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• Time Lag on School's Video Misled Broward County Responders into Believing Shooter was Still on Scene

  22-02-2018 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly a half-hour after Nikolas Cruz dropped his rifle and fled Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police thought they were seeing him live on security cameras, still in the building. They were actually seeing images tape-delayed.The Broward School District’s security cameras did not show real-time video for police, complicating their efforts to track and pin down the shooter, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.“They are monitoring the subject right now. He went from the thir
  
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• Parkland High SRO Resigns Under Investigation for Failing to Engage Shooter

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  Embed from Getty ImagesThe Broward County (FL) Sheriff's deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing to enter the building as a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people.Sheriff Scott Israel said Deputy Scot Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.”Peterson has been a school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas since 2009. He began working for the sheriff’s office in 1985. The Sheriff&rs
  
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• Law Enforcement Now Nation's Most Dangerous Profession, Medical Journal Says

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  An estimated 669,100 law enforcement officers were treated in emergency departments across the nation for nonfatal injuries between 2003 and 2014, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).Law enforcement officers have historically high rates of fatal and nonfatal injuries. The new research shows that officers are three times more likely to sustain a nonfatal injury than all other U.S. workers, Insurance Journal reports.The study, No
  
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• Florida, Other States Consider Arming Teachers

  22-02-2018 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the aftermath of the Parkland High School shooting, President Donald Trump says that if one of the victims, a football coach, had been armed "he would have shot [the gunman] and that would have been the end of it."Revisiting an idea he raised in his campaign, Trump's comments in favor of allowing teachers to be armed come as lawmakers in several states are wrestling with the idea, including in Florida, where 17 school shooting victims are being mourned.Florida Republican Sen. Greg Steube said
  
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• Broward County Deputies Guarding Schools to Carry Rifles

  22-02-2018 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Deputies guarding schools in Broward County will carry rifles, including AR-15s, under an order issued Wednesday by Broward Sheriff Scott Israel.Israel said the order applies only to deputies qualified on rifles and has the support of Broward schools Superintendent Robert Runcie after the Parkland school shooting.“This morning I implemented a practice in the Broward Sheriff’s Office and spoke to Mr. Runcie who was fully supportive of my decision that our deputies who are qualified an
  
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• Broward County Deputies Criticized for Response to School Shooter

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  Embed from Getty ImagesThe Broward County sheriff on Wednesday defended his office's response to one of the deadliest school shootings in American history amid questions over whether some of his deputies hung back instead of pursuing the gunman accused of killing 17 people.Sheriff Scott Israel said that, to his knowledge, deputies followed protocol and did not wait for specialized teams to arrive before going into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. But he said that details ov
  
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• Trump Threatens to Pull Federal Immigration Agents from California

  22-02-2018 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Trump on Thursday lambasted California officials for how they are dealing with gangs and threatened to pull immigration and border agents out of the state to show just how bad things would be without federal help, reports the Los Angeles Times.Federal agents are working to defeat gangs like MS-13, the president said, but the gang members "come in, they're smart, they actually have franchises going to Los Angeles. No help from the state of California."He continued: "I mean, frankly, if
  
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