Disgraced Broward Co. Sheriff Scott Israel Campaigns For His Old Job

By Tom Knighton

Michael Laughlin/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP

If we were to place the blame for the Parkland massacre on a single name, it wouldn’t be Wayne LaPierre, despite what some people might try to do. No, that “honor” belongs to Scott Israel.

The disgraced former sheriff of Broward County is the man whose department failed to act on the dozens of calls regarding the eventual gunman, including calls over domestic violence. That alone would have prohibited the killer from getting a firearm. Yet, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office did nothing.

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Israel began spinning a narrative that blamed the NRA for the attack in an apparent effort to deflect the blame from his department.

Earlier this year, he was fired.

Now, the man seeks to regain his old job by taking to the campaign trail.

ormer Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is campaigning for his old job after being removed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for his officers’ failure to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 students died in a mass shooting last year. DeSantis quickly suspended Israel after assuming the governorship this year and appointed former Coral Springs police Sgt. Gregory …Read the Rest

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