‘Thrown Under The Bus’: Defense Slams Case Against Former Parkland Officer in Opening Statement
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2023
- “My client was sacrificed, thrown under the bus,” defense attorney Mark Eiglarsh said to jurors as he began his opening statement in the trial against former Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson. The defense claims Peterson has been used as someone to point the finger at - someone to blame - for the deadly massacre that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. The state argues Peterson didn’t follow active shooter training and could have saved students’ lives the day of the gruesome crime.
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LET'S BLAME THE KILLER.
The "evidence will show" this man was, is and will always be the coward who STOOD outside hiding for 40 minutes and NEVER entered that building to even CHECK to see if it was coming from inside!!! EVEN after backup LE arrived!!!
This is not Texas shooting. It didn't last 40 minutes. It was less than 7 minutes.
even if he did not want to use his gun which makes it hard to believe he still could have put the school into code red that other guard who hid in the cupboard on the second floor instead of warning the teachers and kids on on the 3rd floor that the was a shooter into the school is much to blame has well
Sir you make our profession proud. So many times, I watch defense lawyers and ask "where is the outrage on behalf of your client?" This is what outrage looks like. Smart judge too.
I agree. I appreciate the outrage when it is genuine. It tells me the attorney TRULY believes in their client and / or holds the other side 💯 accountable to the letter of the law.
Keep in mind that there are usually no objections during an opening statement. If the prosecutor objected that much, just imagine how much they will object during the evidence phase. That shows that they really have no case.
Keep in mind that they were all sustained. Big difference.
Many prosecutors are pathetic. Kamala Harris was a prosecutor and she's a complete joke as a VP.
How she made it through law school and passed her bar is a mystery to me.
@@garyg8036 facts
@@garyg8036ecause she's a smart lady and I'm glad she's my VP. Prosecutors put bad guys away every day of the week and I constantly hear "how could they defend that awful man" Then today you decide to pick on your VP and Prosecutors.. edit: so ,just like a defense attorney, he's just "doing his job.
@@mainstreamnemesis1086no facts at all
This cop was not nearly as big a coward as the ones from Uvalde. The Uvalde “officers” should all be charged with child neglect
With Uvalde I can see many officers thinking someone else should do it. In this case, he was the only one that could help and he didn't. I don't see how an old "brave" man with a gun that was officer of the year just a year or so prior could just run away. Leaving helpless children to face that monster.
@@7996hobguy he never ran away. He ran to where he thought the sounds were coming too. Perhaps you should watch the trial and look at the evidence & not what media has fed you.
@@7996hobguy So fire him. But he's not a criminal.
@@micchaelsanders6286 No he's a coward and he will have to live with that the rest of his life.
@@7996hobguy yep! he didnt mind being batman in the eyes of those children. but when it came time to save them, he soiled his lace underwear
This is a very compelling argument by Mark Eiglarsh. It sounds like they wanted to find someone else to blame.
Please he's a coward who didn't do his job. He stood outside while people died. What's the point of having armed police there if they do nothing. People advocating for gun ownership claim a good guy with a gun is the solution not gun control. They're wrong because like Evalde police are only worried about themselves.
This was clearly a trail to put blame on someone like the SRO. An SRO is only as effective as the information he receives. Also SCOTUS has ruled that police do not have a duty to protect. And one more thing, the charges of child neglect was not put into law for incidents like this. In fact , everything that happened at parkland falls at the feet of the shooter and ONLY the shooter.
So how are the charges for the Uvalde police going?
Uvalde is a COMPLETELY different scenario from
This.
@groomer: the "hey look over there" is never a reply that deserves any respect.
@@ShutUpAndBump you're right. It's a million times worse and so far no one from law enforcement has been held accountable for their disgusting lack of action.
For sure the Uvalde police officers did act cowardly and deserve to be held accountable. However, "what-about-ism'" isn't a valid argument when your dealing with different states with different laws and policies involving police officers. 🙄
@@tishwitch all those Uvalve cops should be tried next for cowardice in their line of duty and Breach of Public Trust...never to be employed in a position of public trust ever again!!!
This cop is a scapegoat and is sickening that they charged him to begin with.
@@davidwilliam9451 beat me to it!!! Plain, and simple!!! He is a coward!!!
@@davidwilliam9451 That’s not a criminal offense. You can fire him for that, but that’s it.
@@micchaelsanders6286 Well this is the case that is trying to change that, so that these people whose paid to put their life before the children's can't just walk away with being fired when the threat actually comes and they decide to not do their DUTY.
Please he's a coward who didn't do his job. He stood outside while people died. What's the point of having armed police ther if they do nothing. People advocating for gun ownership claim a good guy with a gun is the solution not gun control.
Dude the judge in Cruz trail proves it.
There is no case here. He should sue after the case is thrown out
How many times will they interrupt the OPENING arguments???????!!
If he thought shots were fired from football field, WHY did he just STAND THERE!? Why didn't he go TOWARDS football field!???
Because he was a coward. Any vet would be running towards the sound of gunfire like they're trained to do. This guy just sat shaking in his boots.
My daughter is an SRO. This is my nightmare fear. But her Chief would never throw her under the bus. No way.
@Susan Weik• sorry but these kinda cops are so proud of all their military gear that they brag and intimidate innocent citizens with it everyday.
When it came down to what they get trained and paid for they falter...and it costs people's lives and destroyed families.
That was his assignment he had 30 years of experience...but he coward and hid!!!
If this guy is convicted for trying to save lives (remember, he was a well decorated, multi-award winning officer with a long career span and many lives saved) imagine what that will do to jobs within the police force. Who will want to do this job?
@@TMCremixes this guy spent 30 years posing as something he wasn't, he got exposed and called on his BS just like in Uvalve Texas.
@@madmaximilian5783 uhm no, you get decorations and awards for saving lives, not for posing. He has an extensive track record of being a great officer and saving many lives. Why are you lying?
@@TMCremixes this ex-cop really,really needs you at his trial to explain to all those families and the community how proud you are of him and what a big hero he is.
I hope they get the audio mic'd up better moving forward in this trial
I have NEVER heard so many objections and seen so many disruptions in an opening statement!!! I hope justice is served in this case...it seems off to a rocky start
This man served his community as an officer for over 30 years and is on trial for his life because some sick murderer decided he wanted to kill innocent children. It is ridiculous. Cruz and the people who ignored his mental health problems and signs that he was a psychopath are to blame for this tragic event not this officer in my humble opinion. Yea I’d like to think I would absolutely run in and give my life to save those kids but no one truly knows how they will react when the time comes.
When u become a school resource officer probably best to know how u would react, or maybe just don't become one...
I was with you until the end. This has nothing to do with his reaction. He did what he was supposed to do.
he is a coward who could of saved lives. He was criminally neglectful of what he was supposed to do. Protect the lives of children. He and the other cops who ran away
are shameful ............ (RUclips wont allow me to say)
Can anyone receive a fair trial in this county involving this massacre? I didn’t like seeing the Sheriff smiling when there was a sidebar. Makes me feel that the Defense Attorney hit close to home to the Sheriff!!
He did sometime cowardly.
Mark is the best of the best. Judges highly respect this man.
The prosection has literally no case here
This trial is a waste of taxpayer money.
It's worth it to see a coward squirm.
Absolutely
💯 it’s also a witch hunt
Uvalde, Sandy Hook, Columbine, Buell elementary, Lake Worth middle school, University of Washington Medical Center, University of Arkansas, Carter G. Woodson Middle School , Junipero Serra High School, Osborn High School Santana High School shooting Bishop Neumann High School Granite Hills High School Lew Wallace High School Pacific Lutheran University Martin Luther King, Jr. High School Appalachian School of Law Washington High School Benjamin Tasker Middle School University of Arizona THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN AMERICA. LET'S SUE EVERYONE INVOLVED WHO "DID NOTHING". This trial is despicable.
I saw the victims parents and my heart absolutely shattered! With my oldest daughter starting school soon, I'm TERRIFIED. This is every parents worst nightmare💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Rest Easy 17
Mark is a fighter for his client. I will watch this closely.
its crazy he's on trial for being a human being and being scared. For not dying. This is really insane
Well said.
He's on trial because he took an oath to protect and serve and he didn't. If you are a coward, don't become a police officer.
Watch the videos of him hiding outside. The defense says he didn't know where the shots were coming from. Then listen to his radio transmission. He knew exactly where the shots were coming from and refused to even try and save anyone.
@flatdaddio• this just goes to show that cops are soooo proud of all their military gear and toys that they brandish them everywhere, threatening the public for any reason.
But when it comes down to actually earning the big money and position they have...they cower and hide like little scared boys!!!
Your right on the money and for that I think he will be found guilty!!!
No you are lying that is not what the evidence shows!
@@ak9989 what does it show?
And he never refused to do anything…I was a dispatcher and I would never send one cop to gunshots much less a shooting. That’s insanity. Scot is innocent. He did nothing wrong and his code red and being outside saved lives.
I luv this defense guy, awesome 👏🏻
Uvalde is still wondering when they'll see officers held to account....
Great job, Mark!!!
Reasonable doubt, big time.
Yes, the other security/officers "did not go into the building either" (10:58) because they were not armed with a gun. However, the only officer who was armed with a gun (the defendant) chose not to go in. And, yes, it took SWAT 30 minutes to clear the floors (@44:40 to 45:00), but there was no more active shooter at that point, they did not hear any shots. And that has nothing to do with what Peterson DID NOT do. Peterson was trained to run toward the shots in an active shooter scenario. But he did not even try to find out where the shots were coming from. He heard the shots. He heard the active shooter. Yet, he stood in one spot the entire time. He did not even try.
he asked where they werecoming from
Because he was a coward!
This guy did absolutely nothing wrong!
Absolutely nothing!!
I love this defense attorney. He’s so good.
Yeah, he's brilliant. He is the one I told my daughter to hire if I ever get accused of something.
@@davidwaring6815
right lmao?!?! what is the original commenter talking about LMAOOOO.
ppl like OP are the reason nobody likes republicans… how u gonna defend a man who literally didn’t do his job!!!!
Indeed. He's elicited two objections from the prosecutor during the first 8 minutes of his *opening statement* when It's rare for objections to be raised, and rarer still that they would be sustained, during opening...
Mark ? What his name
I like this defense attorney ,Mark Eiglarsh..he is the best..I hope he wins this case. They’re
using this man as a political scapegoat. We’ll see how this all pans out.🤔🤷🏼♀️ God Rest those
Poor innocent Children. ❤️🙏🏼😭
Eiglarsh is a very talented litigator. One of the most compelling openings I've seen--especially in light of the fact that his client was labeled a coward from day one.
The only question is… why is it only ONE cop charged with being a coward? Many of them deserve the same punishment
Very impressive oratory. I love to see a good lawyer at work.
he’s just one guy with a gun against an ar15 with a mad man holding it ... i know people are sad but we can’t blame him for the actions of someone else
Thank goodness the jury got this right. Mark did an awesome job. I pray for God’s peace for the parents who lost their children by that horrible monster.🙏🏽
Why is he being charged .Is he a scapegoat ? I believe he may be
@Lisa Nagle• this little coward got paid for 30 years to do his job,and with all the military gear they are sooo proud of... he hid and coward and failed all Public Trust he was entrusted with.
@@davidwilliam9451 but is being a coward a real crime?
Total BS. I’ve been keeping up w this for a few days. This guy is totally getting screwed.
He is?
This man is clearly a fall guy. He's blessed with an excellent attorney though. I hope this poor excuse of a trial will bring justice and set him free.
This man lost his job, pension and dignity and was disgraced by the community. What more does anyone want.
I believe that the community wants blood. I saw how the Defense Attorneys were attacked during victims statements after Cruz was found guilty.
he should be paraded down main street in a lacy pink dress for starters. maybe a coward tattoo on his forehead. no im not serious. he will have to live with this forever, he is only forgiven by god, nobody who lost loved ones will ever, they might say so, but they never will
Is that lawful law your honor
OBJECTION
GROUNDS
They need to get a mathematician in there to give the jury a clear understanding of the odds of him making a difference if he were to enter the building blind without hearing where the shots are to choose the exact right floor, and happen to turn the corner in a favorable angle to get a decent shot off against the shooter during the last 2 mins upon when he actually arrived at the scene. Likely he would’ve died, next he probably wouldn’t have made any difference as the damage was already done and he would’ve had to climb the stairs and find the shooter which would’ve taken additional time. If he blindly entered the building and happened to come across the shooter in a stairwell he may have had an advantage with close quarter combat in killing the shooter but if he came out of the stairwell and turned the corner and met the shooter from the other side of the hall he would’ve been toast going up against the shooters mid-long range AR.
And apparently the cop also wasn't wearing any body armour. Sadly I don't think he would have made a difference.
Love this notion of a case based on logic rather than emotions. 👏
Wow it’s as if he doesn’t know what an opening statement is. It’s a roadmap to the evidence that will be shown, not argue your client’s case to the jury.
He knows. He admitted it.
Yea, well, he won.
Right case....wrong school
Active Shooter Training that is what is in question. Not being a "thrown under the bus" you have fallen right for their trap.
I’m on the side of guilty right now. We’ll see if it changes.
If the sounds of the shots fired are as bad and indistinct as the defense's microphone, then *I vote to acquit !*
The audio sucks. I can’t even listen to this.
It gets better imo. I felt that way for the first few mins too.
Why is this being prosecuted? Who would convict this? It was fluid and chaotic and not a video game where you have a blip on a map telling you where to go.
Because they need to pretend that if they just put this guy away nothing like this will ever happen in Florida again. Is was just this guys fault otherwise everything is just fine and you don’t have worry about your kids.
It’s a political prosecution at the end of the days
Because they will prove he knew where the shots were coming from
@@sallycinnamon5370 💯
Police are trained to intervene in active shooter situations. He could have at least gone inside to check rather than doing nothing.
@@casienwhey Which building? Nowhere in active shooter training does it say you should run around like a chicken with your head cut off. If he had run into the wrong building it would have been even worse.
The person that thought a system where the only cop on site didn’t need to get the information about where the active shooter was and should have to figure it out on his own on a 45 acre campus should be the one punished.
This was a systemic failure….they need to fix their system. Maybe they could have used some of the millions that they used to investigate and try this case!
I'm on the defense side. even if Scot had gone straight in the right direction (which is not to be expected) it is not certain that he could have saved lives. Cruz acted too quickly for that.
He was supposed to try though, so we will never know.
There is a big difference between trying and doing nothing.
Scot Peterson wouldn’t have stopped Nicholas Cruz, who had an AR 15 and body armor. Scot Peterson had a pistol and no armor. A little over 6 minutes was all it took. This case was BS.
This was an absolutely sad and horrifying event. One man did not, (in the eyes of those needing a fall guy) do enough. I blame the SYSTEM AT LARGE. Schools and Law enforcement should be better prepared for the "times" in which we live!
I agree 1000per cent poor children and all rip😢😢😢😢
Cruz killed then all in less than 7 minutes. There is no chance you are ever going to stop a determined killer that moves quickly.
Maybe y’all need to start parenting your kids and dealing with their lack of adjustment instead of expecting LE to by prescient. There is something rotten at the core of America…so guys need to deal with that.
No preparation in the world will help. They gotta stop them before they happen. Once they start it’s hard to stop them. No cop should have to take on a mass shooter by himself…ever..and that’s what they’ve done here. They wanted him to do that. He did save lives by the actions he took. Going in would have gotten him dead too..just like it did the coach and the school monitor.
If he didn't know where the shots were coming from, WHY did he just stand there while they were happening instead of trying to find out? Because he knew exactly where! He told multiple LE and others exactly where they came from! THAT is what the evidence will show! It does NOT matter what happened days AFTER the shooting. What matters is WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN the day those students and staff were slaughtered! HE failed to take action! He hid! Even after backup arrived!!!
Andrew Medina should be on trial for child neglect
Are the prosecutors in FL bored? Or are they chasing cases that will make headlines?
This is disturbing this man has been charged at all!!! This is horrible and a waste of time and money. Shame on the prosecution and the state.
Put security checks at the door of the schools. Why bring this cop to trial NOW? Smh
Im surprised by the comments saying the prosecution has no case. Whether he knew where the firing was coming from or not (which is something the jury would determine) didn't he have an obligation to find out and then intervene? Otherwise why did he come over in the gulf cart at all? What purpose would having an armed SRO at a school serve if he was not expected to help? The students were required to be there due to truancy type laws and so the state has an obligation to care for them while they are there. The SRO was hired by the state to help do that.
The follows the shots, tries to investigates, calls code red and gets back up..no where in the policy does it say he should intervene on his own. The prosecution is telling tales.
Oh, and the SRO is not a caregiver.
Your client is a joker man , he is acting , at one end he is laughing and the other end he is crying , he is trying to prove himself an innocent , he has no guts to go on top and save the students even he was armed .
As a juror, I would HATE being yelled at by a lawyer for no reason.
Who was yelling at them? The defense attorney? Share the time on the video.
This attorney will hopefully save this man from what are absolutely ridiculous charges. Politically motivated and a certain group of people trying to find a scapegoat for other peoples failings. Scandalous.
Why is he shouting at the jury fhs?
Something wrong with his microphone, that is why he is speaking loudly.
I hate it when prosecutors or defence start their opening statements with actual evidence instead of just explaining to the jury what evidence they can expect to see and what it will prove. Leave the actual evidence part for witness testimony. This is rather painful imo.
I remember a prosecutor recently on a high profile case (can’t remember which one exactly) that went on n on in her opening statement showing n explaining away for 4 WHOLE HOURS and she kept correcting herself n mis-speaking several times. It was by far the most brain-hurting opening statement I’ve seen to date.
This guy doesn’t go on for that long, but he’s definitely entering into evidentiary testimony n it’s frustrating. No wonder there’s so many objections to his opening statement 🥴
The Pike County trial.. Prosecutor told about the Whole 4 years it took to catch the criminals 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ She said UMMM about 10,000 times during it. Horrible prosecutor!
@@Can_tsleep lol 😆 omg…yes! 🙌 That’s the one. I forgot about all her UMMM’s. That was the most painful opening statement I’ve ever heard. I remember commenting that she needed to shut-up before she destroyed the whole case with her opening statement, with the amount of mis-speaking’s and self-corrections she made, cos she would probably confuse the jury and come across as not credible with all her mistakes.
You would think she’d have her opening statement memorised and constructed in a way that every single word she spoke was impactful considering how much time she had to prepare for trial 🤦♀️
The best opening statement I’ve ever heard (and I think should be used to educate those pursuing a career in law) was that of prosecutor William Brown in the Chandler Halderson trial. That was compelling, effective and succinct.
It is strategic - he is no fool. As the defense he has a little more leeway and knows it. He is walking a fine line perfectly, using every tool at his disposal. He sincerely believes in his client and is defending him zealously. This doesn’t disturb me at all.
@@bettina868 I’m not saying he can’t do what he’s doing…nor that he’s a fool. I’m just saying it’s frustrating that he’s dipping into evidence which is better reserved for testimony, and multiple objections are being sustained by the judge. To each their own…I just found it frustrating 🤷♀️
Also, in this particular case, I do believe that he believes in his clients innocence authentically…just not a fan of his method for opening statement.
Lol yep & you’ve got people who know nothing about law saying oMG hE’s sO gOOd 🤡
Florida prosecutors are making a name for themselves. Hopefully this case will turn out like the Travis Rudolph case. Sure this guy had a moral duty to go in but as much as a coward as I think he is I don't believe it's criminal.
U either create a legal duty or you get more uvalde situations.
This states prosecution office might have to much money if they are chasing after weak cases like this to fill their days.
The sad this is that they actually have a ton of cases sitting in limbo waiting for trial while they waste thousand of hours of investigators, prosecutors, and support staff to bring something like this to trial.
@@ryanfraser167 There is a duty already…but not immediately being able to localized gunfire coming from 3/4 of a football field away. In less than 5 minutes s while trying to give information and getting wrong information given to you.
If you want to charge the Uvalde officers then do that…but this is not Uvalde.
How do they honestly expect that this man could have searched 3 floors of a massive building in less than 5 minutes
@@ryanfraser167 maybe there should be a legal duty but at the time this happened there wasn't. That's a policy issue not something fixed by charging a guy who didn't have that legal duty at the time of the incident.
He had absolutely no moral duty to go in and get himself killed. He did exactly what he was supposed to but I agree this one is a waste of money like Travis’s was.
The prosecution is on to a real loser with this one. No chance this guy gets found guilty.
🤣🤣🤣
The overwhelming objections from the state make them look guilty. They know they have a weak case. No way this man gets convicted.
Weren't most of the objections sustained?
@@marshapieroni6677 sustained goes in the favor of the objection, "overruled" goes in the favor of the person making the statement that is being objected.
@@ajqueen31 yes. Did I read the statement wrong? They objected. It was sustained.
Sustained tho Lol
@@marshapieroni6677 I think about half were sustained. My point is ,typically even if the defense gets into a gray area during opening, the prosecution is reluctant to object. Defense gets a long leash due to presumption of innocence.
Parts of his opening statement can be unironically be defeated by arguments from Tim Heidecker's case on adult swim. "Yeah, i said i had a good time, but if people start dying around me and choking to death, the good time that happened before that kinda doesnt matter anymore". He is an officer trained to eliminate the threat instead of containing the threat, and yeah, its cool that he was an examplenary officer earlier when things was at peace, but does that really matter if you don't engage and take a defensive position when the real threat pops up? The first officer at Uvalde only had a pistol too, and he charged toward the gunman, actively looking for a good cover location while his three coward teammates with rifles hid on the far side of hallway. In this case, unless he con provide sufficient evidence that it was reasonable for him to say there is a sniper on the roof after he radio'd in shots in the building, he should get charged.
Law Enforcement's DUTY is to put their life in front of a civilian in an active shooter operation. Thats what they are paid to do. If thats not your thing, you shouldnt have that badge. This is the one moment that matters. Those kids cant just get fired when you choose not to engage. Those kids are dead.
It warms my heart to see the comments in this chat. I fully expected everyone to rip Mark and Scott apart but, I am happy to say I was wrong. I feel for the families and I am outraged the Cruiz was able to commit this horrible act with as many red flags as they had. The way the officers handled the shooting wasnt enough because they dodnt have what they needed. They had made the district aware of the issues with the radios, 911 systems, and other issues that handicapped the officers on scene. Maybe more students could have been saved but, its not fair to blame one man and make him the one to be punished. What about the people in charge who knew the short comings of the department for years and choose to do nothing? The sheirf was in the hot seat and gave the mob a name to get them off his back. He could have said we will investigate the response extensively and go from there. Instead he threw his officer under the bus and ruined his life. Im not gling to get angry at the parents for wanting someone to pay but truly Scot did the best he could. He never had a mark against him, he wad officer of the year, no one ever had a bad word to say, and suddenly he turns into a coward? Im sorry i dont think thats what happened and i am pleased to serve pther people in this chat agree with me. I hope one day Scott is able to have a life again. I also hope the parents and families of those killed find some peace. And i hope the evil demon NK has a long miserable life in prison. Death would be too easy for him. He should live a long life of misery and after decades of a miserable existence only then do i think he should answer for his crimes before god.
For those of you who have children take a moment, in fact pause the video. Look over at your child .. now imagine him or her riddled with bullets and dead.
Now decide..
Is this person guilty or not ?
We forget how easy it is to judge when we’re on the outside looking in.
The problem i have with this guy is that he literally just stood there. That’s simply unacceptable to me. Five minutes, 10 minutes, fifteen minutes… doesn’t matter. This idea that because he couldn’t determine where the shots were coming from was just cause for him to not act at all. The point being he didn’t even try to help.
Mark is an amazing attorney no doubt but he also has an unsettling abrasive arrogance to him that i think would serve him better as a prosecutor rather then a defense attorney.
Scot Peterson is the new Gwyneth
This is a waste of time and money!
If it were me, and I had a gun, knew how to use it, and had an idea where the shooting was coming from ( which I believe he did), I would have bloodey well had a go, run into the building and done my best to find and shoot the ********. He was a coward.
Remind me to get Mark’s # if I’m in Florida and the firm who defended Barry Morphew if I’m in Colorado…. Mark Richards if in Wisconsin. It’s fascinating to watch them
In action while
Understanding and analyzing the facts against the law and digging deep
In your own gut. 😅
senseless accusation! the acquittal is already certain!
Scot Peterson is certainly not responsible for what happened at Parkland. But he is responsible for his inaction, his dereliction of duty. It’s what he signed up for. It’s unfortunate that he found himself in that situation, but it is a distinct possibility in that career path.
However, police do not have any legal duty to protect citizens, or even children. I do not imagine he will be found guilty, it will be very surprising if he is.
Frequently cops are told not to do something that will put themselves and their colleagues in danger. Watch a lot of the live chases and body cam footage to see this.
The one aspect that makes this different is that the students were required to be there by truancy type laws. Therefore, its different from the police just protecting random people. In this case there students were in the state's care and custody by force of law.
he is probably more suited for being a cake decorator or a seamstress. just saying
Does anybody know what he’s being charged with? What is he on trial for?
Like seven felonies negligent to children he’s facing 97 years in prison. It’s the public pressure thinking he had a duty to die trying .
Basically they’re saying that he didn’t take appropriate action as an officer during the Parkland shooting and his inaction resulted in more lives lost. Unsure what the actual charges are in legal terms.
@@RcPlayer-tt2vw Felonies? That's crazy. Dude didn't even commit a crime.
Cowardice. Duh
@@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621 exactly I think it’s about scape goat and helping multi million dollar law suits
What about Uvalde?????
Great lawyer. On a sidenote:
The thumbnail reminds me
of Steve Carell / Michael Scott 😂
I know the exact scene you are referring to😂
@@jmc8626
Let me guess: The "no, God, no" scene? 😉
I didnt realize how big this school was till the lawyer pointed it out. How dare they throw him under the bus. Why were no over cops thrown under the bus as well. What about the cops at the other police station that never passed on the info. Or the cop who saw the shooter with the duffle bag. Or the witness who lied and they have proof she lied. When hes found innocent I hope he sues everyone. Disgusting that they are trying to destpry this mans life. To make themselves look good
He did nothing.
Its semi automatic, not automatic.
Anyone know the name of defense attorney?? He looks familiar 🤔
Mark Eiglarsh, he is an excellent attorney, one of the best.
He looks similar in the face to Trumps ex-lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen has had a lot of air-time since he blew the whistle on trump. Possibly familiar to you cos they look kinda similar?? 🤷♀️
At the end of the day you go in sir ! Thats what you get paid for . Where are the shoots comming from ? You go in !!!!
You can tell of all lawyers voice when they start to speek if theire client is guilty or not, it so obveious! Sorry for bad spelling, English is not my motherlanguage, Swedish is.
Your English is better than most Americans!!
Steve Carell??
opening statement 😱😂😂😂😂
I can't believe this deputy was charged with a crime, fine if you want to fire him or make him retire early. If I were on that jury it would be a not guilty verdict
Thank God you're not on that jury
@@Solidus__ He will not be convicted. He had no obligation to enter the school. Quit being a macho loser.
Well u wouldn't have heard all the evidence yet so not sure how u could reach that conclusion...
Called curtesy for his 32 years of service, you expect him not to wait for swat team like every other human being did .
It funny to me because the kind of cop that can and would take down NC has been put to bed permanently. You can’t have it all ways . A political correctness official is never going be a Rambo. They all quit or retired .
15:56 Amber Heard should have called Scot Peterson when her dog stepped on a bee 🐝 😣
Didn't know where the shots were coming from? Follow the bodies.
They couldn’t tell where the shots were coming from, nor could he see the kids coming out, nobody pointed him in the direction nor did they have blood on them. He’s going to be found not guilty. Waste of tax payer money and a scapegoat.
@Dude Morris CAG I agree it's a waste. I just can't wrap my head around him just standing there in the alcove.
@@dudemorris7769 Listen to his radio transmissions. He told dispatch where the shots were coming from. He knew!!
Have you ever been in a school? There's like a million hallways, and concrete and echos and kids all over the place. How dare they charge a resource officer when there's like 100 officers in Uvalde who sat around texting while kids were being destroyed down the hall... Literally down the hall just feet from their post.
@@flatdaddio knowing and being able to stop an active shooter while you're alone and there's hundreds of lives to protect.... We've been seeing school shootings on TV for over 20 years. You tell me when a sole hero ran in and saved the day? I'll show you a hundred times that dozens of officers sat back scared. Uvalde. Almost 100 cops did nothing for an hour. And they had tactical gear! This dude had what? A handgun? A taser? He was supposed to save everyone alone apparently.
The other people to blame,,,, his parents for allowing him to have a gun, the people he moved in with, for allowing him to have a gun and a key/access to it, the school head, for not acting on the teachers reporting this childs behaviour over and over, and society, for glorifying bloodshed and violence on TV, films and computer games....aswell as this security officer.
Yeah… that’s sustained. 😀
Who is the group of three men that the camera keeps pointing to in the audience. 18:20 to 18:30
2 of them are the parents of students killed.
Thrown under the bus !
He knew the shooter had AR 15 assault rifle and didnt want to take that risk with only small handgun. I believe if shooter was only armed with small handgun he would have acted differently. Just my opinion.
@@ryanfraser167 an experienced officer with 30+ years would know if sounds from the gunshots were coming from small firearm or some assault rifle. Of course he knew.
They paid him to protect the kids and when the time comes to protect them he chicken out
I just ask that you hear all the facts of this case before making your final opinion. This is not as cut & dry as you think. There was confusing, incomplete & inaccurate information being relayed to Scot Peterson. Being told tut shooter is outside, that there could be more than one shooter. He started off of the complete opposite side of the campus that the shooting took place. And EVEN IF he had all of the correct information from the get go, he, as one officer could not have checked the first floor, second floor & then finally the third floor of the 1200 building in the 6 minutes that the shooting took place in. It took a complete SWAT team 35 min to do it- with multiple people.
Your average school cop does not expect a school shooter. That's a nightmare situation for any school cop and most aren't armed enough to take down a school shooter who prepared for stealth and have a far more powerful gun. Do people really expect this guy to have sacrificed and get killed just because his school was targeted? The cop committed no crime.
@@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621 when I watched this today, I just now learned about law enforcement’s rule of “if you’ve been told there’s 1 shooter, treat the situation like there’s 2, if you’ve been told there’s 2, treat it like there’s 3, etc…”. Just that alone, makes me think having ONLY ONE officer in the school is pretty much setting that officer up for failure…
Its the higher ups that want a scape goat
Just watched opening statements. It was awful. Watch this attorney slaughter the prosecutions opening. Bet the prosecution objects during this too.
Mama Mia you can tell his middle is Guido.
he isn't Italian @miklemikemuster
Who is the female prosecutor in the middle?
School officers in this country need to literally treat each and every day like it could be THE day a sicko goes into a school and commits this kind of crime.
This nation is clearly going to choose guns over children and so they need to choose the people with guns who will be prepared to do what must be done and not back down.
Getting in the middle of a fist fight is one thing, but guns cause quicker devastation than fists do, anyone with a brain knows this, and when it really mattered, this coward allowed those babies to fend for themselves
i COMPLETELY agree!!!
#1 cause for child death is guns but republicans will NEVER even regulate guns…
they don’t care abt their kids.
if they did care abt their kids, they wouldn’t vote for trump the p3do &/or anti gun-control.
this man needs to be found GUILTY, GUILTY, & GUILTY!!!!!
If people are going to choose guns to be one of their most important ideals in the US…they are just going to have to accept that people are going to continue to shoot their kids schools up. Cruz did all that in less than 7 minutes. Even the best response probably wasn’t going to have stopped much of it.
There is bad that comes with the good. This is the consequence of prolific gun ownership.