let me say, tucker, i m an outside counsel for sheriff s office, part of my job as an attorney. i can tell you the sheriff s a friend of mine, i know tons of law enforcement officers. not one single officer that i know in that situation wouldn t have gone scrambling into that hallwayg come of the stairways, whatever it took to save thoseir children. what we have here is a poorly run agency, whether it was the officer on site or the three that came in the car or the officers that went out to his house, as you said, 23 times, and never did anything, even though he was a threat, whether it was the deal that he entered into with the superintendent, that said we will have a no arrest policies that he can bring guns at knives and bullets to school, all of these things - in a funny thing is, this is by his own words. what sheriff israel said, each one of those situations, the officers outside, the school resource officer inside, the people insideer who denied first responders the ability
shooting. the day after the shooting we arrested five just in our local area. that s just here not the whole united states. let me ask you this. we had a test case of this, did we not at parkland. because there was an armed school research, resource officer, sor as we know, trained uniformed guard, who didn t do anything. and listen i don t want to attack this one person too much. i spoke to a u.s. retired u.s. general tonight who commanded troops in iraq and said that reaction to violence is not uncommon. i mean, if the armed trained uniformed security guard at parkland didn t do it, why would we expect teachers like sarah or others to be that frontline responder? i wouldn t expect sarah to be a frontline responder. i would expect, when you have people like the officer there, just imagine if we had some teachers in the school that were certified and trained, we would at least have somebody in that school with a weapon.
what are you learning tonight about what happened? reporter: it s an additional horrific turn in the narrative, jim. and, remember, just a couple of days ago that these families who lost their children wrl told by the fbi that they had received a tip that they had failed to act on. now on top of that, they are being told there was an armed officer, the school resource officer, a trained veteran sheriffs deputy in uniform with aside arm standing outside the building where the shootings are taking place, and that officer, scott peterson, did not do anything according to scott israel which is broward county sheriff. they said they are launching an investigation. asked for his resignation. instead he is it resigning and going into retirement. but it is a horrible turn of events. questions have been raised about scott peterson eversince the shooting on campus especially for the families who had lost children. now it appears the time that he was waiting outside, the only
but there was someone in the school with weapon. please. they didn t go in. we had an officer in our school with a weapon also. he was in the cafeteria. and when he waited for him and the principal to leave the cafeteria, then the kid jumped up and shot four people, emptied weapon out, 15 years old. you need backup in the schools. officers aren t always the answer. you need someone twout a weapon that can be trained. when people say go ahead. let s give sarah a chance because she s in the classroom. sarah, what do you think? sure. okay. so just for argument sake, sheriff, if i were to have a gun and carry it at school and this happened in the cafeteria where i am not, how am i helping? if someone comes into my classroom and i m on the other side of the room not near ply gun, how is the gun going to
morning. going inside, grabbing their personal items. in the words of one a geography teacher at the school, he said our new normal has yet to be defined. for the first time since they flooded their classrooms and panic nine days ago, they were able to come back to grab any personal items that they may have left behind, things like purses, briefcases, cell phones, laptops, and the disappointment over the newly revealed in action by the school resource officer, who stayed outside the freshman building, while the bullets were flying and kids were dying. scott peterson, who just four years ago was awarded school resource officer of the year for his tax and follow judgment, retired late yesterday after being suspended by the sheriff who said that he was absolutely second that the officer did not barge into the building and confronts the gunmen. and to the governor just now spoke up in tallahassee, he has got a new action plan to