Parkland school resource officer who stayed outside during mass shooting found not guilty
BY Herschel Smith
10 months, 1 week ago
A jury has acquitted on all counts the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – absolving him of wrongdoing in the rare trial of a law enforcement officer for his response to a mass shooting.
Scot Peterson, 60, took off his glasses and wept in court as the judge read off the verdict, finding him not guilty of seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury.
“I’ve got my life back,” Peterson, a former deputy for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, told reporters outside court, describing the years since the shooting as “an emotional roller coaster.”
I couldn’t care less what sort of emotional roller coaster he’s been on nor how he feels about any of this. He’s a coward. Regardless of what the law requires, he should have been a righteous man and, if necessary, given his life for the children.
Having said that, this is the right legal decision. Holding police responsible for the protection of life runs afoul of court decisions in the following cases.
Warren v. District of Columbia
Progressives hate the police except for when they enforce laws they want (that means against everybody but them as was the case with Antifa), and the traditional conservatives are the only ones left who believe the myth that the police are there to serve and protect. They are not, nor have they ever been. They are agents of the state and will behave that way at every opportunity. No court ruling has ever said police are there to protect citizens.
It is the responsibility of every good man to defend his family, and thus should men be armed and capable of doing so. As for schools, if you want them to be safe, hire people who are under contract to do that, harden the entrances, and give teachers weapons. Better yet, get your children out of public schools and home school them to learn math, physics, chemistry, rhetoric and logic, and theology.
Don’t conflate the fact that this man was a coward with the notion that the police are there to protect you or your children. That’s what you and your weapons are for.
On June 30, 2023 at 9:40 am, Matt said:
In Texas, under certain parameters, teachers can carry in school under the school marshal law. I know of several teachers who are. Damn glad too.
On June 30, 2023 at 2:28 pm, mr miller said:
Disgusting, in the military its called cowardness which this tub of excrement has shown. In 2007 247 Marines were KIA in 2 week during the retaking of a city the Iraq Army abandoned…like this tub.
On July 4, 2023 at 9:42 am, Dirk said:
This looser has to live with his inaction, the death of innocent children. No court in the world was going to convict him. End of the day Petersons cowardice isn’t a law to be broke, it’s a moral ethical unwritten code he failed.
Dirk