Posted on 02/25/2018 7:35:05 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said he had provided "amazing leadership" to his department on Sunday, drawing disbelief from CNN host Jake Tapper.
Tapper pressed Israel during a nearly half-hour interview about the response of his department before and during the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead.
Israel announced Thursday that school resource officer Scot Peterson had been suspended and decided to retire rather than be terminated after learning Peterson failed to enter the school during the massacre and engage the shooter.
Israel also defended the conduct of his department in response to the 18 calls its deputies got about the killer, Nikolas Cruz, including fears he could be a "school shooter in the making." No report was initiated upon that tip.
Tapper asked Israel, who participated in CNN's town hall on guns on Wednesday and called for stronger gun control laws, if he could see how the public would be critical when it saw so many red flags go ignored by the department.
"How could there not even be a report on this one?" Tapper asked.
"If that's accurate, Jake, there needed to be a report and that's what we're looking in to, that a report needed to be completed, it needed to be forwarded to our homeland security or violent crimes unit and they would've followed up on it," Israel said.
Tapper noted Israel's conditional remarks, pointing out it was notes from Israel's own department. Israel responded the officer who handled that situation was on restrictive duty.
"I've exercised my due diligence, I've led this county proudly as I always have," he said. "We have restricted that deputy as we look in to it. You know, deputies make mistakes, police officers make mistakes, we all make mistakes, but it's not the responsibility of the general or the president, if you have a deserter. You look into this. We're looking into this aggressively, and we'll take care of it and justice will be served."
"Are you really not taking any responsibility for the multiple red flags that were brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriff's Office about this shooter before the incident?" Tapper asked.
"Jake, I can only take responsibility for what I knew about. I exercised my due diligence. I've given amazing leadership to this agency—" Israel started.
"Amazing leadership? Tapper asked incredulously.
"Yes, Jake. There's a lot of things we've done throughout this—this is—you don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy not going into these deputies received the training they needed—" Israel said.
"Maybe you measure somebody's leadership by whether or not they protect the community," Tapper said. "In this case, you've listed 23 incidents before the shooting involving the shooter and still nothing was done to keep guns out of his hands, to make sure that the school was protected, to make sure you were keeping an eye on him … I don't understand how you can sit there and claim amazing leadership."
Israel said on "16 of those cases," his deputies did everything right and in the five years he had been sheriff, he'd taken the department to a "new level."
"One person didn't do what he should have done," Israel said. "It's horrific. The victims here, the families, I pray for them every night. It makes me sick to my stomach that we had a deputy that didn't go in because I know if I was there, if I was on the wall, I would have been the first in along with so many other people.
Well, I’m certainly amazed. Amazed that a corrupt jerk like this has continued in office:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3635118/posts
He must be Obama’s long lost brother.
Footage shows the school resource officer did not enter the school during the attack
Amazing how we know of all this criminality in this country day after day yet no one is held accountable no one, no one goes to jail, no one gets indicted no one
Fir those that don’t know Broward county...this POS will be reelected in a landslide...
Unfortunately not much will come of this...they will get the pensions, the insurance company will make a few payments, taxpayers will eat it and a year from now it will be the families and gun owners still dealing with it..
Supreme Court Ruled Police have no requirement for individual..... Justices Ruled Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone. Settled law unfortunately. Add in this was government property, not private property, thus you the individual and taxpayer have less than zero rights.
Ironic the 2nd Amendment was written to protect the individual which the Supreme Court explains in the above rulings yet we have Government telling us more Government is the answer to a complete government failure while restricting the 2nd Amendment is good and necessary... failures locally like this to 9/11... Government failures, citizens die and financially pay for it and the answers is take more rights away and add more Government Employees to solve it!!!! Ha!
Time to reduce the size of Government across the board... repeal the 16th Amendment and 17th Amendment... Government will go a serious reduction and the economy will grow. States will have to decide how big a Government they want, not the Federal Government.
Many Government employees such as this Sheriff will have to compete in the market economy...
This less than optimal specimen of a Sheriff is not fit to run a fork lift on a loading dock, yet he will retire better than most tax payers. Time to get Government out of the economy so people like this Sheriff are properly employed and have no responsibility for the rights and protection of others and have to earn their way through life and not hide behind a badge and some mythical “protect and Serve” union funded line of horsesh*t.
Thanks for posting!
Is there a statute of limitations on RICO crimes ?
I've seen way too many instances where police shoot unarmed people and get away with it to believe that there will be any consequences for this sheriff or his men.
S/O/L on RICO’s? Dont know.
Police have no duty to protect was a Supreme Court decision. Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005)
Jun 28, 2005 … Supreme Court rules that police do not have constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who obtained court-issued protective order.
So a multi=part form wasn’t submitted and 17 died? and he’s proud of his department’s actions and personnel that quiver when they hear gunfire?
He needs to be brought up for charges.. dereliction of duty,, lack of the ability to conduct himself in accordance with accepted practices,, something a lot of public officials in liebral positions seem to be intent on of late.. Oh I know, it’s not all his fault.. there is plenty of blame to go around from the school board to the “resource” officer.
This evidences the pressure he’s under.......Trapper loves to play “God”....and the Sheriff likely falsely believed Trapper would grant a pass and stage to explain, Foolishly forgetting Trapper’s nature is to pin people down and rise the victor!
Wow Liz your post 21 spells it all out......I am thinking he is a democrat creep
We need a nick name for this idiot. Sheriff Hornblower?
He just had 17 innocents die on his watch and he says he has provided magnificent leadership?
I think Sheriff Hornblower needs to go int a corn maze, with a pistol, against an armed man with an AR-15.
Anybody that would say that about themselves is immediately suspect. I would put stock in somebody who said, "I gave it my best. It's all in the hands of the people I'll stay or go based on what they want." Somebody who is just positive that he's Mr. Wonderful should be gone yesterday.
He knows, if only at a subconscious level, that he is partly to blame for the death of students.
I'll add that he (and probably CNN) are feeling the heat; starting with that propaganda event called a 'town hall', and now the latest revaluations about multiple officers literally 'standing down' while kids were being murdered. Add to all of this - having prior knowledge that this was a possibility with the shooter.
So, what 'heat' am I referring to?
By now, I'm figuring lawyers for about 30 families are now demanding key evidence about procedures that took place in the months before and especially during the event of February 14 (e.g. details of every police visit to the home). The Sheriff's office is probably aware of these requests; as well as the Florida Attorney General's office.
I would suspect meetings between the Sheriff, the police officers Union, and the legal team will be begin Monday and continue daily until further notice. Calls being made to Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz's office for a federal stipend to prevent the absolute bankruptcy of the Boward County Sheriff's office due to lawsuits that may total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Not to mention their NRA insider reporting a banner week for new memberships. So keep talking, Sheriff Israel. We're all taking notes.
Hot enough for you?
But then again, just my $.02
jimjohn - OUT
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