Former Deputy Scot Peterson is receiving a pension of $8,702.35 every month, after being criticized for avoiding the Parkland school shooter.
Nikolas Cruz went to Stoneman Douglas High School and killed 17 teenagers with a weapon resembling an AR-15 rifle.
County Sheriff Scott Israel of the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO), suspended Peterson after seeing the video of him remaining stagnant. Peterson resigned and retired shortly after the suspension on Feb. 22.
Peterson stated he was confident that his performance, under those circumstances, was appropriate.
There is, however, another issue, namely that there were repeated early warnings about Cruz’s potential to be a mass shooter.
On February 2016, the BSO police department was told by an anonymous caller of Cruz’s threats to the school on Instagram, it included a photo of him with guns. Peterson was notified.
On September 2017, Cruz made a comment on Youtube stating that he was going to be a “professional school shooter,” the report was made to the FBI in Mississippi but never made it to the BSO or the FBI in Miami.
On November 2017, a tipper from Massachusetts told the BSO that Cruz was collecting guns and knives that could end up being a “school shooter in the making.”
It was found that the BSO didn’t even make a report on Cruz collecting weapons. Internal Affairs investigated the issue more deeply by re-interviewing the person who gave the tip, they found that the BSO didn’t make a report because the tipper asked them to convey the information to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office. Cruz was living there at the time due to the death of his mother.
On January 2018, his desire to kill people was reported to the FBI tip line bit never made it to the FBI in Miami the month before the shooting.
This indicates that Cruz was on the radar of more than one law enforcement department.
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