Good - Sherrif Scott Israel arived at the scene and then hid during the Marjory Stoneman High School shooting. He showed cowardice and failed to do his job. He got booted and took his claim to the Florida Supreme Court. He lost. From the South Florida Sun-Sentinal:
Florida Supreme Court blocks former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel from getting his job back
Suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel lost his fight Tuesday to have the Florida Supreme Court return him to duty.
Now, in all likelihood, it’s up to the voters of Broward County to return him to office — if they want him back.
The court ruled that Gov. Ron DeSantis had the constitutional authority to suspend Israel in January for his agency’s failure to adequately respond to mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland and the Fort Lauderdale airport.
The decision all but ends Israel’s attempt to get his job back before the 2020 election.
The airport shooting was in 2017, Parkland in 2018. From the article:
The failure of the sheriff’s office to implement policy changes after the airport incident was one of the factors that led to the casualty rate at the high school, according to an independent commission that analyzed the response to the Parkland massacre.
Sounds pretty damning to me. The parents have justifiably responded. From NPR - April 11th, 2019:
'There Were Failures': Parkland Victims' Families File 22 Lawsuits Alleging Negligence
Families of Parkland school shooting victims are filing at least 22 lawsuits against Broward County's school board, sheriff's office and more, alleging they failed to prevent the attack that left 17 people dead and another 17 injured.
Attorneys representing families of those who were killed or wounded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, argue several organizations and individuals were responsible for the massacre. In addition to the school district and sheriff's office, other targets in the lawsuits, announced Wednesday, are Henderson Behavioral Health, which provided mental health services to confessed shooter Nikolas Cruz; former Stoneman Douglas security guard Andrew Medina, who was the first to see Cruz on campus but did not call a "code red" lockdown; and former Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid during the shooting rather than entering the school building to confront the shooter.
Good riddance to a failed cop.
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