Man, this is bad. So that one guy that everyone is calling a coward for not entering the Florida school shooting says that he didn’t go in because he thought the shooting was from outside.
From the Miami Herald:
Roundly vilified for not entering a Parkland high school during a mass shooting, Broward Deputy Scot Peterson insisted publicly that he believed that gunfire was happening outside on campus — not from inside the building.
BUT… that’s not what he said on the recording from the call he made that day:
But internal radio dispatches released by the sheriff’s office Thursday show Peterson immediately fixated on Building 12 and even radioed that gunfire was happening “inside.”
And, just as school shooter Nikolas Cruz was fleeing the building after killing 17 people, Peterson warned his fellow officers to stay away — even as wounded students and staff lay inside.
BSO policy calls for deputies to engage an active shooter and eliminate the threat.
“Do not approach the 12 or 1300 building, stay at least 500 feet away,” Peterson said over the radio, according to the records released Thursday.
The second-by-second timeline and audio recording of police radio chatter sheds new light on the chaotic and much scrutinized law-enforcement response to the bloodshed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on Feb. 14, the state’s worst school shooting.
Yeah dude, sorry but you’re screwed based on what you called in. It looks like he was just covering his coward @$$ from not entering the building and possibly saving some lives. And I know that’s easy for me to say, but it ain’t my job to save lives from armed madmen, it IS this cop’s job…
Listen below: