When you see the words written on a police car | We Serve and Protect | FORGET THE WORDS | PROTECT

Protect Who And When?

A judge has rejected a deputy’s claim that he had no duty to confront the gunman during the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.  |

Refusing to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parent of a victim, Broward Circuit Judge Patti Englander Henning found after a hearing Wednesday that ex-deputy Scot Peterson did have a duty to protect those inside the school where 17 people died and 17 were wounded on Feb. 14. Video and other evidence shows Peterson, the only armed officer at the school, remained outside while shots rang out.  |


The negligence lawsuit was filed by Andrew Pollack,  |   whose daughter Meadow was killed. He said it made no sense for Peterson’s attorneys to argue that a sworn law enforcement officer with a badge and a gun had no requirement to go inside.  |

“Then what is he doing there?” Pollack said after the ruling. “He had a duty. I’m not going to let this go. My daughter, her death is not going to be in vain.”  |

Peterson attorney Michael Piper said he understands that people might be offended or outraged at his client’s defense, but he argued that as a matter of law, the deputy had no duty to confront the shooter. Peterson did not attend the hearing.  |

“There is no legal duty that can be found,” Piper said. “At its very worst, Scot Peterson is accused of being a coward. That does not equate to bad faith.”  |

Meanwhile, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, which is investigating the shooting, heavily criticized the Broward school district Wednesday for not having a universal policy for calling a “Code Red” – the term for immediately locking down classrooms because an active shooter is on campus – and little training for staff and students.  |

 Commission members meeting in Tallahassee said that contributed to no one calling a Code Red until more than three minutes after the first shots were fired. By that time, 15 people were fatally shot inside the three-story freshman building and the last two victims were in the shooter’s sights. Nikolas Cruz, 20, a former student with mental health issues, has been charged with the shooting  |

 “I am extremely dismayed that the people around this table and behind the scenes are taking this much more seriously than Broward County,” said commissioner Melissa Larkin-Skinner, the Florida chief executive officer for a mental health treatment group. “It makes me physically ill. …  |


The commission also hammered then-security monitor Andrew Medina, who told investigators he saw Cruz entering the campus carrying a rifle bag and recognized him as the same student whom staff had previously identified as a potential school shooter.  |

 But instead of confronting Cruz or calling a Code Red, Medina radioed a security monitor inside the freshman building, investigators have said. He then drove his cart to get Peterson at the school’s administration offices. Medina told investigators shortly after the shooting that he was wary of calling a “Code Red” without more certainty about what was going on.  |

 Commissioner and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd called Medina’s failure to stop Cruz “reprehensible,” but also criticized the district for laying the brunt of school security on low-paid employees who have little training.  |

 Medina was fired in June after it was revealed he had sexually harassed two female students last year, including Pollack’s daughter.  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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||||||||| Purchase a gun and protect yourself because:|||||||||||||||||||  Court rules police ONLY have an obligation to protect you when YOU ARE IN CUSTODY!|||||||||||||||||


|||||| Following last February's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, some students claimed local government officials were at fault for failing to provide protection to students. The students filed suit, naming six defendants, including the Broward school district and the Broward Sheriff’s Office , as well as school deputy Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.  ||||||||

 |||||||| On Monday, though, a federal judge ruled that the government agencies " had no constitutional duty to protect students who were not in custody."  |||||||

 |||||| This latest decision adds to a growing body of case law establishing that government agencies — including police agencies — have no duty to provide protection to citizens in general:||||||

 

||||||||||||||“Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law.|||||||||||| “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.”||||||||||||

||||||| The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are “in custody,” he pointed out.||||||

||||||||| In other words you have to be arrested by the police beforeyou have  a Constitutional  right to be protected.||||||||

|||||||||| If you are a CRIMINAL police must protect you. If you are a citizen who needs the police to protect you --- They DO NOT have ANY Obigation to Protect You From Harm.---||||||||

 ||||||||||When you see the words written on a police car---We Serve and Protect----FORGET THE WORDS ---- PROTECT ----||||||||||||||||

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