Of COURSE you have a legal obligation....but even more.....

I have GOT to think that this court filing was simply a perfunctory act….but hey, this is the US, and it is the courts, and you just never know…..

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-finds-former-deputy-scot-peterson-had-a-legal-duty-to-protect-stoneman-douglas-students-and-staff/ar-BBQR7CH?ocid=ientp

So, Deputy Scott Peterson, the armed deputy on duty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on the day that Nikolas Cruz went ballistic, and who HID while Cruz killed 17 people, petitioned the judge in a lawsuit brought by one or more of the parents, to rule that he, Peterson, had no legal duty to protect the students during the crazy persons’ rampage.

WTF?

I mean, seriously……what the hell could his thought process have been?

Dude….YOU are a deputy sheriff, albeit one of a crooked sheriffs department, but nonetheless, you are a sworn law enforcement officer.  THAT means that you carry a weapon….that is what “sworn” implies.  And I get it, the weapon is primarily for your protection BUT….it is also to be used for the protection of civilians in harms way.  As part of protecting people in harms way that means you have to put yourself in harms way….you know…..do something honorable, risk your life for a greater good.

In this case, the lives of 17 innocents.

You RUN to the sound of the guns…..you do not hide.

Of COURSE you have a legal obligation to protect those people….if there was no obligation then that school clearly did not need your ass hanging out, oogling high school kids.

And my hat is off to the judge who apparently gave this motion the attention it was due, that it warranted.  And I don’t say that lightly; you never know with our courts and judges mistaking their role with that of a legislator.  If the judge had ruled that the armed deputy, school resource officer, WHOSE JOB is to protect the safety of the school occupants and the security of the grounds, had no legal obligation to do just that, I would have been no more surprised than if New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE (sorry, I got off track there…..that is a different story).  But this time at least, that judge ruled correctly.

Listen, I am nobody’s hero, not to my kids, not to my family, not to me….but a fundamental of being a man is that when the shit hits the fan, you GO TO THE FAN.  You march, you run, you fly, you ride TO the sound of trouble, to the sound of the guns.  It is what men do…..and if you are an armed law enforcement officer…..you have the moral and legal obligation to do that very thing.  I know personally but a handful of law enforcement officers well…..and to the man, I cannot imagine a one of them even THINKING that their role was anything other than a moral, legal, and personal obligation to protect.

Former deputy Petersen…..he only diminishes himself more by asking to be excused for not doing his duty.