Coward Scot Peterson has lawyered up and has an excuse for his cowardly actions during the Parkland shooting. He’s now claiming, through his attorney that the police report he got wasn’t about gun shots being fired in Building 12 at Stoneman-Douglas High School. Peterson now claims the police report said it was “firecrackers” go off when Peterson ran and hid behind a staircase. Personally, I would have thought that Peterson and his attorney would come up with a better excuse than this.
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Peterson had been assigned to guard the school, and his actions — or lack of them — were even lambasted by President Trump, who called Peterson “a coward” last week. Trump on Monday again slammed Peterson and other officers who allegedly did not enter the school, saying “the way they performed was frankly disgusting.”
Peterson’s lawyer Joseph DiRuzzo said in a news release obtained by Fox News the one-time school resource officer of the year didn’t go inside the high school because he believed the shooting was happening outside the building.
“Let there be no mistake, Mr. Peterson wishes that he could have prevented the untimely passing of the seventeen victims on that day, and his heart goes out to the families of the victims in their time of need,” according to the statement. “However, the allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue.”
DiRuzzo said Peterson is confident he followed procedures and will be exonerated.
Peterson contends he took up a position outside Building 12 at the school after rushing over to respond to a report of firecrackers, “and not gunfire.”