney representing Peterson did not respond to an email Tuesday requesting comment.
Peterson’s pension payments are based on the total number of years he worked and the average of his five highest-paid fiscal years, according to a state pension handbook.
Health benefits are not included in the monthly amount, according to a Department of Management Services spokeswoman. That information would have to be provided by his former employer, she said.
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That’s twice what sheriff’s deputies get around here.
“A coward dies a little every day in shame”
You think cowards have any sense of shame? I’ve known a couple ... they’re scum ... they operate with an entitlement mindset regardless of the lives they wreck in their wake.
Brave Sir Robin ran away
(No!)
Bravely ran away away
(I didn’t!)
When danger reared its ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled
(No!)
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
(I didn’t!)
And gallantly he chickened out
Bravely taking to his feet
(I never did!)
He beat a very brave retreat
(All lies!)
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!
(I never!)
More than three times as much as a 100% disabled veteran. Yeah, that makes sense.
Now we understand what this scumbag coward was thinking when he ran and hide...
He will be getting more in his ‘pension’ that in his current salary!!!
this is infuriating....I hope he has a short life....
Plus, he is free to go work somewhere else and still receive his full pension...
If he dies early, his wife will get his pension. That’s the way they set it up. Then she’ll go out and marry another “public servant”.
He won’t last long.
The dreams of his failure will haunt him.
We're literally being looted in broad day light by local, county and state governments. Economic gang rape.
“More than three times as much as a 100% disabled veteran.”
Sure......
(Hand against forehead....)
“This $100K+ and full health care is crazy for a guy that ran from a scene that resulted in the deaths of 17 kids!!!! He failed catastrophically at his job. Taxpayers should be up in arms over this.”
Betcha this does not even include a disability allowance of another obscene amount.
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