{"id":189400,"date":"2019-06-05T07:14:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T07:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189400"},"modified":"2019-06-07T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:10:28","slug":"parkland-police-officer-charged-with-neglecting-children-after-staying-outside-during-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189400","title":{"rendered":"Parkland police officer charged with neglecting children after staying outside during school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Allen \u2013 Telegraph.co.uk June 4, 2019<\/h1>\n

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A Florida police officer who did not go into the building as children were massacred in last year’s Parkland school shooting<\/strong><\/span><\/a> has been arrested and faces 11 criminal charges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scot Peterson, 56, was charged with seven counts of neglect of a child, three counts of culpable negligence, and one count of perjury.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sheriff’s deputy was on duty during the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.<\/span><\/p>\n

State Attorney Mike Satz said the charges carry a combined prison sentence of up to 100 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The officer’s bail was set at $102,000. His lawyer didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nikolas Cruz<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a former pupil at the school, could face the death penalty if convicted of killing 17 people, and injuring 17 others, in the attack,.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has offered to plead not guilty in return for a life sentence, but prosecutors have refused that offer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pupils at the school in Parkland, 30 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, hid under desks and in cupboards as the gunfire rang out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Surveillance video was later released showing Mr Peterson, the police officer assigned to the school, taking cover next to a wall outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time Sheriff Scott Israel said: “The video speaks for itself.”<\/span><\/p>\n

A police investigation found the officer hid for nearly 50 minutes after the shooting began, and continued doing so when other officers arrived and went inside. He was later fired.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said: “Our investigation shows former Deputy Peterson did absolutely nothing to mitigate the shooting that killed 17 children, teachers and staff and injured 17 others.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There can be no excuse for his complete inaction and no question that his inaction cost lives.”<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time Donald Trump said: “He didn’t have the courage. He certainly did a poor job.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The officer has publicly stated that he did not know the shots were coming from inside the building, and was following his training by taking cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I never would have sat there and let my kids get slaughtered. Never,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Scot Peterson could face up to 100 years in jail if convicted. As others have noted, he probably knows that Nikolas Cruz was not the gunman. This ensures his silence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shooting-at-the-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-in-parkland-florida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189400"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189441,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189400\/revisions\/189441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}