Sun-Sentinel Finally Agrees That Broward County Sheriff Israel Needs To Go

By Tom Knighton

It didn’t take long after Parkland for people to figure out that something was up. Almost immediately, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel was ready to blame guns for the mass killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He was ready to blame anything and everything outside of the control of him and his buddies in local government.

But as time went on, we found a very different picture. We found one of Sheriff Israel’s deputies hiding outside the high school rather than trying to engage the gunman. We discovered numerous times when his officers failed to arrest the future killer for crimes that would have prohibited him from buying a firearm. Frankly, we found that Scott Israel sucked at his job.

Unfortunately, the local paper didn’t see it that way…until now.

After defending Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for months against Republican criticism over his office’s failed handling of the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the left-leaning Sun Sentinel editorial board published a lengthy editorial Wednesday on “the failed leadership of Broward Sheriff Scott Israel” that explains why they now agree with Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis that Israel must go.

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