Contractedded parkland shooting and endanger americas students. As a remind to those in the audience, we will be taking questions during the last 10 to 25 minutes of the electric tour and well let you know when ore opening it up and the lecture will be archived in our Speaker Series library. So when completed we encourage you to sheriff it on your social media platforms. Bill bentette identity it this the untold, unbelievable true story houston the world clubs brought by chit plately collect policy and wilful blindness made the most avoidable School Shooting in history somehow inevitable. Broward county florida was brown zero no are a new approach to school discipline, prompted by radical leftist organizations and enforced by Obama Department of education deer colleague hers. They pettled a false school to prison pipeline narratives claiming teachers and principals were systematically racist and could not be trusted to enforce rules with consequences. So instead, they argued for healing circles and Restorative Justice. As a consequence these policies enabled a psychopathic criminal to maintain a clean brown check and purchase a firearm used to murder 17 people, at marjory fillman doug loss high school on n2018. The Obama Administration forced these leniency policies into hundreds of schools serving billions of students. By way of a letter which threatened a loss of federal funding if schools were to have found racially disparate in their suspension rates. Max seeden is coauthor obook, senior fellow for education at the new york city bailed Manhattan Institute. He is a former Program Manager of the Education Policy Studies Department of the American Enterprise institute and has a ba from yale another. Andrew polack has experience in scrap metal and real estate but everything changed when his daughter meadow was murder by neck on february 14th last user now dedicates his life to making schools safe again. Founded a nonprofit, americans for childrens lives and School Safety thing accord towards ensuring the family of victims receive justice. [applause] , i i want to thank you for or coming i was never into politics before this happened. Actually the first time i voted wouldness 2016. So, i didnt when i looked all i wanted to know is, why my daughter meadow was murdered at the school. How i could bring my daughter i moved from long island and to an upper middle class neighborhood in broward, and i thought like every a parent, that the school is safe, and i didnt really look into really what was going on at the schools. Which something i live with to this day, not knowing what was going on the schools. So, february 14th was valentines day, and i was with my wife on a picnic, and thats when i got the call from my son. Should i say that. I wasnt going to do this speech ever again but it really kills me. So my son told me there was a shooting at the school. And like i didnt think anything of it. Just thought it was just maybe one incident or something happened with the Police Officer or was an accidental misfire. But as the day started regressing, it started getting worse, and the calls kept coming in and then they couldnt we couldnt find meadow all day long. So, we went from hospital to my wife worked at the hospital so we had to look i had at the going from room to room in the hospital, looking for my daughter, and we couldnt find her that day. She one in the operating room. And we gave up our search, must have been 4 00 in the afternoon and thats when we regrouped at home and i knew personally when we could not reach her by 6 00 that my daughter was murdered. And i tell everybody that i used the word murdered because thats what she was, a lot of people tell me, she passed, she died. I dont like it sugar coated. She was murdered at that school. So, within the next couple of days the media jumped on this event, and even the superintendent robert runsy was already blaming the nra, blaming guns, the sheriff, blaming guns, and to touch i just want to tell you why the sheriff the sheriff you were talking about this Restorative Justice program of leniency, not reporting crimes. These sheriffs are elected officials, and it benefits him to join these type of policies because his crime stats will look much better when he runs his commercial for sheriff when he can say he reduced crimes by 30 , but in actuality theyre just not arresting, through our investigation, the Sheriffs Department was at this murderers house 45 times without an arrest. The sheriff makes a point to say he judged his success rate by the kids he kept out of jail. So if thats the if he would have been arrested once, he would have brown would have been dinged and he would have when they tipped off the fbi it would have came up that he was a problem kid, but he had no background, no issues so, as time started going on, i needed to honor my daughter, and i wanted to find out everything that went wrong. And believe me, its in this book. Took a book, not an article that we first were going to put together. Its a book to show the magnitude of failures. And i owed it to my daughter to honor her. My daughter would want me to hold every single one accountable. And thats what im doing. Im wrecking everybody that got their hand in his. And its been a long path what we had to do, that a lot of people dont know about. We had to get a governor elected in florida. Ron desantis. Ron ran on accountability, and he stuck to his promise, and i knew he was going to do it, and i put my heart and soul into that guys campaign, and what did ron do the first week in office . He removed that piece of garbage sheriff israel from hoves and thats what that guy is youch dont know this but i know about it because i lived it and my daughters dead because of it. He changed the policy in active shooters to his deputies may go into the building. Used to read, deputies shall enter a building hitch changed his changed it on what is it the protocol, may go in. So of course, what happens . Five deputies show up, and none of them go into the building. You could hear the shots going off on their body cameras. Taking his time on his body cam, walks to the back of his car to put a vest on. When hi daughter is getting measured you hear the shots in the background, kids are getting shot and hes pulling up, putting a vest on, and doesnt go in the building. Another deputy hide behind a wall, doesnt go in. He was nine feet from the door to open the door where the killer was, and doesnt go into the building. And let everybody die. So, theres just so many failures that happened, and so ron desantis, he removed the sheriff. That was very important to me. Next thing ron does for accountability is he opens up grand jury investigation into the school board because theyre so unethical, the people. Im so damaged from living in broward, and i hate to cat gorize democrats, but i dont care no more. They hurt me more than any one imaginable. Whatever you hear them talking about the president , day in and day out, thats nothing compared to what this democrat in broward did to me and my family. None of them accept accountability. She sheriff was removed is actually running again in Broward County in 2020. And businesses are opening up fundraisers to this failed sheriff. Thats the type of people in broward. How unking the cal they and are what they do. How what they do the families and what i see and the superintendent, okay, families went to the School Board Meeting, and they wanted accountability. The asked the superintendent about this Restorative Justice policies he brought to brotherhood, and what did he say to the families . He called it reprehensible they would question him and they were called racists. For wanting accountability for their dead children. This is what the superintendent and the community did. The school board, none of dash few of them came around. I ran a School Board Race if can honestly tell you, i did everything humanly possible to try to fix this county of broward, and its just knost repairable. I ran a School Board Race to get rid of the policy, to fix the schools and who fought me at every single early voting . Is the broward teach evers union. Teachers. You know what i mean . I wanted to make it safer for the teachers. We wanted the School District safer, the teachers safer. Brothered Teachers Union fought us broward Teachers Union fought us like it was the north against the south and i had an army of people from all over the country to arent the School Board Race, but i couldnt get it done. What is ironic is, so because of these programs, these Restorative Justice programs in broward, we wanted to change it but they fought us so now about a month ago, wouldnt you know the head of the eachers union was at the School Board Meeting complaining to the district that all the teacher are getting bee up the teachers are getting assaulted, and we need to have a change in broward, and help me with the stats, max. Could you say the stats. This is the stats. So 2,000 teachers were interviewed in powered. Could you say the max. Asked what do you think would happen if a student assaults you . 2,000 teachers, 1,080 [inaudible] and seven expected to get numbers, not percentages. 39 of teachers would accept a student would assault them. [inaudible] so, what it gets crazier. I keep categorizing democrat us but at the end of it theyre all a democrat at the expend i had to teal with them. So this is the Teachers Union that fought us. This is the president now of the Teachers Union, is at the School Board Meeting, complaining that her teacher are getting beat up. Wouldnt you know that week they have a fundraiser for the sheriff, at a business, and who do you think is at the fundraiser supporting the sheriff . Broward Teachers Union president ; if you can believe it. This is just what is going on with the teachers and really its the Public School systems attack right now. California just passed a bill if anyone following education, Gavin Newsome signed into law its illegal to suspend a disruptive student. So, i dont i dont even know how it can make sense, even if youre a democrat. It cant make sense to you to put your kid in a school where they could be they can say whatever the want to teacher, act any way they want no consequence. What hurts those are the same policies that led to my daughter getting murdered, and theyre still in broward, this brotherhood, the School District, still has these policies. So when my daughter was at the school, one of the policies was they were allowed four misdemeanors per school year without ever getting introduced to the judicial system or Law Enforcement. So, one of them was which is i dont know how a parent you dont know these things. Didnt know them but im living with it now. So, they were actually i dont know the legal amount for weed i forget say its an ounce, if you had more than an ounce, it would be a felony. So in broadband county if you have 30 bags of weed in the school, and you distributing, and its less than that felony amount, they dont consider it a crime. It would be just into one of those of healing circles where they put it on the teacher. Lets put them in a healing circle, this child, and try and put a video on for him and that going to cure it. So, this i know is fact because the police, they make the police out to be the enemy, these bureaucrats that round these schools. I know as fact bus my buddies are in Law Enforcement at the schools. They have a special School Police unit who gave me those records of multiple children with with just drugs, ten bags of weed, 15 bags of weed, and they wont let them arrest the kids. That put them into that healing circle we spoke about. So, i dont know. Im just and what bothered me this week, too, is so this book is at the truth, whats in this book, regardless the media, everyone knows the people that got the attention in parkland were the gun people that wanted to say it was about the scary gun. It was the nra and if itself was that, id be up here telling you thats what it was, but like i said i was going to find out everything why and how my daughter got killed. And it was all these leniency programs of these kids, like they had to friction him before school frisk him before scoff he was so dangerous and he wasnt allowed in with a backpack. Thats how dangerous he was, threatened to shoot the school upwasnt arrested. Threatened student friday lives and never arrest. At one point his Mental Health workers wrote a letter to this psychiatrist that they were worried they couldnt find a hatchet. There was a hatchet missing in this garage and they didnt know what they should do with him. But those same councils, eight months later they recommended him to he mainstreamed into the School District with my daughter, the same people that was under his care. He from middle school he was infat waited with guns. In the book you could read the reports we got help said he wanted to kill. They hood to tie his desk down in middle school, and then at the end of the day when they mainstreamed his back into high school, the first class they put him in was jrotc where they taught him how to shoot and gave him an air rifle. Thats what is going on in the schools. So, what brings me also to say is when this first happened, my i really wanted to be the last parent that could say they lost a child in a school. But i saw that i couldnt achieve that. That was out of my hand. There was more School Shootings, santa fe, charlotte, and kids were getting killed and i couldnt be the last parent. Now i can honestly say i on two be the last parent that can say they didnt know what was going on in these schools. And that is why its important for me to get this message out. Dont what to hear it forgot a parent, i cant i believe kid was bullied, got his arm broken, cant believe the iphone was stolen i. I cant believe theyre selling drugs in he school if cant believe miskids got to sit there and twiddle his thumb is wheeling the teach are ha to deal with another kid for 20 minutes. All these things are going on and its no excuse for parents now to take it. Politics can only do so much. The president did his administration did so much for me and schools across he america but it doesnt mary what the president does help doesnt get any credit. He had the Federal School commission, he rescinded those even own era policies which meant a lot to me. They put ten months of research into it. But what does that mean . Broward county, where my daughter was murdered, its the greatest like the greatest thing since cut bread, this policy, of not disciplining kids and giving them chance after chance. Other School Districts still are going to deal with it. So, politicians can only do so much, and its on the parents now. I tell it to them. Listen, parents, you take your kid to the school bus, you drive them to the school you put them in that environment. You cant look for politicians to help you. Theyre not they cant do it at a local level when it comes to School Districts. The only people that can do anything now for the Public School system is parents and grandparents. Or else if its really doomed, the Public School system. Its just going to more segregation, i see coming, people that can afford it will send their kids to private school. Charter schools are booming. You cant get into a charter school. So, we just have to hope its on the parents and grandparents and i hope everyone would read my book, bring it to school, give it to a teacher, give it to a principal, and use it as a manual now. Thats what it is. Dont say its a book. Its a manual for parents to see what happened in broward if theyre interested in knowing the truth. And all week long i tried get on mainstream medias channels, to show them the truth, and they werent interested. Guess their viewer its not important to liberal viewers to put their kids in a safe environment and to know what is going on, and i tried. Believe me. Cnn, they cancelled on me. Msnbc, never heard back from. Abc, i shot a video for im still waiting tissue think they wasted my time. Cbs, i did a video. Wasnt important enough, childrens safety to be on one of their live shows and put me on a digital one and then trade to put me against used my clip and questioned another father that lost a kid to see if he would go against what i said. Thats what cbs did. So they t has to echannel are despickable and should be embarrassed not wanting the truth to get out. I its only parents that watch fog that though the truth but a i could have had a tent at fox between d. C. And new york and slept every one wanted to know the truth and they welcomed me on every single show, they did everything to get their listeners to really know the truth, and max is a facts. An educational policy guy. I dent know anything about this stuff but i felt the need to educate parents and get the word out, so thank you for coming, and well answer some questions, and max could speak, right . Thank you. [applause] thank you owl for cooking are its an mixed the reception to the book thus far and it was that phenomenon that let to me going down to parkland, meeting him, getting involved and kind of joining him on his mission to try to figure out why his daughter was murdered and make something good come out of it because at the very beginning, a day two days later two groups students came forward, one gr