While I don't condone the inaction of the deputy, I can understand the reluctance of a lone officer, armed only with a single handgun, entering a building where an unknown number of assailants are firing away with semi-automatic weapons.
The bolded statement may be true -- but VERY misleading. The entire shooting took (according to timelines I've seen) five minutes. It probably took at least a couple of minutes for (former) Deputy Peterson to get to the building, and maybe another minute or two for other deputies to arrive. So "while the killer was present" is a very significant set of weasel words. Maybe the other three didn't show up until after the killer had departed -- but Peterson and the others on the outside didn't know that. That wasn't established until much later, when the video tapes were reviewed.Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told CNN on Sunday that investigators are looking into claims that three other deputies were on the scene but failed to enter the school when the chance to save lives still existed. To date, the investigation pointed to only one deputy being on campus while the killer was present, he said.
For some strange reason, teachers can be trusted with children and not firearms. Teachers that can be trusted with firearms concealed on their persons cannot be trusted with such on a school campus.
The state demands we wait for police to save us but then the police come but wait outside. Very strange.
I could be all wrong or just don't have the facts.
Could be training, too. Proper active shooter training is enormously expensive.Sounds like the City police went straight in. Leadership?