Posted on 02/26/2018 4:20:47 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - While the Broward Sheriff's Office has handled the forensic investigation into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last week, it was another police agency's officers that were the first to rush into the building to save those who had been shot.
About 130 cops from the Coral Springs Police Department responded to the shooting at the school, which borders the city and is about three miles from the station, Police Chief Anthony Pustizzi told Local 10 News in an exclusive interview.
Roughly 40 of those officers rushed into the building, where 23 victims were carried out to medics. Of those victims, 20 survived, the chief said.
Pustizzi commended Stoneman Douglas staff members, saying they were the first ones to try to help save students' lives. He also praised officers from numerous agencies who assisted in the effort, including two Broward sheriff's deputies who entered the building.
The BSO deputy assigned as the school's resource officer, Scot Peterson, resigned Thursday after learning he was under investigation for failing to enter the building while the shooting was underway.
Pustizzi said officers who did enter the building will need support after responding to the shooting and seeing things that "humans aren't meant to see."
"I've been a police officer for 30 years," Pustizzi said at a press conference following the interview. "You know, humans aren't meant to see this kind of tragedy, but the officers that went in there, the dispatchers that heard it, the firemen that treated the people -- you know, there's obviously a lot of support that needs to be given to them, as well."
By the time they stormed the building, the shooting had stopped, but officers didn't know the whereabouts of the gunman, Nikolas Cruz.
"I'm thinking, you know, this is a real one. You train for this day. You hope it never happens, but you only have one way and that's straight in, and you hope that a bullet doesn't find you, as well, but that's a possibility," Pustizzi said.
Pustizzi didn't need to go in. His officers were already securing the building when he arrived. He set up a command post in the parking lot, which turned into a triage center.
"All the training paid off," he said. "We did exactly what I would have hoped our officers did. They attacked the problem."
But Pustizzi said his officers, like so many others, are still dealing with the trauma of that day and some are receiving counseling.
"If you talk to the officers at Columbine, they'll tell you the same thing," Pustizzi said. "You'll never forget, you know, those kids, those teachers. They'll never forget what they saw."
During the news conference, Pustizzi also addressed reports about a tape-delay while officers were reviewing the school's security footage.
"There was a 20-minute delay," he said. "The delay never put us in a situation where any kids' lives were in danger or any teachers' lives were in danger. The delay was simply when we got there and the (Broward) Sheriff's Office and our officers and other officers from the community went into that building -- the key is to get as much intelligence as possible.
"The issue was more of a communication failure on who was reviewing the tape, letting other guys know that it was a 20-minute delay that they were reviewing. So as you can imagine -- you heard some of the dispatch tapes from the Sheriff's Office -- at first, the guys are hearing, 'Oh, he's on the second floor. Well, it's not true because we had people on the second floor."
Broward County Public Schools spokeswoman Tracy Clark said in an email that the school's cameras do have the ability to be viewed in real time.
"The surveillance system definitely has the ability to view the cameras in real-time," Clark said. "It also has the ability to view the recorded footage and replay footage from earlier in the day. During the immediate response to the event, the system was being viewed in real-time and the recorded footage was being viewed to retrace the actions of the shooter."
Clark said the district no longer has access to the footage, "as the server and all footage related to the incident was removed from the district's possession through a search warrant as part of the investigation to the event."
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a news conference he didn't know about the supposed security system delays, but would look into it.
Pustizzi said his police department will conduct in-depth reviews of their response to the shooting to make sure they learn from any possible mistakes.
"Anytime we have a serious event, we look at everything," he said. "We hawk it. We try to make sure that we learn from, not only our own mistakes, but anything that anyone else does so we don't repeat those mistakes."
They did their job and can look their own families and kids in the eye with a clear conscious.
Thank God CSPD were near by rather than the Broward Sheriff's team.
Broward County Public Schools spokeswoman Tracy Clark said in an email that the school’s cameras do have the ability to be viewed in real time.
“The surveillance system definitely has the ability to view the cameras in real-time,” Clark said. “It also has the ability to view the recorded footage and replay footage from earlier in the day.During the immediate response to the event, the system was being viewed in real-time and the recorded footage was being viewed to retrace the actions of the shooter.”
Clark said the district no longer has access to the footage, “as the server and all footage related to the incident was removed from the district’s possession through a search warrant as part of the investigation to the event.”
“as the server and all footage related to the incident was removed from the district’s possession through a search warrant as part of the investigation to the event.”
The video will never see the light of day, how convenient...
Putting it on delay removed the onus of responding to criminal acts in real time, which jibes with their stated policy of no arrests to keep the crime stats pretty. Fat-assed bureaucrats get pretty devious and creative when it comes to getting more money. It’s the capitalist impulse mutated beyond recognition, sort of like homosexuals picking and choosing their sex partners on the basis of good looks, not that it matters for any progeny because they can’t make any, but that’s the biological drive for an attractive mate, genetic fitness of offspring.
I am sure the DNC is trying to get this Israel pos to some seminar in Foggy Bottom Mississippi so they can keep him out of the news cycle until they can decide where to dispose of him. Away from public record.
Note the difference: Sheriff Israel (BSO) hires his RAT-campaign donors kids & his RAT-friends.
Coral Springs PD hires a lot of ex-military guys, like this Marine——
Officer Chris Crawford, heard reports of the school shooting... He drove so fast to get to the school, at about 100 mph, that he scared himself, he said. He was one of the first on the scene and helped rescue a 14-year-old boy.
He grabbed his rifle, and started running. He was maybe the 12th or 13th officer to arrive, and a sergeant was bringing out an injured boy. The sergeant said the teen had been shot “a bunch of times” and told Crawford to take care of him.
But the teen couldn’t make it to the ambulance, he couldn’t breathe, he said. So Crawford pulled out combat gauze to stop the bleeding and also “stuffed gauze” in the boy’s back. A second officer put pressure on the child’s back with his knee.
The boy had also been wounded in his shoulder, thigh and arm.
Another girl Crawford treated had gunshot or shrapnel injuries to her wrist and toe, he said. After the paramedics took over, Crawford, WHO SERVED AS A MARINE, ran to the 1200 building, where much of the shooting took place.
He found a classroom and storage area where 70 students and three teachers were hiding. He said he had to convince them to remove the barricades to the door — he slipped his ID under the door as proof and was then interrogated about his ID number. “I forgot my phone or I would have FaceTimed with them,” he said. “I had to negotiate with [them] to come out. I don’t blame them.”
What he saw the day of the shooting was “awful,” he said. It’s “as bad as you can imagine — times 10,” he said. “I have a 2-year-old. I don’t want to send him to school.”
Unbelievable.
Coral Springs officers arrived and blew right past the Cowards of Broward, into the building, believing they were running straight into an active shooter.
At least 4 Cowards of Broward deputies were outside, hiding behind their cars, when CSPD blew in and past them, to take care of business.
The Cowards of Broward were apparantly commanded by a female Major or Captain (probably over radio) while hiding. And they apparanetly told the CSPD guys to not go in.
CSPD said “f’yall” and stormed right in.
Of the 4 or 5 Cowards od Broward hiding, only 2 joined the CSPD AFTER they led the charge.
Good God.
Whose search warrant? The BSO? The FBI?
I hope the FDLE that Gov. Scott assigned yesterday to investigate has taken possession of that tape.
The officers who responded are obviously more traumatized than some of the students who are going around the country being interviewed...
Thank you Coral Springs for having the balls to do a dangerous job
Well, we know who should be the next sheriff then.
So, the CCTV could be viewed in real time as well as on tape delay
The 20 minute delay story verges on Fake News. While true, not the reality
Ain’t that odd. Very odd, indeed. When looking up Hogg’s name, early on, the Gonzalez family surfaced. Same name as the cue-ball came up at his address. That’s odd, too.
If it's not "real-time"...it's not surveillance. It's documentation.
Whoever came up with that idea needs a good ass-kicking.
“Cowards of Broward”
I hope that sticks.
Anything would be an improvement. Since Israel was just elected, the interim replacement could serve for the next 3 years.
What is amazing is that NOT one but four sheriff’s deputies hid behind cars instead of storming Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. How long were they going to cower? What if he kept shooting- dozens more instead of leaving.
After the Coral Springs police entered the building to engage the shooter on their own, a new batch of BSO deputies arrived on the scene. But only two of those cops — plus an officer from Sunrise, Florida — joined the CS police inside the building. They weren’t sure if Cruz was still inside the building.
At the candlelight vigil Feb 15, The Coral Springs City Manager, Mike Goodrum, asked Sheriff Israel why his men had stayed in the parking lot. What about the severely injured kids who were still alive, but dying inside the building while his deputies hung around outside? There’s a brief amount of time to stop someone from bleeding out.
Israel has been saying that by the time the CSPD had arrived, Cruz was long gone. How did he know that? And assuming that he did. What were is men waiting for? Were they were waiting for the wounded to crawl out to the ambulances?
And there’s this:
In comments to the Miami Herald — Sheriff Israel seemed to suggest that, even had these three deputies charged into Building 12 of Douglas HS, it would have been too late anyway. (Too late, all dead!)
“We know it was approximately four minutes after the shooter departed the school when the first Coral Springs police officers arrived,’’ Israel told the paper. “We’re investigating every aspect of this.”
Again, the shooter is gone. Cops will be safe. His cops still don’t enter to help the dying kids and attempt to save their lives. What a POS. Something is really wrong with the BSO. Israel is at the helm, spinning their cowardice and ineptitude into heroism.
It's too late. The Republic campaign ads are already in full production.....and he stars in all of them.
Israel is the perfect progressive in word and deed. Every Democrat candidate is running for the hills, as we type.
“About 130 cops from the Coral Springs Police Department responded to the shooting at the school”
“Pustizzi ... set up a command post in the parking lot, which turned into a triage center.”
Doing the jobs that Parkland citizens won’t do.
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