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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Former Parkland SRO Scot Peterson found not guilty after trial

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Former Parkland SRO Scot Peterson found not guilty after trial --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/otcpod1/support

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0:00.0

It has to be some common sense.

0:07.0

There has to be some common sense.

0:23.6

Yes, sir. They have the car stopped intended to branch microphone.

0:26.6

We still don't know who pulled the trigger. Hello everyone and welcome to Police Off the Cuff, Real Crime Stories.

0:54.8

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant, Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

1:00.8

Folks, we all been watching this show, excuse me, this case with Scott Peterson,

1:06.6

the Broward County School Resource Officer,

1:12.8

who was charged with highly,

1:15.8

we feel highly inflated charges

1:18.8

in regards to what can only be described as a failure to act,

1:24.7

an act or acts of omission.

1:28.3

And one of the things that we feel or what we'll interject with two guests who are both

1:34.9

attorneys is that Scott Peterson, the school resource officer, was overcharged, overcharged by, I guess, a prosecutor who was driven by politics, really.

1:53.2

And we say that very softly because 17 people were killed in this incident in Parkland.

2:03.4

And the actual school was a Marjorie Stoneham Douglas High School.

2:08.7

So we can't put it any more harshly than that because, you know, responding to an active shooting incident is an incident or one of the worst things that could ever happen in policing.

2:25.3

But in addition, just think of being a parent and having your kid murdered at the school that they attend.

2:34.4

The school is a place where you're supposed to go and you're supposed to be safe.

2:39.3

But at the same time, this case had national implications.

2:44.6

And that, I mean national implications because what if police officers in any jurisdiction in this great country

2:54.4

or ours could be charged criminally for acts of omission failure to act basically

3:03.2

how would how would that work out and who's going to decide what is an act of omission and what constitutes omission?

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