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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Parkland high school saga: Say What?
2018-03-09
[HotAir] One sheriff’s deputy has "retired" for not running to the fire during a mass shooting at a Parkland high school. The Miami Herald reported yesterday that two other police officers got suspended from their SWAT assignments because they ran to the fire. Jeffrey Gilbert and Carl Schlosser were working in Coral Springs when they heard about the incident and wanted to help ‐ and that may end their SWAT careers:
No good deed goes unpunished.
As word spread that an armed attacker was shooting up a Parkland high school, two members of the Miramar Police Department’s SWAT team responded to the scene.
A brave person heads toward the sound of the guns.
They had been training in nearby Coral Springs earlier that day and wanted to help end a deadly mass shooting that claimed 17 lives.
It's apparently better to cower outside and receive forgiveness than to act and be punished.
But their own commander said he didn’t know they were going. And the Broward Sheriff’s Office ‐ worried about over-crowding a chaotic scene with law enforcement officers ‐ didn’t ask for them to show up. BSO already had its own SWAT team in motion.

Eight days after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the two Miramar officers, Det. Jeffery Gilbert and Det. Carl Schlosser, were temporarily suspended from duty with the SWAT team. They remain on active duty with the department, according to a Miramar police spokeswoman.

This sounds ridiculous at first, and it still might be an overreaction. However, it’s not completely unhinged, either. Be sure to read the entire article from the Herald’s Nicholas Nehamas, because it raises some pertinent issues that make this more than just a Bureaucrats Gone Mad story.
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#6  The sound of gunfire might have been a clue though.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2018-03-09 13:22  

#5  OTOH, people get shot in SWATTING incidents where the only thing they did wrong was step outside.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-03-09 11:33  

#4  Odd they were worried about overcrowding of Law Enforcement Officers where there were no officers!. That being inside the shooting gallery.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-03-09 11:00  

#3  I can't put my finger on it but something is just not right about this entire episode.

Ignoring the 39 calls for help.

Numerous calls to the FBI and the FBI closing the file.

Sheriffs standing down instead of actively engaging the shooter.

Neighboring law enforcement punished for acting.

Something just isn't right about this.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-03-09 10:32  

#2  Scott Israel & his BSO: "you made us look bad"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-03-09 09:45  

#1  You go anyway.Especially when you know your team mates are pulling out the binder on SOP while kids are eating 5.56.

Fuck parkland anyway. I did not see a town hall about making their LEO do something right like resign and I hear nothing about that piece of shit hamas sheriff.
Posted by: newc   2018-03-09 00:53  

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