(07-02-2023, 03:26 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: MAUREEN CALLAHAN: The coward Parkland deputy and why America is now devoid of valor (msn.com)

...Just look to police and armed security guards, no longer expected, as inherent in their very job description, to put their own lives at risk in order to save young innocents.

What must our nation look like to the world?

In Peterson’s case, we have a 6’4”, 250-pound former sheriff’s deputy, with over three decades in law enforcement, who stood by and did nothing as a lone gunman shot up Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Fourteen students and three adults were killed. Seventeen more were injured. Video shows Peterson hiding for 40 minutes, long after the shooter was apprehended.

On Thursday, a jury found him not guilty of all charges, including seven counts of child neglect...



I would say the Nashville and Allen, Tx mass shooting responses argue against this. 

These people (this clown and the Uvalde bubbas) may have avoided judgement in the court of law, but their reputations are forever destroyed.