The Parkland school resource officer, Scot Peterson, who was on duty the day of the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. However, he never entered the building.
Now, after a 14-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, he was arrested Tuesday on 11 criminal charges related to his inaction during the massacre that killed 17 people.
He faces up to 100 years in prison.
Cops take an oath to serve and to protect the public. If they fail to take action, is that a crime? What does the prosecution need to prove? How is this like to play out if it goes before a jury?
In the podcast above: Hear from Legal Expert, Terry Bentley Hill, during It Takes 2.
(Scot Peterson)
(Reuters FIle Photo – Then-Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, who was assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the February 2018 massacre)
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