EMS, Deputies Ordered Not to Enter Florida School After Shooting Began

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28 February 2018

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Emergency Medical Service Ordered Not to Enter Florida School in Critical Moments After Shooting Began | 27 Feb 2018 | Three high-ranking Florida officials close to the law enforcement response at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tell Fox News there was a delay in Emergency Medical Service getting into the school in the critical moments after Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire, killing 17 people and wounding at least 14 others. Two separate sources told Fox News some of the EMS teams who requested to enter the school were told they could not. One source said it was the Broward County Sheriff's Office - which was the commanding office - that ordered some of the EMS crews not to go into the school when they requested to enter. "What's going to come out is, in the communications on several circumstances, there was the request to enter...the request was denied from Broward County," a Florida official told Fox News. [And, under normal circumstances people would be *prosecuted* for complicity in the homicides for such decisions. But, alas, alack...] 

Broward Deputies Reportedly Ordered Not to Enter School During Shooting --They also 'lost communication' during the shooting | 26 Feb 2018 | ...Laura Ingraham later broke another exclusive report that may shed light as to why several armed deputies were waiting outside during the shooting. According to "sources near the Broward County Sheriff's Office," the deputies who arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were told not to enter the building "unless their body cameras were turned on." Ingraham went on to report that the deputies didn't even have body cameras at all. [Ergo, they could *never* enter, as they had no cameras and therefore could never comply with the directive.] They also lost "radio communication" during the shooting. The source further told The Ingraham Angle that they also lost radio communication during the Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting last year. And on top of that, some of the radio communications from the shooting either are "missing" or "weren't recorded." [Of course.] 

'He never went in': Armed officer did not confront Florida school gunman | 23 Feb 2018 | An armed officer who was on duty at the Florida high school where 17 people were killed failed to confront the gunman during the attack, a local sheriff has said. Scot Peterson was the armed sheriff's deputy assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the only law enforcement officer present during the six-minute rampage last Wednesday, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said. Mr Peterson's actions were caught on video during the massacre, and he has now resigned after being suspended without pay and placed under investigation. 

Sheriff: Armed officer at Stoneman Douglas 'never went in' during shooting | 22 Feb 2018 | Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has announced that the school resource deputy for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has resigned amid an internal investigation. Israel made the announcement during a news conference Thursday afternoon. According to Israel, Deputy Scot Peterson was on campus at the time of the shooting that killed 17 people. However, Israel said video showed the deputy arriving at the west side of the building where the shooting took place. Peterson then took up a position but "never went in." The sheriff said the revelation made him "devastated, sick to my stomach."

Security footage from school massacre scene was on 26-minute delay | 22 Feb 2018 | Surveillance footage from the Florida high school where 17 people were gunned down was not shown live, as responding officers initially thought. It was on a 26-minute delay -- leading police to brace for a shootout when the gunman was actually long gone, Coral Springs police Capt. Brad McKeone said. "Nobody told us," Coral Springs police Chief Tony Pustizzi told the Sun Sentinel, which first reported the tape delay.

Teacher grazed by Parkland shooter's bullet: 'Shooter was in full metal garb, helmet, face mask, bulletproof armor, shooting a rifle I've never seen before' | 24 Feb 2018 | "I suddenly saw the shooter about twenty feet in front of me standing at the end of the hallway actively shooting down the hallway, just a barrage of bullets, and I'm staring at him thinking why are the police here, this is strange because he's in full metal garb, helmet, face mask, bulletproof armor, shooting this rifle that I've never seen before," Lippel told Good Morning America last Wednesday. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher Stacy Lippel was grazed by a hot bullet which left the chamber of the shooter's gun as she closed the door to her classroom after letting a number of students file into what would presumably be safety...Police maintain the suspect Nikolas Cruz arrived via an Uber ride at 2:19 p.m. and initiated his attack within two minutes. If true, that would mean that Cruz would have had to suit up into full metal body armor, put on a full helmet and the whole nine yards, all the while assembling an AR-15 rifle which was purportedly packed into a duffle bag with a number of fully-loaded magazines.

Silence! Twitter, YouTube scrubbing all content and banning all users who question the official narrative on the Florida school shooting | 25 Feb 2018 | A few years from now, looking back on why Twitter collapsed and YouTube was abandoned by every intelligent person, we’ll remember what these totalitarian tech giants did in February, 2018. Starting a few days ago, both Twitter and YouTube began scrubbing all videos and tweets that don’t follow the "official narrative" on the Florida school shooting. Anyone who questions the wisdom of the school students-turned-propagandists -- who were all probably eating Tide pods a week ago -- [LOL!] is immediately banned and silenced. Only one side of this "debate" is allowed to exist: The side that worships the lunatic Left's demands that all law-abiding Americans surrender their self-defense firearms because a group of traumatized school kids were shot at by their own lunatic classmate. The insanity, stupidity and derangement of all this is beyond description.

Sheriff Scott Israel battling calls to resign as blame shifts in wake of Florida high school shooting | 26 Feb 2018 | The vocal sheriff who has criticized everyone from local politicians to the NRA to one of his own officers in the wake of the Florida high school shooting is facing the pressure himself Monday, as calls mount for him to resign amid reports about his department’s alleged incompetence in stopping the gunman. The heat against Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is coming from all angles, including from a survivor of the attack who told Fox News that he "failed to act on so many different levels" and from dozens of state lawmakers who are urging Florida Gov. Rick Scott to suspend him. "Listen, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, O.J. Simpson would still be in the record books," was Israel's bizarre defense Sunday after being asked on CNN if the shooting might not have happened if his department handled things differently.

Florida lawmakers call for suspension of Broward sheriff after Parkland massacre as he defends 'amazing leadership' | 25 Feb 2018 | Republican state lawmakers in Florida called on Sunday for the suspension of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, accusing him of "incompetence and neglect of duty" in the months before the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran and 73 Republican colleagues urged Gov. Rick Scott, R, to suspend Israel, a Democrat who was reelected in 2016.

Hundreds of teachers sign up for free gun training in Ohio | 22 Feb 2018 | An Ohio Sheriff is offering free gun training to teachers in response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead. Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones told FOX Business that the response from teachers and school administrators has been overwhelming. "We thought we'd get 20, 25 signed up. We had 50 within the first hour. We had 100 within two hours, we had three hundred within like five hours. We offered to teachers first, then we start getting calls from a secretary that works in the school, janitors that work in the school," Jones said.

Students in Louisiana thought this math symbol looked like a gun. Police were called. | 22 Feb 2018 | A discussion among students at Oberlin High School in Oberlin, La., about a mathematical symbol led to a police investigation and a search of one of the student's homes, according to the Allen Parish Sheriff's Office. On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign. Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

Letter opened at Virginia's Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall triggers hazmat situation; 11 fall ill --'Several Marines are receiving medical care as a result of this incident' | 27 Feb 2018 | Investigators are looking into an apparent hazmat situation at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Ft. Myer, Virginia, after a number of people began feeling sick after opening a letter, officials said. Arlington Fire, one of the units responding to the scene, said 11 people started feeling ill after the letter was opened in an administration building. Three patients were hospitalized and were said to be in stable condition. According to the U.S. Marines, personnel took "preventative measures" and evacuated people from the building.

White House on lockdown after vehicle strikes security barrier | 23 Feb 2018 | The White House is on lockdown after a passenger vehicle struck a security barrier. The U.S. Secret Service tweets that the vehicle "did not breach the security barrier of the White House complex." No shots were fired during the incident, the Secret Service says.

White House barrier hit by vehicle, Secret Service says | 23 Feb 2018 | A vehicle has struck a barrier outside the White House and a woman has been held, the Secret Service says. "An individual driving a passenger vehicle struck a security barrier near the White House at 17th & E", they tweeted. The driver, an unknown woman, was immediately taken into custody by the Secret Service.

Police respond to 'major incident' following reports of an explosion in Leicester --6 injured, four critical in apparent explosion in Leicester | 25 Feb 2018 | British police responded to a report of an explosion in Leicester, England, that caused a building to collapse along a busy thoroughfare. Six people were hospitalized following the incident, police said, but the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. Leicestershire Police said there was "no indication" that the incident was terror related...BBC Newsreports that four people injured were listed in critical condition.

CDC official who handled Zika and Ebola outbreaks mysteriously missing | 26 Feb 2018 | A respected Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official who worked on the Ebola and Zika outbreaks has disappeared without a trace. He was last seen leaving work midway through the day, saying he was feeling ill. The Harvard-educated epidemiologist and US Navy officer Timothy J. Cunningham, 35, has been missing since February 12, when he left work after saying he was feeling unwell. With two degrees from Harvard, Cunningham worked on the government’s response to the Zika and Ebola crises.

Mystery as CDC employee is reported missing 11 days after he left work sick and vanished | 23 Feb 2018 | A Centers for Disease Control Prevention employee has been reported missing after he left work sick 11 days ago and hasn't been heard from since, police say. Timothy Cunningham, 35, from Chamblee, Georgia, told supervisors at the CDC in he needed to go home early on February 12 because he was sick. But he hasn't been heard from since. His family reported him missing after Cunningham left [his dog, SUV, wallet and phone] behind that he cared about, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. [Was he about to blow the whistle on a man-made pandemic or mention Nagalase in vaccines?]

Seoul defies WTO ruling, vows to keep ban on Japan's Fukushima seafood | 24 Feb 2018 | South Korea vows to maintain its restrictions on Japanese seafood imports and appeal the WTO's ruling against additional radiation tests and bans on fishery products introduced in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. In 2015, Tokyo filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) challenging South Korea's import bans that were introduced on certain fish caught in Japanese waters over fears of radiation following the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima power plant in March 2011. In its official complaint, Japan also challenged additional testing and certification requirements placed by Seoul on Japanese fish caught from eight prefectures near Fukushima.

President Trump to run for re-election in 2020 | 27 Feb 2018 | Donald Trump will stand again for president in 2020 and has chosen his campaign manager. Political strategist Brad Parscale, who was digital director for his successful 2016 White House bid, will head up his team for the next run. The news comes 980 days before election day, earlier than any previous presidents. News of the Trump bid has emerged eight months before November congressional elections that will determine whether his Republican Party will hold on to control of the US Congress.

Brad Parscale, Trump's tech 'genius,' tapped to be campaign manager for president's 2020 re-election bid | 27 Feb 2018 | President Trump has tapped Brad Parscale -- the towering, bearded political consultant described as a "genius" by The Washington Post -- as the man to lead his 2020 re-election bid as campaign manager. Parscale, who had previously worked for the Trump Organization, worked as Trump's top digital operations guru for the 2016 campaign and was credited with possibly tipping the election. Parscale announced Tuesday the appointments of other senior campaign aides, including Michael Glassner as chief operating officer and Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law and son to Eric Trump, as senior adviser.

Kushner's security clearance downgraded per Kelly policy | 27 Feb 2018 | The security clearance of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, has been downgraded, according to two people informed of the decision. Kushner had been operating with an interim clearance at the "top secret/sensitive compartmented information" level for more than a year. Now he is only authorized to access information at the lower "secret" level, according to a White House official and a person familiar with the decision, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.

Democratic intelligence memo released with redactions | 24 Feb 2018 | The House Intelligence Committee on Saturday released a Democratic memo in redacted form that seeks to undercut Republican claims of FBI surveillance abuses. The committee made the Democratic memo public after the White House signed off following negotiations between the FBI and the committee's top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, over what in the document should be redacted. Earlier this month, the White House objected to releasing the memo, saying that sensitive material had to be removed first.

Former Trump adviser pleads guilty in Mueller probe | 23 Feb 2018 | Former Trump campaign adviser Richard Gates pleaded guilty on Friday afternoon as part of a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into [alleged] Russian interference in the election. Gates pleaded guilty to two charges brought against him by Mueller’s team in federal court in Washington, D.C.: one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making a false a statement to the FBI agents investigating Russian interference. He has also agreed to cooperate with Mueller's investigation.

Federal judge rules against challenge to Trump border wall | 27 Feb 2018 | A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against an environmental challenge to President Trump's border wall, delivering a win to the Trump administration in a decision that allows construction plans to move forward. In a 101-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel wrote that both Congress and the executive branch "share responsibilities in protecting the country from terrorists and contraband illegally entering at the borders." The case involved the Trump administration’s ability to ignore environmental laws in the construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The project had been challenged by several environmental groups and the state of California.

A look at transportation safety rules sidelined under Trump | 26 Feb 2018 | President Donald Trump says his administration has ended more unnecessary regulations than any previous administration. In response to his orders, the Transportation Department has withdrawn, repealed, delayed or put on the back burner at least a dozen significant safety rules, according to an Associated Press review of the department's regulatory actions over the past year. Here is a look at some of those regulations...Trains: DOT has repealed a 2015 rule requiring train cars that haul highly flammable crude oil be equipped with advanced braking systems that stop tank cars simultaneously. Most trains use conventional air brakes that stop cars one after the other...

Democrats introduce resolution to reverse FCC net neutrality repeal | 27 Feb 2018 | Congressional Democrats today introduced a long-promised resolution aimed at undoing the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of the net neutrality rules. Spearheaded by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the measure would reverse the FCC's December decision to repeal the Obama-era regulations. It would do so via the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to nix agency rules, within 60 days of their publication in the Federal Register, by a simple majority vote.

California Democrats decline to endorse Feinstein | 25 Feb 2018 | In a sharp rebuke to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democratic Party has declined to endorse the state's own senior senator in her bid for reelection. Riven by conflict between progressive and more moderate forces at the state party's annual convention here, delegates favored Feinstein's progressive rival, state Senate leader Kevin de León, over Feinstein by a vote of 54 percent to 37 percent, according to results announced Sunday. Neither candidate reached the 60 percent threshold required to receive the party endorsement for 2018. But the snubbing of Feinstein led de León to claim a victory for his struggling campaign.

NBC's $12Billion Olympic gamble backfires as viewers go cold on Pyeongchang Winter Games which are rated the worst in the network's history | NBC's 12billion deal to cover the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang may not see the profits the network hopes for, as the games are rated the worst ever in NBC viewership history. This year's Winter Games in South Korea saw the number of views decline by 24 per cent compared to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, within the 18 to 49 years demographic. [Right, since the US-controlled International Olympic Committee fixed it so Russia couldn't participate, no one watched.]

In Pictures: Celebrating International Polar Bear Day! | 27 Feb 2018 | Today we are celebrating International Polar Bear Day, an annual event that raises awareness about the impact climate change has on polar bear populations. These pictures from our archive document the beauty of these largest carnivores that live on land as well as the threats they face.

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