{"id":95253,"date":"2018-02-24T10:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95253"},"modified":"2018-02-24T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:40:28","slug":"four-broward-county-law-enforcement-officers-waited-outside-douglas-high-during-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95253","title":{"rendered":"Four Broward County Law Enforcement Officers &#8216;Waited Outside Douglas High During School Shooting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Report: Four of Sheriff Scott Israel\u2019s Deputies Waited Outside Douglas High During School Shooting<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_95254\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-918375578-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95254\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-918375578-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-918375578-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-918375578-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by AWR HAWKINS<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h2>A report released Friday claims four of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel\u2019s deputies waited outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while the attack was occurring.<\/h2>\n<p>On February 22 Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/02\/22\/sheriffs-deputy-resigns-to-avoid-suspension-after-failing-to-engage-florida-school-gunman\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that one deputy resigned after it was learned that he was on scene but failed to control Nikolas Cruz. Sheriff Israel\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/abc13.com\/sheriff-school-resource-deputy-never-went-in-to-confront-shooter\/3125942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">told<\/a>\u00a0ABC 13 that video shows the deputy, Scott Peterson, \u201carrive\u00a0at the west side of Building 12\u201d and \u201ctake a position\u201d outside the school \u2014 but never go inside. The sheriff\u2019s office moved to suspend Peterson, who resigned before the suspension could take place.<\/p>\n<p>Now CNN\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/23\/politics\/parkland-school-shooting-broward-deputies\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that the Coral Springs police officers claim\u00a0three other Broward County deputies were outside the school but failed to go inside as well. They quote \u201cCoral Springs sources\u201d who said the three \u201cdeputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles\u201d when Coral Springs officers arrived. They said \u201cnot one of [the deputies] had gone into the school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sources indicate other Broward County deputies arrived on scene, and two of those new arrivals joined with Coral Springs officers and entered the building.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said, \u201cCoral Springs police were stunned and upset that the four original Broward County Sheriff\u2019s deputies who were first on the scene did not appear to join them as they entered the school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coral Springs Police Department public information officer\u00a0Sgt. Carla Kmiotek would not comment on what Broward County deputies did or did not do. Rather, \u201cThe Coral Springs Police Department will speak on behalf of our officers and their response in that incident,\u201d\u00a0she said. \u201cWe will not speak on behalf of Broward Sheriff\u2019s deputies and their response to the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/02\/23\/report-four-sheriff-scott-israels-deputies-waited-outside-douglas-high-school-shooting\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/02\/23\/report-four-sheriff-scott-israels-deputies-waited-outside-douglas-high-school-shooting\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Four of Sheriff Scott Israel\u2019s Deputies Waited Outside Douglas High During School Shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}