The coward of Broward, Scot Peterson was allowed to retire with his pension intact, even though he hid during the Parkland School Massacre, even though as the School’s Resource Officer, it was his job to protect the school’s students. The parents of the victims sued, and his lawyer just said–
under the law, his client cannot be sued for anything he did or didn’t do during the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre. He cited appellate court cases that say police officers don’t have a legal obligation to protect others from third-party harm and cannot be sued for decisions they make during a crisis. There is a difference between legal duty and what I guess I’ll call societal expectations,” the attorney for the sheriff’s deputy argued. All the public will hear is that Peterson was in uniform and had a gun, he said, yet “When faced with this murderous rampage going on in this three-story building, he doesn’t have a duty to stop it?”
So if police don’t have a duty to do anything, then why do we even have SROs in school in the first place? Just like Uvalde, we know that the police are cowardly pussies. That’s how we know that they aren’t about to go door to door to take shit.
