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  • Alamo

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    Breaking: FDLE announces the arrest of Scot Peterson, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School SRO whose response to the Parkland massacre has been heavily criticized, on charges including child neglect and perjury

    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...0190604-247rpiefs5abpjkv43jgdlayhi-story.html


    Peterson has been booked into the Broward Main Jail on 11 criminal charges, including child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury.



    His arrest comes after a 15-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Broward State Attorney’s Office.
    The investigation showed Peterson refused to investigate where the gunshots were coming from, retreated during the gunfire as victims were being shot, and directed other law enforcement who arrived on scene to remain 500 feet away from the building, FDLE spokeswoman Jessica Cary said in an emailed statement.

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    Peterson is facing seven felony counts of child neglect, three misdemeanor counts of culpable negligence and one misdemeanor count of perjury, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office.

    Apparently he was also fired. My memory is fuzzy, but I thought he retired? Did they bring him back and can him? No pension?
     

    KittySlayer

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    Peterson is facing seven felony counts of child neglect, three misdemeanor counts of culpable negligence and one misdemeanor count of perjury, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office.

    There ought to be some folks in the school administration and on the school board rubbing their wrist in anticipation of having cuffs applied too. The failure in this whole thing goes deeper than one coward.
     

    JettaKnight

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    It looks like he was fired this week by the new sheriff and is facing criminal charges. :rockwoot:
     

    Leadeye

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    Posturing by leadership throwing this miscreant under the bus, and making it end there.
     

    rhino

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    I don't know what the perjury charge stems from, but the other charges seem like a stretch.

    My non-attorney brain is also skeptical. I think the guy is reprehensible (assuming the allegation are true), but I don't see how being a coward is a crime. And it was decided by courts a long time ago that the police don't have a responsibility to protect any individual. If they convict him for what seems to be failing to do that (multiple times), I think an enormous can will be opened and the worms will be everywhere. If he is criminally negligent for failing to protect those kids, why aren't the local government and the school also guilty of the same for not allowing teachers and other staff to be armed?
     

    Mongo59

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    Let me fast forward for you:

    The local leaders will be seen as having made a "responsible try" to make sense of a senseless event and it will ALL be blamed on gun owners for resisting "responsible gun laws".

    Second verse same as the first, a little bit louder and a little bit worse...
     

    long coat

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    Posted this link in another thread. Not sure on perjury charges as well but i definitely don't see the other sticking. The courts have already ruled that Leo has no duty to protect, other than those in police custody.

    https://mises.org/power-market/police-have-no-duty-protect-you-federal-court-affirms-yet-again

    How about this?
    Because the kids can't leave, they are in the "states custody " Now the police have a duty to protect them.
    It's a stretch, a very big one. I don't know how they are going to make that stick.
     
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