{"id":115187,"date":"2023-06-30T03:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T03:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115187"},"modified":"2023-06-30T03:45:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T03:45:30","slug":"jury-acquits-deputy-the-coward-of-broward-who-failed-to-confront-parkland-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115187","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jury Acquits Deputy [the &#8216;Coward of Broward&#8217;] Who Failed to Confront Parkland Gunman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/29\/us\/parkland-shooting-scot-peterson-verdict.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;A former Florida sheriff\u2019s deputy who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/22\/us\/nikolas-cruz-florida-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed to confront<\/a>\u00a0the gunman at a Parkland high school five years ago, and instead backed away from the building while the students and teachers inside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/14\/us\/parkland-school-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endured a deadly barrage<\/a>, was found not guilty of child neglect and other crimes on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scot Peterson, a former Broward County sheriff\u2019s deputy, was acquitted of seven counts of child neglect and three counts of culpable negligence for the deaths and injuries of 10 people on the third floor of the building where the shooting occurred. He was also found not guilty of one count of perjury for claiming to the police that he heard only a few gunshots and saw no children fleeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Mr. Peterson\u2019s behavior was revealed after the shooting, critics \u2014 including some fellow police officers \u2014 painted him as being too scared to face a heavily armed gunman. His actions outraged the Parkland community, and Mr. Peterson was cast as the central character in a morality tale about cowardice and law enforcement\u2019s duty to protect children. One victim\u2019s father told him to \u201crot in hell,\u201d and he was derided in national media outlets as the \u201ccoward in Broward.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;A former Florida sheriff\u2019s deputy who\u00a0failed to confront\u00a0the gunman at a Parkland high school five years ago, and instead backed away from the building while the students and teachers inside\u00a0endured a deadly barrage, was found not guilty of child neglect and other crimes on Thursday. Scot Peterson, a former Broward County sheriff\u2019s deputy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115188,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115187\/revisions\/115188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}