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Sheriff: Parkland School Cop Never Entered the Building

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Sheriff Scott Israel said he should have gone in, “addressed the killer, killed the killer.”

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The school resource officer who was assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, never entered the building where the mass shooting took place last week, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday. Israel said the officer should have “went in, addressed the killer, killed the killer.” Deputy Scot Peterson, the resource officer, resigned Thursday, Israel said, adding that the disclosure makes him “sick to my stomach” and “devastated.”

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