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.
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1306824.html
See 3rd paragraph under Proceedings in above link.
https://m.openjurist.org/919/f2d/145/miller-v-best-lock-corporation
In above link, looks like it’s 4 years from when the plaintiff knew or should’ve known about the injury.
Well, we don't have a Constitutional duty to have public police departments and pay their salary through taxes either. If the police are going to be politicized, then it is time to hire private police who will do what is asked of them and what they're paid for.
I walked into a gas station and caught this
“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.”
Could not believe he could say that. Why didn’t Tapper follow up with, so you’re saying in 7 instances, protocol was not followed? It would only take one to put a legal flag on him which would have kept him from getting a fire arm.
Tapper?
LMAO
He’ll probably give himself another gold star for his collar
>> The Sheriff’s conscience is bothering him.
Then he should do the right thing and admit to the failures of the school district, the Sheriff’s dept, the FBI, and the malevolent MSM for playing along.
When even Jake Tapper doubts a DEM, you know they are really bad. Amazing? I agree - I am amazed at the Incompetence.
Taken to a new level? I would agree-the bar has been lowered so low, there’s only a millimeter left before it hits bottom.
His big mouth is going to bite him in the arse. He reeks of fake outrage. I wouldn’t be surprised if a whistleblower comes forward to tell exactly what an empty suit he is.
Showing up at all the correct political fundraisers and cocktail parties does not mean you’re good at being a sheriff.
Sounds like Pelousy: “I’m a master legislator”
Spoken like a true Democrat.
Total hubris. No shame.
Super Egos can and do lead to Super Screw-Ups. Unfortunately, people die when a top cop does that.
He is having his lawyers go over his retirement package, he can’t possibly last, he defined incompetence.
I hate to see what non leadership in Coward County would have been like....
The lizard lips lick say: “You caught me.”
That appears to be a true statement.
He certainly is making a lot of incredible statements...
Hmm, even sheriffs are trying out Orwellian speech.
philman_36-—you probably won’t see any microphones shoved into the faces of the “surviving children”, because all that’s been allowed on TV and to be covered by the media is the anti-NRA/anti-Trump Agenda-message. This is PROVABLE-—I have seen interviews with Parkland parents and their student children who CNN approached and promised air-time, if and ONLY if,they FOLLOWED CNN’S SCRIPT, which was a relentless restatement of the agenda I described above. Any examination of the FBI, and Scott Israel takes a back seat to that.
The sarcasm was implied. I’ll try to remember the /sarcasm next time.
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