Again, the time he got there, Cruz was done and left with the other students... so, um, yeah, probably the best place to wait for backup as required.
Here, let me help you out.
The shooting began to unfold at 2:19 p.m. on February 14, 2018, after a gunman arrived at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School via an Uber.
www.businessinsider.com
Cruz entered the building at 2:17
He started firing at 2:21
Fire Alarm was pulled at 2:22 and that's when the students came out of the buildings. ALL the buildings.
2:23 - Peterson radios in shots fired, not sure which building, not entirely sure they are gunshots, they might be firecrackers.
2:28 - Cruz blends in with the other students, and leaves the building with them.
2:32 - Backup arrives and they enter the buidling.
First you say it was over and Cruz was gone by the time Peterson got there and then you show the timeline of events where Peterson was the one who heard the shots and called it in. Once again you contradict yourself.
A couple of things here:
1.) Peterson was the school resource officer which means HE WAS ALREADY THERE when the shooting started.
2.) You said:
"Here's the thing. Any cop who is being detailed to school security isn't one of the top performers to start with."
No, they don't appoint low performers as school resource officers. All of them are trained police officers just like the ones on the street. Some are full time SROs and some do it part time for extra money, as my niece's husband did for a while (who is now a detective, btw).
So the entire incident was really over in minutes, not hours.
No one suggested it was hours. However, it was ten minutes between the first shots and Cruz leaving the building; long enough to get in there and stop him.
In any case, even if it wasn't enough time, Peterson had no way of knowing how long Cruz would keep shooting. For all he knew, the shooting may have gone on another ten minutes. Point being, he should have entered the building
immediately after he heard the shots and called it in to try and stop Cruz.
Also, not knowing which building the shots were coming from and not knowing if they were firecrackers or not is a lame excuse. He was never going to learn this by waiting outside.
Nope, I'm observe how a culture acts, and cops need to clean up their culture.
One has nothing to do with the other. You did not know this officer was racist yet you assumed he was anyway for no other reason than that he was white and wearing a uniform. You lied about this officer's character.
When I first told you that you lied and that this meant you think all white officers are racist, you said not all white cops are racist. Then when I pointed out the contradiction between saying this officer was racist (when you had no idea) but not all white officers are racist, you simply reverted back to the bad cop culture narrative and doubled down on your lie that this officer was racist.
You're a lying, waffling, duplicitous douchebag.
As I mentioned earlier, I've been ticketed twice before; one for speeding and one for running a red light. Both officers were white.
I also had a similar situation where I was pulled over for a busted headlight. I was on my way to work in the early morning hours when some kind of big ass bird came up out of the dark and slammed into the left front of the grill on the truck. It startled me but I kept driving thinking it was just another dead bird.
However, just minutes later I see the flashing blue lights in the rearview so I pull over, wondering why he stopped me when I knew I wasn't speeding. He tells me I have a headlight out and that's when I realize the bird busted it when it hit me. I tell him about the bird strike so I get out and we both go to the front of the truck to look and sure enough, the headlight is out and the housing is cracked. But the thing that got me out of the ticket was there was a white feather stuck in the crack. It had been an egret, which is quite a bit larger and heavier than a robin or blue jay and explains why it busted the light.
Seeing I was telling the truth, he let me go after advising me to get it fixed at the first opportunity. I agreed and we both went our way. This officer too was white.
So don't give me that shit about bad cop culture when you and I both know that whites are ticketed every day.
A burned out headlight when I still had three out of four that were working just fine. Oh, you're white? have a nice day, sir.
Pulling people over for busted headlights is not a pretext. We're required to have all four operational at all times. It is the law and it is an officer's job to look out for these things. The officer is not obligated in any way to let you go just because you still have
"...three out of four that were working just fine."
Having one working headlight is inherently unsafe, not only because it reduces your ability to see obstructions like thrown truck tire retreads and whatnot but also because it alters your vehicle's true size and characteristics for other drivers; some might think you are a motorcycle or scooter and thus they become that much less focused and careful because subconsciously, they see you as less of a threat to themselves and their vehicles. It's why there has been an ongoing motorcycle awareness campaign for years. Motorcyclists are killed all the time by vehicles pulling out in front of them or sideswiping them.
Also, high beams are fine for low traffic areas but are not meant to be used in place of low beams at all times because then you compromise the night vision of oncoming traffic, injecting another added element of risk. It's why we're required to have high and low beams in the first place.