I was in the wrong profession.
May 16, 2018 15:35:58 #
This topic is timely. The news of the day is a school shooting at the high school in Dixon, IL. Dixon is the hometown of former President, Ronald Reagon. This stuff is getting close to home, for Dixon is but a dozen miles from my hometown.
Anyway, I about s**t, when seeing the amount of retirement money this guy is drawing.
Tags: scot peterson | broward county deputy | parkland school shooting | parkland | florida
Parkland Officer Who Waited Gets $8,700 a Month Pension
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Wednesday, 16 May 2018 12:06 PM
The former Florida sheriff’s deputy slammed by President Donald Trump for failing to confront a gunman massacring students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is reportedly receiving a lifetime monthly pension of $8,702.35 – sparking outrage among parents of the teen victims.
"This infuriates me in ways people cannot comprehend. My daughter would still be alive if this person did his job," Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was among 17 people shot dead inside the Parkland, said on Twitter.
Scot Peterson, 55, a veteran Broward County deputy, resigned and retired just one week after he waited outside the high school as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz rampaged through the halls with an AR-15 assault rifle and picked off defenseless students and staffers.
After the bloodbath, Trump commented: "Look at Peterson. Look what he did in Broward where he thought he was probably a brave guy, but he wasn't a brave guy under pressure. He choked and other people choked." The president added that Peterson was either a "coward" or froze under extreme pressure.
Peterson has insisted he believed gunshots were coming from outside of the school and not inside the building.
News of the pension, reported by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, jolted the families whose loved ones were k**led.
Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow died, tweeted: "The coward of Broward, Scot Peterson is getting over $8k a month pension! He hid while my daughter and 16 others were slaughtered! How in the hell is he getting this? That money should go to actually securing our schools!”
Pollack has named Peterson and others in a wrongful death suit filed last month in Broward County Court.
Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine told the Miami Herald: "The thing he was supposed to do — protect these children — he didn’t do. Now he’s going to be paid by taxpayers for the rest of his life? It seems disgraceful."
According to the Sun-Sentinel, Peterson would not be entitled to his pension if he were convicted of a crime such as embezzlement or bribery, but his alleged failure to do his job doesn’t count. Until the shooting, he had been considered a "trusted school resource officer."
A surveillance video showed Peterson waiting outside the school as the gunman went after his victims inside. According to CNN, Brandon Huff, a senior, claimed he saw Peterson standing outside behind a stairwell wall, gun drawn "just pointing it at the building" as shots rang out inside.
"He's wearing a bulletproof vest ... while school security guards, coaches pretty much, were running in shielding kids," Huff said.
An investigation into Peterson’s actions was launched, but Peterson retired before its completion.
Shortly after the violence, Sheriff Scott Israel said Peterson should have "went in. Addressed the k**ler. K**led the k**ler."
The probe into Peterson’s response is ongoing, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman told the Sun-Sentinel.
Anyway, I about s**t, when seeing the amount of retirement money this guy is drawing.
Tags: scot peterson | broward county deputy | parkland school shooting | parkland | florida
Parkland Officer Who Waited Gets $8,700 a Month Pension
Image: Parkland Officer Who Waited Gets $8,700 a Month Pension
Wednesday, 16 May 2018 12:06 PM
The former Florida sheriff’s deputy slammed by President Donald Trump for failing to confront a gunman massacring students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is reportedly receiving a lifetime monthly pension of $8,702.35 – sparking outrage among parents of the teen victims.
"This infuriates me in ways people cannot comprehend. My daughter would still be alive if this person did his job," Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was among 17 people shot dead inside the Parkland, said on Twitter.
Scot Peterson, 55, a veteran Broward County deputy, resigned and retired just one week after he waited outside the high school as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz rampaged through the halls with an AR-15 assault rifle and picked off defenseless students and staffers.
After the bloodbath, Trump commented: "Look at Peterson. Look what he did in Broward where he thought he was probably a brave guy, but he wasn't a brave guy under pressure. He choked and other people choked." The president added that Peterson was either a "coward" or froze under extreme pressure.
Peterson has insisted he believed gunshots were coming from outside of the school and not inside the building.
News of the pension, reported by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, jolted the families whose loved ones were k**led.
Andrew Pollack, whose 18-year-old daughter Meadow died, tweeted: "The coward of Broward, Scot Peterson is getting over $8k a month pension! He hid while my daughter and 16 others were slaughtered! How in the hell is he getting this? That money should go to actually securing our schools!”
Pollack has named Peterson and others in a wrongful death suit filed last month in Broward County Court.
Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine told the Miami Herald: "The thing he was supposed to do — protect these children — he didn’t do. Now he’s going to be paid by taxpayers for the rest of his life? It seems disgraceful."
According to the Sun-Sentinel, Peterson would not be entitled to his pension if he were convicted of a crime such as embezzlement or bribery, but his alleged failure to do his job doesn’t count. Until the shooting, he had been considered a "trusted school resource officer."
A surveillance video showed Peterson waiting outside the school as the gunman went after his victims inside. According to CNN, Brandon Huff, a senior, claimed he saw Peterson standing outside behind a stairwell wall, gun drawn "just pointing it at the building" as shots rang out inside.
"He's wearing a bulletproof vest ... while school security guards, coaches pretty much, were running in shielding kids," Huff said.
An investigation into Peterson’s actions was launched, but Peterson retired before its completion.
Shortly after the violence, Sheriff Scott Israel said Peterson should have "went in. Addressed the k**ler. K**led the k**ler."
The probe into Peterson’s response is ongoing, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman told the Sun-Sentinel.
May 16, 2018 15:48:37 #
proud republican
Loc: RED CALIFORNIA
Sheriff
Sheriff Israel is no better in my opinion. In fact he is worse..He threw his man under the bus, nit that Peterson didnt deserved it...But Israel is just as bad!!!..He should lose his job and pension for not doing his job!!!
Richard Rowland wrote:
This topic is timely. The news of the day is a sch... (show quote)
Sheriff Israel is no better in my opinion. In fact he is worse..He threw his man under the bus, nit that Peterson didnt deserved it...But Israel is just as bad!!!..He should lose his job and pension for not doing his job!!!
May 16, 2018 16:37:35 #
America 1
Loc: South Miami
proud republican wrote:
Sheriff
Sheriff Israel is no better in my opinion. In fact he is worse..He threw his man under the bus, nit that Peterson didnt deserved it...But Israel is just as bad!!!..He should lose his job and pension for not doing his job!!!
Sheriff Israel is no better in my opinion. In fact he is worse..He threw his man under the bus, nit that Peterson didnt deserved it...But Israel is just as bad!!!..He should lose his job and pension for not doing his job!!!
Sheriff Scott Israel, a lapdog for BO's policy.
BO awarded schools that did not report troublesome students.
In his opinion, too many minorities were jailed.
Law was called to the Cruz home between 39 and 45 times.
What action was taken? NONE.
May 17, 2018 10:47:31 #
The Broward Cowards should forfeit all pay for 90 days . Any Broward Coward on duty during that shooting should forfeit all benefits upon leaving that agency.
May 17, 2018 10:51:13 #
Richard Rowland wrote:
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How is it even possible that this person draws so much in pension, seriously how is it pissible???
Nice little retirement for a coward, some reward there for sure!!
May 17, 2018 11:21:17 #
America 1
Loc: South Miami
lindajoy wrote:
How is it even possible that this person draws so much in pension, seriously how is it pissible???
Nice little retirement for a coward, some reward there for sure!!
Nice little retirement for a coward, some reward there for sure!!
That is the democrat cesspool of Broward County.
Government workers get paid mega bucks, teachers get crumbs.
May 17, 2018 18:24:47 #
Richard Rowland wrote:
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This is d********g. He should've been fired for dereliction the day the shootings happened. And more pathetic that other adults ran in unarmed to help. His pension would be gone if chief Israel did HIS job and fired him!!!
May 17, 2018 18:25:40 #
America 1 wrote:
That is the democrat cesspool of Broward County.
Government workers get paid mega bucks, teachers get crumbs.
Government workers get paid mega bucks, teachers get crumbs.
May 17, 2018 22:27:25 #
debeda wrote:
This is d********g. He should've been fired for dereliction the day the shootings happened. And more pathetic that other adults ran in unarmed to help. His pension would be gone if chief Israel did HIS job and fired him!!!
And Israel should have been gone too!!
I could not believe his position!!
May 17, 2018 22:30:41 #
America 1 wrote:
That is the democrat cesspool of Broward County.
Government workers get paid mega bucks, teachers get crumbs.
Government workers get paid mega bucks, teachers get crumbs.
Well it certainly warrants some scrutiny here!!
D********g it is, and a slap in the face of ” No justice”, that's for sure!!
May 17, 2018 23:00:27 #
America 1 wrote:
That is the democrat cesspool of Broward County.
Government workers get paid mega bucks, teachers get crumbs.
Government workers get paid mega bucks, teachers get crumbs.
Teachers in Illinois get paid well and their pensions are phenomenal. 80% of their last 3 years worked. In most cases that's around 80k for retirement. Not too shabby.
May 17, 2018 23:16:40 #
America 1
Loc: South Miami
debeda wrote:
Teachers in Illinois get paid well and their pensions are phenomenal. 80% of their last 3 years worked. In most cases that's around 80k for retirement. Not too shabby.
Still far below 104,400.
In addition 50% of health insurance.
May 17, 2018 23:48:55 #
America 1 wrote:
Still far below 104,400.
In addition 50% of health insurance.
In addition 50% of health insurance.
Oh yeah no argument there.
May 18, 2018 11:05:38 #
debeda wrote:
Teachers in Illinois get paid well and their pensions are phenomenal. 80% of their last 3 years worked. In most cases that's around 80k for retirement. Not too shabby.
I Remember when Rahm first came on duty and challenged the teachers pension plan. What a fiasco that was, two weeks of teachers having off and a supposed strike that they subsequently one...
They had to open the schools tho to provide breakfast and lunch to the underprivileged that attended school..
He also tried it with the cops and lost..
May 18, 2018 13:18:29 #
lindajoy wrote:
I Remember when Rahm first came on duty and challenged the teachers pension plan. What a fiasco that was, two weeks of teachers having off and a supposed strike that they subsequently one...
They had to open the schools tho to provide breakfast and lunch to the underprivileged that attended school..
He also tried it with the cops and lost..
They had to open the schools tho to provide breakfast and lunch to the underprivileged that attended school..
He also tried it with the cops and lost..
Yeah Rahm is an all around disaster. I'm hoping and praying he gets booted next e******n. There were some rumblings a couple of months back about the negative impacts to the community for the Obama library. That got squashed right quick but we'll see if it pans out in the next mayoral e******n. Here's hoping!!
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