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Coral Springs Officers Angry
That Broward Deputies
FAILED To Enter High School
During Shooting Spree
Sources: Coral Springs police upset at some Broward deputies for not entering school
By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent
(CNN) When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriff’s deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.
With direction from the Broward deputies who were outside, Coral Springs police soon entered the building where the shooter was. New Broward County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene, and two of those deputies and an officer from Sunrise, Florida, joined the Coral Springs police as they went into the building.
Some Coral Springs police were stunned and upset that the four original Broward County Sheriff’s deputies who were first on the scene did not appear to join them as they entered the school, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. It’s unclear whether the shooter was still in the building when they arrived.
What these Coral Springs officers observed — though not their feelings about it — will be released in a report, likely next week. Sources cautioned that tapes are currently being reviewed and official accounts could ultimately differ from recollections of officers on the scene.
The resentment among Coral Springs officials toward Broward County officials about what they perceived to be a dereliction of duty may have reached a boiling point at a vigil the night of February 15, where, in front of dozens of others, Coral Springs City Manager Mike Goodrum confronted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. A source familiar with the conversation tells CNN that Goodrum was upset that the Broward deputies had remained outside the school while kids inside could have been bleeding out, among other reasons.
Goodrum said in a statement to CNN, “Given the horrific events of that day emotions were running high and the sheriff and I had a heated moment the following evening. Sheriff Israel and I have spoken several times since and I can assure you that our departments have a good working relationship and the utmost respect for each other.” Goodrum declined to comment on the content of their conversation.
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Sgt. Carla Kmiotek, public information officer for the Coral Springs Police Department, would not comment about CNN’s story. “The Coral Springs Police Department will speak on behalf of our officers and their response in that incident,” she said. ” We will not speak on behalf of Broward Sheriff’s deputies and their response to the incident.”
“Our police department has continued to work alongside the Broward Sheriff’s Office to assist in any investigation pertaining to this incident,” the department said later in a statement. “The Coral Springs Police Department has a tremendous working relationship with the men and women of the Broward Sheriff’s Office, and while we are being transparent through this investigation, everyone should respect the process. There were countless deputies and officers who responded on that fateful day from multiple jurisdictions, whose actions were nothing short of heroic. As already reported, any actions or inactions that negatively affected the response will be investigated thoroughly, and the information will be released officially from the proper agency spokesperson.
Two days after the shooting, Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi addressed some of the concerns voiced by his officers in an internal email obtained by CNN that said, among other items, “I understand that another agency has given the impression that it had provided the majority of the rescue efforts, and that the tremendous work of the Coral Springs Police and Fire Departments has not been recognized. Please know that this issue will be addressed, and the truth will come out in time. The focus for us now, however, must be on healing — for ourselves, our families, our community and those residents surrounding us. While recognition is not the reason we choose to do what we do, our Commission, City Manager and residents are well aware of the actions our members took in the face of danger and the heroes that you are.”
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to CNN that it is investigating the claims that, in addition to Peterson, three other deputies did not try to enter the high school after the shooting began.
Information about ways the Broward County Sheriff’s Office didn’t sufficiently handle the shooter both before and during the incident started coming out in full force on Thursday, when Broward County Sheriff Israel announced that video showed Deputy Peterson outside the building where students were being shot for “upwards of four minutes.
“What I saw was a deputy arrive … take up a position and he never went in,” Israel said at a news conference. Israel said Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.” Peterson was suspended without pay, after which he resigned.
County Superintendent Robert Runcie said, “I’m in shock and I’m outraged to no end that he could have made a difference in all this. It’s really disturbing that we had a law enforcement individual there specifically for this reason, and he did not engage. He did not do his job. It’s one of the most unbelievable things I’ve ever heard.”
Israel also announced an investigation into how two other deputies had handled warnings about the gunman prior to the shooting.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/parkland-school-shooting-broward-deputies/index.html
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74 Florida Republicans Call on Florida Governor to REMOVE "INCOMPETENT" murderously CORRUPT if not TREASONOUS Broward Co. Sheriff Scott ISRAEL...
Republican Florida Legislators Demand Br. Co.
Sheriff SCOTT ISRAEL’s BE FIRED - NOW!
Posted on February 26, 2018 by State of the Nation
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(John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)
By Solange Reyner
NEWSMAX
Florida State House Speaker Richard Corcoran and 73 other Republicans on Sunday sent a letter to Gov. Rick Scott calling for the suspension of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel “incompetence and neglect of duty.”
Israel has been under intense criticism since announcing the school resourse officer, who was employed by Israel’s office, took a position outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida during the Feb. 14 mass shooting that killed 17. Israel said the officer should have entered the building and attempted to stop the shooter.
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Richard Corcoran
✔@richardcorcoran
Today I sent the following letter to @FLGovScott Asking that he suspend Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for incompetence and dereliction of duty. I was honored to be joined by 73 Republican colleagues. You can read the letter attached here.
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The letter comes one day after Florida Republican State Rep. Bill Hager sent Scott his own letter alleging “neglect of duty and incompetence.”
Israel on Sunday told CNN’s Jake Tapper his agency was investigating BSO’s response and that an armed sheriff’s deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School waited outside one of the buildings for “upwards of four minutes.” CNN earlier this weekend reported that Coral Springs police officers arrived at the scene to find that three additional BSO deputies had not entered the school.
BSO has been criticized for its response to the shooting, and for missteps with the shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, prior to the incident. BSO reportedly received warnings about Cruz but didn’t flag him as a threat.
“An investigation by Sheriff Israel into the unfathomable inaction of those deputies will do nothing to bring back the 17 victims,” said Hager, the House Justice Appropriations chairman, in a letter to Scott. “The sheriff was fully aware of the threat this individual presented to his community and chose to ignore it.”
“Sadly, he was not the only one that ignore it. DCF, Broward County Schools, the FBI and the BSO all had pivotal information but failed to act appropriately and failed to communicate appropriately.”
Scott on Sunday said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement will “immediately begin their process,” into how police officers responded to the shooting.
“Let me be perfectly clear. Our investigation to this point shows that during this horrific attack, while this killer was inside the school, there was only one law enforcement person, period. And that was former deputy Scot Peterson,” Israel said, referring to a school resource officer. “Coral Springs arrived, a group of Coral Springs officers went in within I think about four minutes, we’re projecting, after the killer left the campus. I understand that they’re going to give statements to us regarding the other three, four, five deputies. At this point, we have no reason to believe anyone acted incorrectly or correctly. That’s what an investigation is.”
A survivor of the school shooting also called on Israel to resign.
“He failed to act on so many different levels and him himself, he is responsible for this massive failure. It could have been easily stopped both by the FBI and the sheriff’s department had they acted,” Kyle Kashuv told “America’s News HQ.”
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https://www.newsmax.com/us/rick-scorr-fdle-police-response-mass-shooting/2018/02/25/id/845357/
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Posted on February 26, 2018 by State of the Nation
(John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)
By Solange Reyner
NEWSMAX
Florida State House Speaker Richard Corcoran and 73 other Republicans on Sunday sent a letter to Gov. Rick Scott calling for the suspension of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel “incompetence and neglect of duty.”
Israel has been under intense criticism since announcing the school resourse officer, who was employed by Israel’s office, took a position outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida during the Feb. 14 mass shooting that killed 17. Israel said the officer should have entered the building and attempted to stop the shooter.
Richard Corcoran✔@richardcorcoran
Today I sent the following letter to @FLGovScott Asking that he suspend Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for incompetence and dereliction of duty. I was honored to be joined by 73 Republican colleagues. You can read the letter attached here.
11:10 AM - Feb 25, 2018
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The letter comes one day after Florida Republican State Rep. Bill Hager sent Scott his own letter alleging “neglect of duty and incompetence.”
Israel on Sunday told CNN’s Jake Tapper his agency was investigating BSO’s response and that an armed sheriff’s deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School waited outside one of the buildings for “upwards of four minutes.” CNN earlier this weekend reported that Coral Springs police officers arrived at the scene to find that three additional BSO deputies had not entered the school.
BSO has been criticized for its response to the shooting, and for missteps with the shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, prior to the incident. BSO reportedly received warnings about Cruz but didn’t flag him as a threat.
“An investigation by Sheriff Israel into the unfathomable inaction of those deputies will do nothing to bring back the 17 victims,” said Hager, the House Justice Appropriations chairman, in a letter to Scott. “The sheriff was fully aware of the threat this individual presented to his community and chose to ignore it.”
“Sadly, he was not the only one that ignore it. DCF, Broward County Schools, the FBI and the BSO all had pivotal information but failed to act appropriately and failed to communicate appropriately.”
Scott on Sunday said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement will “immediately begin their process,” into how police officers responded to the shooting.
“Let me be perfectly clear. Our investigation to this point shows that during this horrific attack, while this killer was inside the school, there was only one law enforcement person, period. And that was former deputy Scot Peterson,” Israel said, referring to a school resource officer. “Coral Springs arrived, a group of Coral Springs officers went in within I think about four minutes, we’re projecting, after the killer left the campus. I understand that they’re going to give statements to us regarding the other three, four, five deputies. At this point, we have no reason to believe anyone acted incorrectly or correctly. That’s what an investigation is.”
A survivor of the school shooting also called on Israel to resign.
“He failed to act on so many different levels and him himself, he is responsible for this massive failure. It could have been easily stopped both by the FBI and the sheriff’s department had they acted,” Kyle Kashuv told “America’s News HQ.”
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https://www.newsmax.com/us/rick-scorr-fdle-police-response-mass-shooting/2018/02/25/id/845357/
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“Lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep.” — Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel -
Just ANOTHER connected & powerful
TYPICAL JEW TRAITOR PSYCHOPATH COMPARING non-Jew people, humans,
TO PREY ANIMALS
- just like in the vile, Hebrew, JEWISH BIBLE!
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| Portrait of a TREASONOUS, PSYCHOPATHIC JEWISH LIAR and CORRUPT, ghoulishly INCOMPETENT "apparatchik" - IF NOT a TREASONOUS MASS-MURDERER! Broward Co. JUDEO SUPREMACIST "goyim are VERMIN TO BE DISPOSED OF" SHERIFF Scott ISRAEL... |
Broward County Sheriff Has History Of
[VILE, CITIZENS-LOATHING] Controversy
Peter Hasson
The Daily Caller
Peter Hasson
The Daily Caller
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel faces criticism for his department’s repeated failures to stop Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz
Israel has been accused of using his department for political purposes
Israel faced criticism after a PAC supporting his campaign accepted donations from a felon with ties to organized crime
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, currently under fire for his department’s repeated failures to stop Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, is no stranger to controversy.
Israel was criticized in 2014 after a political action committee supporting his re-election campaign for sheriff accepted thousands of dollars in donations from a convicted felon.
The donor, Yoram Izhak, was indicted for allegedly being part of an organized crime ring known as the “Cuban Mafia” that “was allegedly involved in cocaine trafficking, arson, gambling and murder,” according to Local10.
The sheriff has also faced corruption accusations: department employees routinely attended campaign events while on the clock for their taxpayer-funded positions, a Local10 investigation found in 2016.
A Sun-Sentinal investigation the same year found that the sheriff had routinelyhanded out taxpayer-funded jobs to political supporters. The sheriff’s response at the time: “lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep.”
Israel is now facing sharp criticism for his department’s repeated failures to stop Stoneman Douglas school shooter Nikolas Cruz. The sheriff’s office was warned repeatedly that Cruz was a school shooter in the making, by both his relatives and those close to him, but failed to act to prevent the shooting.
Cruz’s guardian told police that the Cruz had “bought tons of ammo,” “used a gun against (people) before” and “put the gun to others’ heads in the past.” (RELATED: The Government Repeatedly Failed To Stop The Parkland Shooter)
Then, when Cruz opened fire at Stoneman Douglas high school last week, Israel’s sheriff’s deputies stood by as the shooter mowed down defenseless victims.
One of Israel’s sheriff’s deputies, Scot Peterson, stood outside the building and refused to confront the shooter, Israel admitted on Thursday.
Three other Broward County deputies reportedly waited outside while the shooting was going on, according to a report on Friday. Israel did not disclose that fact to the public.
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/23/broward-county-sheriff-has-history-of-controversy/
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