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Ex-Fla. SRO charged for inaction during Parkland shooting

06/04/2019 Law Enforcement News

By: Curt Anderson & Terry Spencer, The Associated Press

MIAMI — The former Florida deputy who failed to confront a gunman during last year’s Parkland school massacre was arrested Tuesday on 11 criminal charges related to his actions, prosecutors announced.

Broward State Attorney Mike Satz said in a statement that 56-year-old Scot Peterson faces child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury charges that carry a combined potential prison sentence of nearly 100 years.

In this Feb. 18, 2015, file frame from video from Broward County Public Schools, school resource officer Scot Peterson talks during a school board meeting of Broward County, Fla. (Broward County Public Schools via AP, File)
Peterson, then a Broward deputy, was on duty as the school resource officer during the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School but never went inside while bullets were flying. Seventeen people died and 17 others were wounded in the attack.

 

Full story: https://www.policeone.com/school-violence/articles/484031006-Ex-Fla-SRO-charged-for-inaction-during-Parkland-shooting/

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