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Miami Herald: Multiple LEO Agencies and School Failed


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2018 Mar 9, 12:24pm   1,816 views  6 comments

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Nikolas Cruz threatened classmates, posted photos of himself holding guns, made violent statements online and was repeatedly described to authorities as a potential “school shooter.”

His troubling behavior gave law enforcement plenty of opportunities to investigate and arrest him — and even take away his guns — long before he shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last week, according to interviews with former South Florida prosecutors and legal experts.

In recent years, South Florida police detectives have arrested a slew of young men in unrelated cases who exhibited similar, troubling behavior on a variety of charges. Cops took them seriously.

It never happened with Cruz.


“There’s no doubt there was a failure,” former Miami-Dade prosecutor Marshall Dore Louis said of how law enforcement handled tips about Cruz. “The idea that they were aware of it and could do nothing is absurd. ... We can’t let this happen again.”

In the days since Florida’s worst school shooting, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has repeatedly insisted that his deputies were legally “handcuffed” from arresting Cruz — and he is calling for more powers for police to deal with similar cases.

It wasn’t just BSO that failed to stop Cruz.


The FBI did not act on two strong tips, one of which involved Cruz posting on the internet that he planned to become a “professional school shooter.” The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office was told Cruz had “put [a] gun to others’ heads in the past.” The Florida Department of Children and Families ruled him stable despite clear evidence of self-harm. And officials at Stoneman Douglas High, where Cruz killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day, knew that he was cutting himself, threatening students and taking pictures with guns and that he may have “ingested gasoline ... in an attempt to commit suicide.”

Those who could have stopped Cruz made “one mistake after another,” said Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, 18, was killed in the rampage.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article201887629.html

State of our hamstrung Public Mental Health: "Yeah, he ingested Gasoline, put guns to people's heads, posted violent pictures, said on the social media he wasnted to be a school shooter. But you know, we won't take his guns away and forcibly hospitalize him."

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1   MrMagic   2018 Mar 9, 1:31pm  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
Multiple LEO Agencies and School Failed


If we just had "common sense gun laws". (that the LEOs would actually enforce).

TwoScoopsPlissken says
put guns to people's heads, posted violent pictures, said on the social media he wasnted to be a school shooter. But you know, we won't take his guns away and forcibly hospitalize him."


There was another report the reason why he got expelled was that he actually brought a gun to school. So there's TWO felonies already, pointing a gun a another person and bringing a weapon to school. Before you add it all his other issues.

But it's the GUN's fault!!
2   bob2356   2018 Mar 9, 1:40pm  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
The FBI did not act on two strong tips, one of which involved Cruz posting on the internet that he planned to become a “professional school shooter.” The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office was told Cruz had “put [a] gun to others’ heads in the past.” The Florida Department of Children and Families ruled him stable despite clear evidence of self-harm. And officials at Stoneman Douglas High, where Cruz killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day, knew that he was cutting himself, threatening students and taking pictures with guns and that he may have “ingested gasoline ... in an attempt to commit suicide.”


I wonder how two scoops and sniper would have spun this story if Obama was still in charge of the FBI and/or it was a state that didn't have a republican government and governor? The condemnation of people in charge is curiously missing.
3   Tenpoundbass   2018 Mar 9, 1:55pm  

Libbies are shitting their pants.
4   bob2356   2018 Mar 10, 4:06am  

MyVoteDecidedTrump says
Libbies are shitting their pants.


Because trump's FBI and scott's state law enforcement screwed the pooch? How does that work in your strange world?
5   MrMagic   2018 Mar 10, 2:16pm  

bob2356 says
I wonder how two scoops and sniper would have spun this story if Obama was still in charge of the FBI and/or it was a state that didn't have a republican government and governor?


@bob2356

How does the total failure of the FBI, school system and local LEOs have anything to do with politics? Please enlighten us.

Unfortunately, the wacked out Dems think banning certain firearms and passing NEW laws will somehow make LEO's actually enforce EXISTING laws already on the books.

Liberal Logic at it's best!
6   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Mar 10, 2:22pm  

bob2356 says
I wonder how two scoops and sniper would have spun this story if Obama was still in charge of the FBI and/or it was a state that didn't have a republican government and governor? The condemnation of people in charge is curiously missing.


Or that the county responsible for the school and the sheriff's office leaned Democrat by double digits.

But really, what matters here is the Policy of the School and LEOs, which the Miami Herald reported on previously and is highlighting again.

Trayvon wouldn't have been shot by Zimmerman had he been in Juvi where he belonged for Buglary.

And that the FBI has had a string of disasters, including trying to rig the election. One wonders what the Deputy Director of Counterintelligence is doing tweeting 1000s of times to his Lover (already a major no-no for a counter-intel official because blackmail) over the elections, and talking about leaks to the Media. Doesn't the Deputy Director have other shit to do, like I don't know, preventing Chinese espionage rather than waste 100s of hours meddling in an election?

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