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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: Moonman62
wait a minute....no body invited this guy to speak to the media....he could have stayed silent...

he is asking for it, and we're giving it to him....

I have $8700 reasons to despise him...

41 posted on 06/04/2018 2:51:33 PM PDT by cherry
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To: conservative98

Good it should haunt him


42 posted on 06/04/2018 2:57:41 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: conservative98

I await the news that he ate his gun.


43 posted on 06/04/2018 3:09:36 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: conservative98

He’s got those “Old Yellow Stain Blues!” He’s a rare species of “skunk,” with a yellow stripe down his back! He will not live to spend his ill-gotten retirement. His guilt will cause him to take his own life. A coward dies many times, a brave man, only once.


44 posted on 06/04/2018 3:16:52 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: GrootheWanderer
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.

True. What's equally true is that it was his job to go find out where the shots were coming from, not just stand there scratching his butt.

45 posted on 06/04/2018 3:17:02 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Moonman62

” It’s a contest to see who hates him more, with little or no mention of the person who actually did the shooting.”

They are two separate issues!


46 posted on 06/04/2018 3:18:02 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: conservative98

Read elsewhere that this “poor” disgraced deputy dawg is going to start drawing a pension of over $9000.00 per month.


47 posted on 06/04/2018 3:24:04 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: conservative98
just can't admit to itself that it's a coward.
48 posted on 06/04/2018 3:39:27 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: conservative98

Mr. Peterson is referred to by basic ordinary male Americans as being “CHICKEN$HIT.”


49 posted on 06/04/2018 4:11:47 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: conservative98

If he had honor, he would have put his service weapon in his mouth and pulled the trigger.


50 posted on 06/04/2018 4:17:57 PM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: conservative98
Whatever.
51 posted on 06/04/2018 4:18:53 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: conservative98
Scaredy Cop.
52 posted on 06/04/2018 4:20:54 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: dragnet2

“The hall was crowded with students evacuating because of the fire alarm. Some would later tell investigators that they didn’t realize an active shooter was in the building. Like Peterson, they had not been able to hear or place the gunshots that were coming from the first floor.”

He was also hearing reports on his radio that people heard shots by the football field and that there were wounded in that area.


53 posted on 06/04/2018 5:07:19 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: GrootheWanderer

He stood for 4-5 minutes, right outside the building, LOOKING right at the building where shots were being fired and over a dozen were being murdered.

This BS alleging he didn’t have a clue where the shots were coming from is pie in the sky. Never buying that pap.


54 posted on 06/04/2018 5:13:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: conservative98

SO NOW, HE’S A VICTIM.


55 posted on 06/04/2018 5:53:08 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: conservative98

When the chips were down, he crapped his pants.

End of story.


56 posted on 06/04/2018 5:54:59 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: conservative98

Why do all these Broward County Deputies have guts that hang over their belts?


57 posted on 06/04/2018 5:55:06 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: faucetman

It took you that long?


58 posted on 06/04/2018 5:59:44 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Lurker
"..In some societies a person who failed so utterly in their duty would fall on their own sword.."

Serenity. But not "now". d;^)

59 posted on 06/04/2018 6:08:02 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: 5th MEB

When he left the force he was $16,000. in debt. #metoo


60 posted on 06/04/2018 6:24:18 PM PDT by conservative98
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