I’ve been following the story of the deputy Sheriff who didn’t enter the Florida school and stop the shooter from murdering more people.
So far, the school guard has received severe criticism for not rushing in and shooting it out with the attacker. His boss, the Broward County Sheriff, jumped all over him and called him a coward. So have many others, including President Trump. Most of the media outlets have joined the narrative, and so have many of the victims.
And now we’ve heard that other deputies didn’t go in either, and that it was the Coral City Police Department that went in.
Why didn’t the Sheriff’s Department go in first, since they were the first on the scene, and why did they hang back when the Coral City PD entered the building?
I’m not going to criticize the school officer until he’s heard from and explains his side of the story.
I think a lot of departments across the country have a policy to have officers go into an active shooter situation in force. In Michigan, a minimum of three officers go in. Two facing forward, the third covering behind them. That’s what I saw during active shooter training in one of our local schools last year. What is the Broward County Sheriff’ Department’s policy?
There’s more to this story, and I think people have been hasty in criticizing former Officer Peterson. I look forward to hearing his side of things, and it may redirect attention back to the top levels of the Sheriff’s Department. Then we’ll see if he’s provided the “excellent leadership” that he claims to have provided up to and during the February 14th attack on the school, or if the deputies were following established policy.
There’s much more to the story than what has been revealed.
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