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Parkland Father Exposes How Killer Was Enabled by Obama’s School-Leniency Policies

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Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, was a victim of the Parkland massacre that left 17 dead, is on a mission to make sure other parents are aware of what failed in Broward County so that future school tragedies might be prevented.

The mourning father has written a book spelling out the countless red flags school officials and law enforcement were handed regarding the deranged murderer who took the lives of so many innocent victims, including Meadow — and says policies implemented by President Barack Obama prevented the reporting of an abundance of evidence that could have been used to stop his daughter’s killer. . .

The piece goes through a litany of events which — although apparently disturbing enough for Cruz’s teachers to report in their notes — were either never reported to or dismissed by proper authorities. One noteworthy example was that Cruz’s psychiatrist insisted her patient should not be admitted in to JROTC citing “the safety of others/himself,” but he was nonetheless enrolled in the program and “literally” given “an air gun, shaped like an AR-15, and [allowed to] practice shooting.”

On Wednesday, Pollack explained to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, a specific example of how policies implemented by the Obama administration contributed to Cruz slipping through the cracks.

“Students were allowed four misdemeanors per school year without being introduced to the judicial system,” Pollack said. “And then, at the end of the year — if you can believe this, Tucker — so that was in the ninth grade, you had a kid next to your kid in the classroom, commits four misdemeanors, and then the next year in tenth grade, he resets at zero, again, and is allowed another four misdemeanors per school year.” (Read more from “Parkland Father Exposes How Killer Was Enabled by Obama’s School-Leniency Policies” HERE)

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Parkland Students’ Gun Control Proposal Is Beyond Radical

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March for Our Lives, the gun control group started by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students following the tragic shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday released their comprehensive gun control plan, know as the “Peace Plan.” . . .

Specifically the group wants:

• a national licensing and registry system. Specifically, gun owners would have to go through in-person interviews with law enforcement, provide personal references, obtain firearm safety training and wait 10 days for each firearm purchase. Licenses would expire every year and requirements would have to be fulfilled again. . .

• to expand the list of reasons to prohibit someone to own a firearm. Prohibited possessors would include: individuals with felony convictions, any level of domestic violence offenders (protective orders and misdemeanors), individuals with a documented history of violence, individuals convicted of hate crimes, individuals convicted of stalking, and individuals that make a credible and public threat against a specific person or institutions such as schools, churches, or workplaces. . .

• to declare a national emergency around gun violence and create a goal to reduce gun injuries and deaths by 50 percent in 10 years.

[And more…]

(Read more from “Parkland Students’ Gun Control Proposal Is Beyond Radical” HERE)

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Sheriff Who Didn’t Confront Parkland Shooter Arrested

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Former Broward County Sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson, who was widely criticized for not entering Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the Parkland shooting last year, has been arrested on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.

After disgraced Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel was removed from his command, new Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony turned his focus to the internal investigation of how seven deputies responded to the tragedy. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office released the following statement:

Today, as a result of the continuing internal investigation and disciplinary process, Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony officially announced the termination of two deputies who were found to have neglected their duties. The two are former Deputy Scot Peterson and Sergeant Brian Miller. The deputy and sergeant were found to have neglected their duties at MSD High School. They have been terminated and will no longer be privileged to serve as law enforcement deputies for the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Subsequent to an administrative discipline hearing at BSO headquarters this afternoon, former Deputy Peterson was taken into custody on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges and booked into the BSO Main Jail.

Peterson, who was branded “a coward” by President Donald Trump, was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on “seven counts of neglect of a child and three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury,” the FDLE said in a statement.

(Read more from “Sheriff Who Didn’t Confront Parkland Shooter Arrested” HERE)

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Parkland Victim’s Father Unloads on Sheriff’s Office After Exhaustive Report

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Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland victim Meadow Pollack, did not mince words when responding to the Sun Sentinel’s recent minute-by-minute rundown of the Parkland, Florida, shooting, titled, “Unprepared and Overwhelmed.”

“It’s pretty disgraceful when you look at it. It’s hard to even watch it, how bad the response was that happened that day,” said Pollack.

(Read more from “Parkland Victim’s Father Unloads on Sheriff’s Office After Exhaustive Report” HERE)

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Whoa: Students Asked If Parkland Shooter ‘Deserves to Die’ in School Assignment

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By Townhall. Students at Coral Glades High School in Coral Springs, Florida, were given a rather shocking assignment: to take a quiz about whether or not Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz “deserves to die.” To make matters even worse? Coral Glades is only a 10 minute drive from Stoneman Douglas so this should hit close to home.

Images of the quiz made its way around social media. Parkland survivor Cameron Kasky said the school board should be ashamed:

(Read more from “Whoa: Students Asked If Parkland Shooter ‘Deserves to Die’ in School Assignment” HERE)

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School Assignment on Parkland Shooter Sparks Major Controversy

By ABC 7. Some parents and students at a Florida high school are outraged over an assignment that asked if the Parkland School Shooter should get the death penalty.

The assignment was titled “Does Nikolas Cruz Deserve to Die?” It was given to students at a school in Coral Glades – just miles away from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, where Cruz killed 17 students and staff earlier this year.

Stoneman Douglas parents like Cindy Levine are furious.

“These people lost their children for crying out loud, and my son could’ve been one of them, and a lot of our friends were killed, it’s like sticking a knife in their stomach and turning it over and over,” Levine says. . .

Teachers say the assignment came from an outside publisher. That publisher says it was meant to spark conversations about the history and social impact of the death penalty. (Read more from “School Assignment on Parkland Shooter Sparks Major Controversy” HERE)

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New Video of Police Officer Who Failed to Act During Parkland Shooting Baffles Detective

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On Wednesday, the state commission investigating February’s shooting at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was shown a surveillance video revealing more of former deputy Scot Peterson’s movements during the rampage. Peterson has been condemned by parents, and even President Trump, who called him a “coward,” because he failed to intervene during the shooting. Now, critics have more opportunity to lash out at the disgraced officer.

In the new video, Peterson is shown making all the wrong moves. For instance, once the shooting began, he failed to provide the important radio report, wasting precious minutes, and told officers to keep away from the school building. He should’ve known better, according to detective Zack Scott.

During the ordeal inside the freshman building, which left 17 dead, Peterson called over the radio for intersections to be blocked, which members of the commission said was precisely the wrong tactic when an active shooter is busy killing people. He failed to provide an initial radio report about the shootings to the Sheriff’s Office, letting minutes pass in silence. Peterson told officers to stay at least 500 feet from the building.

The correct call during an active shooter situation is for law enforcement officers to charge in after the shooter, said Zack Scott, the Sheriff’s Office detective who showed the video to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, meeting at the BB&T Center in Sunrise.

Peterson is also seen hiding from the gun shots. Although he was only 69 feet from the door to the freshman building, where the gunman was on his rampage, the officer retreated.

(Read more from “New Video of Police Officer Who Failed to Act During Parkland Shooting Baffles Detective” HERE)

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Cruz’s Mother to Be Determining Factor on Death Penalty for School Shooter

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The extensive criminal and drug abuse history of Parkland school suspect Nikolas Cruz’s biological mother could be a key factor in whether he is sentenced to die for the massacre that killed 17 people, legal experts and officials say.

The mother, 62-year-old Brenda Woodard, played no role in Cruz’s upbringing after giving him up for adoption after he was born. But her past, which included a crack cocaine purchase arrest while she was pregnant with Cruz, will almost certainly be brought up for a jury considering whether he should live or die.

“It is not necessarily her past, but how her past contributed to his genetic makeup,” said David S. Weinstein, a former state and federal prosecutor now in private practice. “Her use of drugs and alcohol while she was pregnant with him, and how her genetic makeup was passed on to him.” (Read more from “Cruz’s Mother to Be Determining Factor on Death Penalty for School Shooter” HERE)

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State Requests Funds for AR-15s to Arm Schools

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Police in Bismarck, North Dakota, requested funding in the city’s 2019 budget for equipment that includes AR-15 rifles for school resource officers.

Bismarck Public Schools and the Bismarck Police Department plan to share the cost of purchasing nearly $26,000 worth of AR-15s, gun safes, additional bulletproof vests and medical kits, the Bismarck Tribune reported .

The district won’t fund the acquisition of firearms and the rifles will be locked up in the schools, according to district officials.

Police and school officials began considering rifles for school resource officers after a gunman in February killed 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, said Lt. Jason Stugelmeyer, who oversees the department’s Police Youth Bureau. The bureau includes six school resource officers. . .

“I think we have to take any kind of threat to our kids seriously,” said district Interim Supt. Jim Haussler. “I don’t think (the police department’s) request would’ve been made without them believing that (the rifles) will provide them with the tools necessary.” (Read more from “State Requests Funds for AR-15s to Arm Schools” HERE)

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Kyle Kashuv Reveals What Has Changed After Tragedy Struck His School 6 Months Ago

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My school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is about to start classes on Wednesday, along with the rest of Broward County. But the schools are in chaos and still not secured.

For months after the February 14 attack that left 17 people dead at my school, the Broward County School Board promised that Stoneman Douglas would be the site of a pilot program for metal detectors. Donations and offers of metal detectors and other school security measures came flooding in.

Twelve days before school starts, the school board announced that it hadn’t properly anticipated a long list of considerations. Those considerations ranged from privacy concerns to how metal detectors would impact school start times by creating bottlenecks at the entrance. It requires only a little common sense to realize that it takes some time to get 3,300 students through one school entrance with metal detectors.

Instead of the promised armed guards, we have received unarmed security staffers with little to no ability to protect. They are utterly incapable of stopping an active shooter. . .

Superintendent Robert Runcie first tried to dismiss this as “fake news,” but the numbers showed that he simply hadn’t been honest. Given the disaster that had just befallen the community, it is understandable that he would want to hide his and the school board’s culpability. (Read more from “Kyle Kashuv Reveals What Has Changed After Tragedy Struck His School 6 Months Ago” HERE)

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Big Mistake Led to Leak of Damning Info About Broward County Schools’ Handling of Nikolas Cruz

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Broward County school officials made a huge mistake that resulted in the publication of private information about the student charged with murdering 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — and now they’re going after the reporters who published the info, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

The school district has asked that the Sun Sentinel and two of its reporters who published the private information be held in contempt of court for taking advantage of the school system’s mistake.

“They opted to report, publicly, information that this court had ordered to be redacted despite agreeing, on the record, that this information was protected by both Florida and federal law,” the district claims, according to court records.

Reporters and editors at the paper stand by the decision to release the information, and media lawyer Tom Julin doesn’t believe the paper did anything wrong.

“The problem is the School Board’s problem and not the Sun Sentinel’s,” Julin said. “The Sun Sentinel is entitled to publish the information that it lawfully obtained even if that information should have been redacted from the document that was released.” (Read more from “Big Mistake Led to Leak of Damning Info About Broward County Schools’ Handling of Nikolas Cruz” HERE)

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