Scott Peterson Had No Duty to Protect Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Shooting Victims

By Dan Roberts

Opinion

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- A few days ago, cowardly Broward Co Sheriffs Deputy Scott Peterson, thru his attorney, filed a motion to have the wrongful death suit against him filed by Andrew Pollack ( father of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High Mass Shooting Victim Meadow Pollack) dismissed. Peterson’s attorney argued he had no specific legal obligation to provide protection and therefore the suit must be rejected.

The judge hearing the motion denied it, and Pollack and his attorney had very strong ( and well deserved in my opinion) criticisms of Peterson’s willful refusal to act, openly calling him a coward, and rightly so.

Unfortunately, the Judge is wrong, and Peterson’s attorney is correct from a legal standpoint.

There is long-standing and well established legal precedent from both the Fed Courts as well as the Supreme Court that makes it crystal clear that the Police/Govt has NO specific duty to protect individual citizens or groups of Citizens and CANNOT be sued or held liable for failing to have done so.

See Supreme Court decisions in Castle Rock v Gonzales as well as DeShaney v Winnebago County and DC Court of Appeals in Warren v …Read the Rest

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