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Disgraced deputy haunted by failure at Florida school shooting
NY Post ^ | June 4, 2018 | Tamar Lapin

Posted on 06/04/2018 1:41:32 PM PDT by conservative98

The disgraced Florida sheriff’s deputy who stayed outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a killer stalked its halls has spent the 90 days since the massacre wondering why he failed to save lives, according to a report.

“It’s haunting,” Scot Peterson said in a Washington Post report published Monday. “I’ve cut that day up a thousand ways with a million different what-if scenarios, but the bottom line is I was there to protect, and I lost 17.”

Since the Valentine’s Day attack at the Parkland school — where 17 people were killed and 17 more injured — Peterson has lost his job with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, been dubbed the “Coward of Broward” in local media and been served with a lawsuit from a parent whose daughter died in the shooting.

According to the newspaper, he now spends most of his days hiding in the duplex he shares with his girlfriend, armed with a motion detector and a sheet covering his front door, replaying every minute of the shooting.

He’s rewatched surveillance footage, read witness statements and studied dozens of pages of documents, trying to figure out what happened.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; deputy; florida; parkland; scotpeterson; stonemandouglas
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To: sevlex

An honorable thing to do would be to eat “it” because the blood is on his hands and he was a coward.


21 posted on 06/04/2018 1:58:11 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ridesthemiles

I think he lost the trailer when he retired.


22 posted on 06/04/2018 2:00:19 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: conservative98

No.
NO WAY!

His ‘job’—so to speak—was to see that his little criminal kiddie-poos in that school DID NOT get arrest records, no matter what.

No school-to-prison-pipeline for THEM, nosir!


23 posted on 06/04/2018 2:02:17 PM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: max americana

He’s the type brave ahole cop that will act as a tough guy and give you hard time for having an out of date inspection sticker on your car especially if you a middle aged white guy in a suit and tie.


24 posted on 06/04/2018 2:02:58 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: ridesthemiles

That comes to $8,666.00 per month. How does this coward possibly get by on that?


25 posted on 06/04/2018 2:04:10 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: conservative98

According to the WaPo piece, he says he could not tell where the gunshots were coming from, something that students and others present that day also said. The 911 calls that were coming in where students were telling dispatchers where the gunman was were being routed to the Coral Gables police department which used a different radio frequency, so he didn’t know about any of that.


26 posted on 06/04/2018 2:04:48 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: GrootheWanderer

He should’ve went looking for where they were coming from instead of standing in one place...Out of harm’s way...


27 posted on 06/04/2018 2:09:51 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Moonman62

He was there to stop such people.

One doesn’t have to voice condemnation of the shooter every time, that condemnation goes without saying.


28 posted on 06/04/2018 2:11:58 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

So what you’re saying is you don’t get any virtue signalling points for condemning the shooter.


29 posted on 06/04/2018 2:18:54 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Moonman62

It’s one of the least attractive things about FR.


30 posted on 06/04/2018 2:21:22 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: GrootheWanderer

Come on. He stood for 4-5 minutes, right outside the building where shots were being fired and over a dozen were being murdered. And he allegedly didn’t have a clue where the shots were coming from?

Not buying it. No sale.


31 posted on 06/04/2018 2:25:32 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: conservative98

“The disgraced Florida sheriff’s deputy who stayed outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a killer stalked its halls has spent the 90 days since the massacre wondering why he failed to save lives,”

I spent about 2 seconds ..... you are a COWARD.

Get a different type of job, where no one really counts on you.


32 posted on 06/04/2018 2:26:55 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: conservative98

The Coward of Broward has regrets?

Imagine how the victims parents feel, buddy.


33 posted on 06/04/2018 2:29:55 PM PDT by null and void (Have the courage to shine the light of reason in a dark world)
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To: conservative98; All

You know who would not have shirked?

An armed volunteer parent.

Tempted to say G - D the “educators” who continue to reject the obvious and immediate fix for the next 5, 10, 50 school shootings.


34 posted on 06/04/2018 2:30:16 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: Moonman62

That’s not what I’m saying at all.


35 posted on 06/04/2018 2:32:54 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: old-ager
You know who would not have shirked?

I know who did not shirk. Unarmed coach Aaron Feis. Unarmed and unarmored, he put his own body between the shooter and his students.

If he carried he, and perhaps a dozen students would still be alive today.

Arm the Aarons!

36 posted on 06/04/2018 2:36:46 PM PDT by null and void (Have the courage to shine the light of reason in a dark world)
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To: null and void; All

> Arm the Aarons!

amen


37 posted on 06/04/2018 2:40:38 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: conservative98
oh go suck on your $8700 monthly pension at age 50!

you're nothing but a coward, a nobody, destined to do nothing of importance in this life and stealing from the poor taxpayers for your undeserved pension.....

people like this little yellow belly make me sick...

38 posted on 06/04/2018 2:49:08 PM PDT by cherry
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To: conservative98
More fake news out of New York

Peterson has lost his job

He retired with a massive pension.

39 posted on 06/04/2018 2:49:54 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: sevlex
“A coward dies a thousand times....”

A man who places himself in a dangerous duty will never know how he will react until he faces that danger for real.

This man failed miserably.

40 posted on 06/04/2018 2:51:13 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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