From the Miami Herald.
Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying. BSO said no.
During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.
Michael McNally, deputy chief for Coral Springs fire-rescue, asked six times for permission to send in specialized teams of police officers and paramedics, according to an incident report he filed after the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 people dead.
But every time McNally asked to deploy the two Rescue Task Force teams — each made up of three paramedics and three to four law enforcement officers — the Broward Sheriff’s Office captain in charge of the scene, Jan Jordan, said no.
Coral Springs asked to go into MDS six times. SIX FUCKING TIMES!!!
How many kids were killed between the time when Coral Springs FD/PD first got there and the shooting ended?
We know it was at least the entire third floor of the school.
The fact is that 15 of the 17 victims died at the school.
Instead of having extra paramedics in the building, law enforcement officers brought injured victims — sometimes on golf carts — to a medical staging area hastily assembled nearby. Then they were sent to hospitals. Fifteen of the 17 mortally wounded victims died at the school. Another 17 people survived their injuries.
How many of those deaths were kids bleeding out in hallways that could have been saved if paramedics had gotten to them sooner?
It wasn’t just the scene captain that is responsible for this. Keeping the Coral Springs FD/PD from responding was Sheriff Israel’s call.
“The [BSO] incident commander advised me, ‘She would have to check,’ ” McNally wrote in the report released Thursday by Coral Springs. “After several minutes, I requested once again the need to deploy RTF elements into the scene to … initiate treatment as soon as possible. Once again, the incident commander expressed that she ‘would have to check before approving this request.’ “
This was not the first time shit like this happened.
In his report, McNally, who had been ordered to act as a liaison between Coral Springs fire command and BSO, also claimed BSO’s command post was severely dysfunctional. Communication was difficult, McNally said, because he often could not locate Jordan, BSO’s district commander for Parkland.
“The command post was inundated with too many people and made it impossible to establish and function,” McNally wrote, echoing criticisms of the disorganization and lack of a unified command structure that plagued BSO’s response to a deadly shooting at the Fort-Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last year.
At least three additional fire-rescue incident reports released Thursday by Coral Springs confirmed that BSO had denied requests to send in the rescue teams. Coral Springs provides fire service in the city of Parkland. BSO provides law enforcement.
So why was the Coral Spirngs FD/PF not allowed in?
Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for BSO, said in an email Thursday evening that medics are only sent in “after it has been confirmed the threat is mitigated.”
That’s a pretty fucking awful idea, especially since the BSO didn’t go in. But the actions of the BSO directly contradict the whole fucking purpose of the RFT.
Thirty-four people had been shot inside the school’s freshman building. Gunshot wound victims can bleed out quickly, meaning fast action is necessary. The special RTF teams allow paramedics to treat victims under the protection of police officers in situations where a shooter has been pinned down or fled but has not necessarily been captured.
They have a team equipped and trained for exactly this type of scenario and the Sheriff an his hand picked Captain kept them out.
BSO Sheriff Scott Israel has faced criticism for his leadership since the shooting. He handpicked Jordan, a former colleague from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, to head the relatively trouble-free Parkland district.
Failure occurred at so many levels it is unbelievable.
When Jordan arrived on scene, her only recorded command was for deputies to form a perimeter around the school, although BSO says that’s because her radio failed as the county’s communications system overloaded.
The excuse for not going in is that her radio failed? So BSO policy is “when in doubt, stand around with your thumbs up your asses.”
Because the BSO was busy trying to fit both thumbs into their assholes instead of confronting the shooter, this happened.
Medical air rescue was also denied because Cruz, who would be arrested off campus more than an hour after the shooting began, had not yet been captured.
The only way this could get any worse is if we found that the BSO sent in deputies to shoot the wounded to put them out of their misery.
No wonder Sheriff Israel was so happy to show up on CNN and blame guns and the NRA.
In his own words, he has shown “amazing leadership.”
His “amazing leadership” caused four deputies to form a perimeter around MSD high school rather than go in and confront the shooter, in violation of everything we know about active shooters and police policy.
He and his hand picked captain kept police and paramedics trained to respond to an active shooter out of the school.
He prevented the wounded from being air lifted to the hospital.
Of course, he can’t say he fucked up, he showed “amazing leadership.” So someone had to be blamed for this, and that someone is Marco Rubio, Dana Loesch, and the law abiding members of the NRA.
What we should see, instead of petulant children having a “die in” at Publix, parents and concerned citizens having a die in at the BSO office. But that will never happen. Why?
This is fucking why:
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Here is my recommendation. Florida needs to get rid of qualified immunity.
Anybody who is angry about this and lives in Florida should run for state office on ending qualified immunity. The gubernatorial candidates should be asked to end qualified immunity. The legislation should be petitioned to end qualified immunity.
When a fuck up of this magnitude and enormity occurs, those in charge of it should be held personally liable.
For ever death that happened after the first BSO deputy failed to respond, Sheriff Israel, Captain Jan Jordan, and Deputy Scot Peterson should be charged with negligent homicide.
The FL legislature already collectively punished millions of law abiding citizens. It’s time that the people who allowed this to happen get punished too.
If guvnor Voldemort had any testicular fortitude, he would have suspended Sheriff Broward Coward by now (at minimum).
But nah… he’s too busy kissing ass in the progtard enclaves around Florida, hoping they’ll get him elected to senate-critter after he stomped on the rights of law-abiding Floridians with his kowtowing to the anti-2a crowd.
Parents who obey government employees who tell them they can’t go rescue their own children deserve to fail to pass on their genes. Government employees will continue to do whatever they want until citizens stop obeying them. Are you and 22 other like-minded persons going to form a grand jury today and prosecute these government employees, and every other government employee who interferes with your prosecution?
The Idiot Sheriff”s leadership was not “amazing”, it was stupifyingly asinine; the very epitome of the “because I said so ” approach . When your man on the scene fupps-up, it’s time to double and maybe even triple down in the effort to make him seem brilliant instead of cowardly…as the wounded die of his incompetence.
Sheriff Israel should be indicted.
He left children to die, as a Paramedic I would have gone in with a team, it’s a calculated risk and the time between a live kid vs a dead one is short. He makes me sick. https://www.bleedingcontrol.org The DHS the White House, the college of surgeons are all promoting this training ( most classes are free ) but you have to be able to get to the injured