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• Diver43 Senior Member Posts: 12,185 Senior Member

  September 2018 #2

  This was on the local news yesterday.  They actually had security cam footage and went through second by second of what Deputy Peterson did while Cruz was in the building.  While Cruz was on the first floor, Peterson was right outside the door and did nothing. As Cruz went up the stairs to the 2nd floor, Peterson did nothing.  Then after shooting people on the 2nd floor Cruz went to the 3rd floor and shot more people as Peterson moved away from the building and took cover.Watching the video, Peterson could have opened the door and shot Cruz as he entered the area to go up to the 2nd floor.
  Watching it with the timer going in the corner, i stood up and was yelling at the TV.  I know it is easy to sit at home now and say what should have been done.  But Deputy Peterson was close enough to know exactly where the shooter was and could have easily taken action against him. He was close enough that his sidearm would have been plenty to take out the shooter before he even knew the Deputy was there.  No wonder the parents and people that have seen the entire video footage are so angry.
  

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• Big Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member

  September 2018 #3

  Sounds like the whole thing was a 'Comedy of errors' starting with the over 30 times the SD was called about and/or visited his residence, the FBI not pursuing tips about him, the school board and SD having an agreement not to arrest students to make their stats look better and culminating with this deputy not doing his job.

  
  

  If there were ever 'Warning signs/indicators' screaming to be acted on, that shooter was the mother lode.
  

  
  

  The easy thing is to blame the gun, not the individual who committed that heinous act.

  
  

  Even after all of the above warnings were pretty much ignored, to top it off that deputy's decision to not engage the shooter and do the very job he was being paid to do and sworn to do is despicable to say the least.
  

  
  

   
  

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