The Broward County Sheriff missed warning after warning that Nikolas Cruz was a potential school shooter.
Once the shooting started, deputies of the Coward Broward County Sheriffs Department waited outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School on Valentine’s Day and waited while students were being killed.
Video was released of a Broward SRO going on a joy ride on a golf cart once the shooting began. This prompted a judge to order more videos to be released.
Sheriff Isreal defended himself on CNN saying that he gave “amazing leadership” and then dismissing Jake Tapper’s question in an embarrassing and nonsensical way, showing just how little he cared about his actual job.
The situation has gotten so out of hand that deputies of the BSO are holding a no confidence vote against Sheriff Israel.
The whole of the BSO is one giant cluster fuck.
Just a few days ago, MSD student and one of the few people actually doing some good, Kyle Kashuv went to a shooting range with his dad, and under supervision learned to shoot a gun.
It was great learning about our inalienable right of #2A and how to properly use a gun. This was my first time ever touching a gun and it made me appreciate the #Constitution even more. My instructor was very informative; I learnt a lot. #2A is important and we need 2 preserve 2A pic.twitter.com/4rcOZbpl88
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
This is where the Broward County Sheriffs Department decided to step in.
Then a third officer from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office walked in, and began asking me the same questions again. At that point, I asked whether I could record the interview. They said no. I asked if I had done anything wrong. Again, they answered no. I asked why I was there. One said, “Don’t get snappy with me, do you not remember what happened here a few months ago?”
They continued to question me aggressively, though they could cite nothing I had done wrong. They kept calling me “the pro-Second Amendment kid.” I was shocked and honestly, scared. It definitely felt like they were attempting to intimidate me.
I was treated like a criminal for no reason other than having gone to the gun range and posted on social media about it.
Because the one MDS student who didn’t turn into an anti-gun fascist went to a shooting range, he’s now a suspected threat.
No, of course there was nothing political about that. Perish the thought.
It’s clear that Sheriff Isreal is just Captain Peter Wrong Way Peachfuzz with a badge. Not just can’t he do anything to stop an obvious threat, he has to have his deputies intervene against the one kid there who is quite possibly the least threatening one of all.
One mistake there is asking permission to record the conversation. It’s his right to record it; he should have just done so.
Meanwhile, those sheriff types should lose their jobs and go to jail for violating the civil rights of a US citizen.
This is squarely into be careful what you wish for IMO.
Had a similar thing happen to me in highschool, though not at the same level. I had to talk to the school psychologist because I wrote a paper about a gun….That was over 10 years ago now.
“I was treated like a criminal for no reason other than having gone to the gun range and posted on social media about it.”
This IS bullshit. He and his whole family need to take heart of the parts of the Constitution about demanding A lawyer and not Speaking. The law suit should be massive .Naming All 3 deputies and the sheriff.
Tell your kids that if they get a similar note, they should take a minute and contact you immediately. You have a right to be there if your child is a minor.
I hate to say it, but everyone should have a lawyer on speed dial. Hopefully one that is a nasty bulldog when it comes to civil rights.
If FLA is a one party state, tell the kid to start the recording, and not let anyone know it is running. Pull out a pen, and say, “I am going to record some notes.”
If the meeting is innocuous, no harm, no foul.
It’s worse than that. “Greenleaf,” whom Kashuv ID’d as an “armed school resource officer,” may be a civilian, not LE. In which case it appears he’s in violation of Florida on guns in schools. And possibly causing students to reasonably believe he’s a LEO. Then there’s the Miranda issues of questioning a minor.
Broward County grabs shovel, digs deeper
http://zelmanpartisans.com/?p=5137
@pkoning: Florida is an “all parties” state. To record a nonpublic conversation, you must have the permission of all parties involved.
It’s worse than that. “Greenleaf,” whom Kashuv ID’d as an “armed school resource officer,” may be a civilian, not LE. In which case it appears he’s in violation of Florida law on guns in schools. And possibly causing students to reasonably believe he’s a LEO. Then there’s the Miranda issues of questioning a minor.
Broward County grabs shovel, digs deeper
http://zelmanpartisans.com/?p=5137
@pkoning: Florida is an “all parties” state. To record a nonpublic conversation, you must have the permission of all parties involved.