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Trump calls campus deputy who hid from school gunman a 'coward'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5427207/Trump-says-cop-hid-gunman-coward.html ^ | Feb. 23, 2018 | Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent and Abigail Miller For Dailymail.com

Posted on 02/23/2018 8:56:56 AM PST by dragnet2

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Trump calls campus deputy who hid from school gunman a 'coward' and says: 'He certainly did a poor job'

'So he certainly did a poor job,' Trump repeated. 'But that's a case where, somebody who was outside, they're trained, they didn't react properly under pressure or they were a coward. It was a real shot to the police department.'

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To: robroys woman
It’s about a complete and utter failure of law enforcement at multiple levels

Actually it wasn't failure at all.

The Sheriff's Department had an agreement with Broward County schools to NOT MAKE ARRESTS. The Campus Deputy would have had to violate this agreement if he tried to stop and arrest the shooter.

41 posted on 02/23/2018 9:25:54 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: dragnet2

42 posted on 02/23/2018 9:26:23 AM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

This was about 20 years ago. Honestly, I shocked myself because I never really thought I’d respond that way. We looked over, and a block away this kid comes running around a corner at full speed, followed soon by a pack of seven or eight other kids, clearly catching up. Once they got to him it was mayhem like I’ve never seen this side of a movie screen. I handed my coffee to my wife (we’d stopped for starbucks) and, at first, I remember thinking, “this could be dangerous”, but saw what they were doing to this kid and I just ignored that thought and went in full speed. As I got there a taxi stopped and he ran over to the fray and the two of us were just pulling these kids out of the way, yelling for them to stop.

Honestly, I think the Lord was protecting us and also I think what I call the “cats and dogs” theory may have applied a little. That is, they are cats and we are dogs. In a neighborhood, cats don’t respond to the arrival of a stray dog, but they’ll tear a new cat to pieces. They don’t mess with dogs. Only cats. If we had been a couple of asian guys it may have gone differently. But that’s only a theory.


43 posted on 02/23/2018 9:26:32 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: rightwingcrazy; HiTech RedNeck
>> but it seems premature to label him a “coward”. The hero in him might simply have been trained away, for example, due to poor local police policies set in place. <<

I agree too, and Donald has something to learn yet about shooting from the hip.

Yeah, maybe it wasn't cowardice at all, but rather embarrassment over the stench emanating from his pants.

44 posted on 02/23/2018 9:26:55 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
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To: rightwingcrazy
The hero in him might simply have been trained away, for example, due to poor local police policies set in place.

And in their crazed effort to prove Trump wrong, the media will expose that very fact. Just don't tell anyone I said that.

45 posted on 02/23/2018 9:28:05 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Donald did allow more possibilities though.


46 posted on 02/23/2018 9:31:44 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: JoSixChip

“I bet Trump never used the work “Coward”. The media lies, lies, lies and then lies some more.”

He sure did, he said it to a reporter as he was leaving the WH.


47 posted on 02/23/2018 9:34:18 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Heh, working on it. I think I will concentrate on the “aim small” part...


48 posted on 02/23/2018 9:34:23 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: JoSixChip

You are wrong.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/23/trump-calls-sheriffs-deputy-a-coward-for-failure-to-stop-florida-shooter/


49 posted on 02/23/2018 9:35:27 AM PST by ilovesarah2012 (I)
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To: COBOL2Java

Everyone considered him the Coward of the County.


50 posted on 02/23/2018 9:37:22 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dragnet2

What’s wrong with Trump calling a spade a spade?


51 posted on 02/23/2018 9:40:03 AM PST by circlecity
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To: COBOL2Java

Perfect!

The Coward of Coward county. He was no Audie Murphy.


52 posted on 02/23/2018 9:40:06 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Paradox

I just read where the guy thinks he did a good job by calling it in, identifying the shooter, and “setting up a perimeter”.

If that was his job and that is what he was trained to do, I would have to have words with whoever wrote that policy.

If I had a weapon, could I set up a perimeter and hear gunshots and screams, and stay put? I don’t think I could, and I HOPE I couldn’t, even if that means going against my training and policies and losing my job.


53 posted on 02/23/2018 9:40:50 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Most cops never have to, many do not practice sufficiently to be decent shots.”

But yet they almost always have good enough aim to kill someone’s family pet.


54 posted on 02/23/2018 9:41:32 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: JoSixChip
I bet Trump never used the work “Coward”. The media lies, lies, lies and then lies some more.

The video is at the link. Trump said "...he didn't have the courage..." Where is that different from saying he was a coward?

55 posted on 02/23/2018 9:42:02 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: rightwingcrazy
Maybe the President knows more than I do about the cop, but it seems premature to label him a “coward”.

Premature? The shooting occurred about 9 or 10 days ago. They know exactly where Peterson was and what he as doing.

He was outside the building where the shooting was in progress, I believe the west side of building 12. And stayed in that position for about 4-5 minutes, never entering the building. Each round he heard going off was likely a young kid being brutally murdered.

56 posted on 02/23/2018 9:42:25 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

He just became a hero to the leftists, soon to discuss his feelings on cnn, msnbc, etc.


57 posted on 02/23/2018 9:44:13 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Suppose he’d shot Cruz AND somebody else.

Wouldn't that also be a possibility had armed teachers been present and responded?

58 posted on 02/23/2018 9:45:13 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Bonemaker; dfwgator

If there’s any justice in this world the Broward Coward will be shunned the rest of his life.


59 posted on 02/23/2018 9:45:50 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: rightwingcrazy

The hero in him might simply have been trained away, for example, due to poor local police policies set in place.

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Very possible.

And as I read this -

https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/966854970594287616

it occurs to me that Peterson actually might have been ordered to STAND DOWN.

He certainly was under previous orders to ignore teen violence. So he failed to respond to the shootings?

Just part of the job.


60 posted on 02/23/2018 9:48:27 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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