Posted June 6, 2018 7:30 am by Comments

By Christen Smith


The disgraced cop who stood with his back against a wall as a gunman slaughtered students and staff inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School broke his silence this week in an interview with the Washington Post.
Former Broward County Sheriffs Deputy Scot Peterson said his inaction during the Valentine’s Day shooting in Parkland, Florida “haunts” him daily, even though he rejects the labels of “coward” and “failure.”
“How can they keep saying I did nothing?” he said. “I’m getting on the radio to call in the shooting. I’m locking down the school. I’m clearing kids out of the courtyard. They have the video and the call logs. The evidence is sitting right there.”
Peterson said the timeline unfolded on that fateful afternoon with a call for possible fireworks in the 1200 Building. When he arrived on the scene a minute later, Peterson said he heard a few gunshots and took cover, ordering the school into lock down mode and calling for back-up. He said radio malfunctions meant no one knew exactly what awaited inside.
“I was trying to figure it out,” Peterson said. “I was scanning for the shooter, looking over the windows, the sidewalk, the rooftop. I thought maybe it was a sniper like

Source: Guns.com

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