LF: Stoneman Douglas report calls on the sheriff's office to investigate SEVEN deputies who 'failed to confront Nikolas Cruz during the horrific mass school shooting'

Title: Stoneman Douglas report calls on the sheriff's office to investigate SEVEN deputies who 'failed to confront Nikolas Cruz during the horrific mass school shooting'
Source: DailyMail
URL Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar ... nvestigate-seven-deputies.html
Published: Dec 12, 2018
Author: Dailymail.com Reporter and Associated Pr
Post Date: 2018-12-12 18:23:38 by Hondo68
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A new report on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre has called on police to investigate seven deputies it claimed did not respond fast enough.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission found that the Broward Sheriff's Office displayed deficiencies in everything from training and command to individual performance in its response to the Parkland shooting.

It has recommended that the sheriff's office investigate the performance of seven deputies who failed to engage the gunman despite hearing gunshots at the school.

'Several uniformed BSO deputies were either seen on camera or described taking the time to retrieve and put on their ballistic vests, sometimes in excess of one minute and in response to hearing gunshots,' reads the report, which was obtained by the Sun-Sentinel.

'Deputy sheriffs who took the time to retrieve vests from containers in their cruisers, removed certain equipment they were wearing so that they could put on their vests, and then replaced the equipment they had removed all while shots were being fired, or had been recently fired is unacceptable and contrary to accepted protocol.'

'Deputies should have immediately moved towards the gunshots to confront the shooter.'

The draft report, which was released Wednesday, noted that there was also 'abundant confusion' over the location of the sheriff's command post.

'This stemmed from an absence of command and control and an ineffective radio system,' the report reads.
The report comes a week after BSO Capt Jan Jordan resigned following criticism regarding her response to the shooting

'A unified command consisting of command staff from BSO, CSPD, and CSFD took an excessive amount of time to establish.'

The report comes a week after BSO Capt Jan Jordan resigned and Sgt Brian Miller was placed on paid suspension following their response to the shooting.

Jordan oversaw the city of Parkland on February 14 and Miller was the first sergeant to arrive at the scene.

Law enforcement officers told investigators Jordan appeared to be in a trancelike state and overwhelmed as she tried to direct the initial response to the attack.

Miller arrived at the school during the shooting but video shows he stayed outside the parking lot until long after the massacre ended, even as other law enforcement officers entered the building.

An investigation found that Jordan never ordered deputies into the high school and her radio failed frequently because the system was overloaded.

Meanwhile, Miller took a position behind his patrol cal and never made a radio call as shots continued to ring out in the school when he arrived on the scene.

He stood by as officers from neighboring Coral Springs and additional BSO deputies ran past him into the building.

These deputies, who ran to the scene, sought out the shooter, and helped treat and evacuate victims, were praised in the report.

The Sheriff's office will investigate themselves and determine that they're all heroes, end of story. (2 images)

Your analysis is correct. Self-investigation never results in anything other than self- exoneration. We all know this.