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Ex-Fla. deputy says he acted properly during Parkland massacre

05/02/2019 Law Enforcement News

By: The Associated Press, policeone.com

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The then-Florida sheriff’s deputy assigned to protect the high school where 17 died in last year’s massacre has filed a rebuttal to a commission’s conclusion that he was “derelict in his duty,” saying the findings were “biased” and not supported by evidence.

Former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson said in a 14-page rebuttal to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission dated April 26 that he secured the three-story freshman building where the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting happened as he was trained, repeating several times his actions were based on “real time intelligence.”

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)
“The findings contained in the MSD Commission Report regarding my response to the shooting … are blatantly false,” Peterson wrote. A 30-year deputy who had been assigned to Stoneman Douglas for nine years, Peterson, 56, wrote the report “does not contain evidence to substantiate the findings regarding my law enforcement actions.”

 

Full story: https://www.policeone.com/school-violence/articles/483743006-Ex-Fla-deputy-says-he-acted-properly-during-Parkland-massacre/

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