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Title: Stand down? Broward captain ordered deputies to wait during Parkland massacre
Source:
HotAir
URL Source: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03 ... puties-wait-parkland-massacre/
Published: Mar 2, 2018
Author: Ed Morrissey
Post Date: 2018-03-02 15:04:53 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 1801
Comments: 13
In other words, it became effectively a stand-down order while shots rang out: Capt. Jan Jordan, commander of BSO’s Parkland district, gave the order, the log shows, identifying her by her police call sign. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has said BSO training and nationwide active-shooter procedure call for armed law enforcement officers to confront shooters immediately rather than secure a scene. The document raises fresh questions about the department’s handling of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14. It certainly does, although those aren’t the only pressing issues about the BSO and Nikolas Cruz. It raises fresh questions about Sheriff Scott Israel’s rush to focus public attention on Peterson, too, who may or may not have been responding to Jordan’s order when deciding to hold his position rather than enter the school. Oddly, the statement from Peterson’s attorney never mentions this order from Jordan, although it certainly would help mitigate the perception of his client. Perhaps neither Peterson nor his attorney were aware of it at the time, which would tend not to mitigate Peterson’s actions. However, it again raises serious questions about Scott Israel. The sheriff went on a media blitz after the shooting to demand gun-control legislation and point the finger everywhere else but at himself and his own department. Israel went far out of his way to hang Peterson out to dry without revealing this order from one of his department’s senior leadership. At the very least, Sheriff Israel seems to have no idea what his department was or is doing, and at the worst, he’s been deliberately distracting from its failures and their consequences. The stand-down order at the moment of the massacre is bad enough, but that’s not the only one for which Israel’s department is responsible. Their pursuit of the Obama-era Promise program was a broad stand-down in the face of dozens of opportunities to intervene effectively with Cruz. The BSO had made forty-five calls to Cruz’ house over a few years, and the school had twenty-five separate disciplinary actions against him, including carrying bullets into the school. Other students had repeatedly warned of Cruz’ potential for violence at the school, but rather than enforce the law, Israel and BSO colluded with school superintendent Robert Runcie to ignore juvenile crime — repeatedly so in Cruz’ case — in order to make juvenile crime statistics look prettier for the Department of Education. So yes, let’s probe the stand-down order from Captain Jordan and hold deputies responsible for their failures on February 14th. But let’s focus much more attention on the stand-down orders that had been in place for years and allowed Cruz to escape responsibility for earlier crimes, which would have prevented him from purchasing his weapons at all. And let’s make sure that Scott Israel gets removed from this equation and identified as a particularly discreditable source from this point forward, too. Poster Comment: Just how long does it take to get to the basic facts of the police conduct while the corrupt sheriff runs around on libmedia, trying to demonize gunowners and the NRA. Perhaps Scot Peterson’s off the hook after all, at least legally and formally. The Broward County Sheriff’s deputy wasn’t the only law enforcement officer taking a wait-and-see approach to the massacre taking place inside Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. According to records obtained by the Miami Herald, a captain ordered BSO deputies to set up a perimeter around the school rather than enter immediately to confront the shooter, as is required by department procedures and standard practice. The Broward Sheriff’s Office captain who initially took charge of the chaotic scene at a Parkland high school where 17 people were killed told deputies to form a perimeter around the deadly scene — which they did instead of going in to confront the shooter, according to a partial BSO dispatch log obtained by the Miami Herald.
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#6. To: Tooconservative (#0)
I still don’t know if he is a coward or not. But I damned well know that he shouldn’t have been called a coward ONLY on the basis of what was being reported.
Peterson also said that when the shooting started, he had an immediate report that a student was shot at the football field and it did sound to him like the shots were coming from outside. That is probably why he established the perimeter, which he said the right action. I suspect he of course called that information in and that may have been when the Captain arriving at the scene also called for a perimeter to be set up. No one will know anything for sure until after the investigation is completed. Even then, all the facts and reasons for various actions may never be known. Some on LF post shit like they had a PhD in criminology and were observing multiple screens with cameras all showing live action. They knew exactly what wa going on all the time and exactly what should have been done. If one can’t be something, then they can always be a LF resident expert on everything. Are you reading this, Deckard?
Well, I'm no expert but the more we learn about the deliberate inaction by the cops in this situation, the more it is obvious that the "stand down" was a deliberate tactic which allowed the maximum body count. It appears to me that the stench goes all the way to the top of the department. The Broward Sheriff’s Office captain who initially took charge of the chaotic scene at a Parkland high school where 17 people were killed told deputies to form a perimeter around the deadly scene — which they did instead of going in to confront the shooter, according to a partial BSO dispatch log obtained by the Miami Herald. Capt. Jan Jordan, commander of BSO’s Parkland district, gave the order, the log shows, identifying her by her police call sign. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has said BSO training and nationwide active-shooter procedure call for armed law enforcement officers to confront shooters immediately rather than secure a scene. This was definitely a time when cops should have defied the order given by the Commander (a woman no less - are you fricking kidding me) and rushed in to save as many souls as possible. Then again, they were obeying the prime directive of police work - to make it home safely at the end of the day. Peterson also said that when the shooting started, he had an immediate report that a student was shot at the football field and it did sound to him like the shots were coming from outside. That is probably why he established the perimeter, which he said the right action. I'm sure that will be the excuse he gives at his trial.
What do they know about fighting? Wait….let’s check that out:
#13. To: Gatlin (#12)
Women in Combat Lindsey Graham with the Taliban, Afghanistan.
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I have read a couple variations of the information presented in this article and they all say the same. I figured all along that while everyone was calling Peterson a coward, there may be more to the story since it was reported that Peterson said, “I was doing the right thing.” I read more, but to post it would only reinforce my original thoughts. I knew that as always with these reports, and especially the ones Deckard posts, there could be more to the Peterson story than what was coming out.
#8. To: Tooconservative (#6)
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#10. To: Gatlin, Liberator, TooConservative (#8)
they can always be a LF resident expert on everything...
#12. To: Deckard (#10)
... the order given by the Commander (a woman no less - are you fricking kidding me) ...
Yea, those damn women.
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