WATCH LIVE: Parkland Shooting School Officer On Trial - FL v. Scot Peterson - Day One
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Former school resource officer Scot Peterson is on trial for allegedly not following active shooter training during the Parkland school massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Peterson - dubbed “The Broward Coward” - has been criticized for his actions after surveillance video showed him remaining outside the high school while shots were fired inside killing 14 students and threes staff members. Peterson faces seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence, and one count of perjury. He and his defense team believe the once “dedicated officer” did nothing wrong.
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All the Uvalde Cops should be put on trial
exactly they were 20 people and knew exactly where ramos was they even talking with him but did nothing. and here an individual is to be punished who had no idea who or where the perpetrator was
Uvalde Police Dept: Kids died, we hide.
Yes definitely.
At least we have a Judge who is on it and paying attention, not like the Travis Rudolph trial.
I bet your one of the people that was for defunding the police by defunding the police crime and mass shootings will continue to go up the less training the less proper equipment they have the less useful the police will be so if the country wants stuff to end then refund the police
I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many sustained objections for an opening argument in my life
If I ever need an attorney, I want this defense attorney!!
The audio from the phone is awful. Those poor kids.
so wrong. never should have charged him
How many times.
How many times will we and the court have to witness the brutal murder of these children. Listening to the screams after the first volley of gunfire was enough to make me feel sick and stop watching. I cannot imagine the families, friends, and first responders who have to continually relive this experience.
I've been thinking that people who defend easy access to semi-automatic rifles should get the "oh so you support killing students" treatment, but I'm usually too civil for that. Calling those weapons "assault rifles" is appropriate because they're very rarely used by civilians for self-defense. They're too bulky for daily carry, but they're just portable enough for a shooter to get close to their intended targets and still have the element of surprise when they open fire. It's insane that we don't treat semi-automatic rifles differently from handguns, requiring extensive background checks and advanced weapons training certification before allowing someone to purchase such a high powered, high capacity, high rate-of-fire firearm.
But that's just me being a responsible gun owner who actually understands and respects firearms and can tell the difference between different classes of firearms, while still fully embracing the Second Amendment giving us the right to defend ourselves, hunt, and shoot recreationally, and even have a decent chance of defending against foreign invaders or tyrants. I must be some kind of leftist for even suggesting common sense gun control.
Until we get Justice for the kids or you going to listen to more other new kids over and over because these useless cops aren’t doing their job while hiding behind their uniforms for decades and eating your taxes money and get immunity from the laws against them the cop union
@@Derpherppington Justin? Btw, only one officer is on trial here. Hope you never need one.
Until everyone who needs to be charged with their deaths is charged
@@lesleyhughes3174ypo. Justice . Yes he’s the one that have 32 years of trainings, experience, armed and always ready, yearly trainings specifically for active shooter, was first and the only one there to keep the school safe, he have the weapons to neutralize the active shooter. He didn’t even try to find the shooter. And claimed he’s old and deaf but isn’t old or death for those decades of paychecks though .
The way Daniel’s daddy waits for her & walks off with her hugging each other not taking 4 granted 1 moment. I wish all parents from that day had this opportunity. ❤
Yea, they have a perfect view of a outside of a building? What does that have to do with anything happening inside? They don’t know where the shooter is?
Any new moms with the last name of Peterson should really stop naming their boys Scott.
I'm betting the 'Double T' Scott is thrilled the lights off him a minute.
@@ThatLadyInDallas2024 Agreed! 😆
Yes! Every time they say the defendant's name, that's the first thing I think of. Off topic, but slightly related...I recently watched an interview with a man who survived the Holocaust. His parents had named him Adolf. After the war, one of the first things he did was have his name legally changed.
Shame on you camera operator! Stop zooming in on family during audio. It's horrible and disgusting. This is not TMZ! Have some respect!
My heart will forever break for this case all the victims and their poor families💔 having to relive those audios and be in the courtroom once again must be so freaking hard. RIP to the 17 beautiful souls lost and may their families heal and find peace🙏🏼🧡
Nah, they've become bloodthirsty monsters attacking innocent people like Officer Peterson and playing the ghetto lottery. Not all, of course, just some of the families.
Why wasnt school officials charged for NC being able to enter the school with a weapon.
Poor parents. It feels torturous.
I feel lucky to have gone to school when it was a big day at school to see a policeman. We had an assembly, we got to look at the car, see how the sirens worked. Innocent days.
Right, so true
same here. We just had a security guard in case someone tried to skip out during lunch or if fight broke out. That was it
Me too! What year did you graduate?
@@annal.6018 1989 :)
1982 here, all of the boys who were hunter's (there were a lot) had a gun rack behind their heads in their pickup trucks. They had at least 2 long guns! Most had a 22 rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun!
No body would have ever brought them in! Why, you might ask?? They didn't want to lose them because some were heirlooms! If someone brought anything bad into the school, it was a Buck Knife! Those, they got confiscated even if it was in your pocket and you forgot! You got it back at the end of the day, or if it was a 2nd offense, the principal gave it to one of your parents with a stearn matter of fact warning.
We had no school shootings!
ACTUAL START TIME…1 hour 6 minutes
Good looking out!
You're the real MVP. Thank you.
Thank You
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Just here to say I LOVE THIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY ❤️ He’s absolutely right!!
CONTINUED PRAYERS FOR THESE FAMILIES🙏🏼🥰 I can’t imagine living this nightmare over & over like they’ve had to do
I have no clue how these young adults are dealing with the trauma they faced that day… or how the families have held it together so well. They are amazing! I applaud them for their strength!
Sadly- some of them haven’t been able to cope with it…there have been 2 deaths of students who experienced the trauma….self inflicted deaths….Cruz killed way more than 17 that day….
@@jakeplumber1373 what?
The Uvalde police should be tried next
No trial eye for an eye. That all sat outside for 77 minutes while kids were begging for help and dying. They were all cowards!
2:05:04 death glare from defense attorney for all the objections lol
Heehee
Why sell guns to kids in the first place? Insane !
Cruz? He was an adult.
I’m from the Uk and I am struggling to understand why this man is being charged here. The Defence attorney was quite something on his opening statements and I feel he probably has something there about people in power protecting themselves by blaming someone else. That I can understand.
Yup 🇺🇲 oddball politics. 😮
There trying to blame him like he asked the shooter to go do what he did
The defense opening statement yelling. That doesn't make me want to listen.
Because just like your country, we have too many ignorant, lazy, egotistical people that assume they know everything when they dont know anything. They are so easy to manipulate so people like this cop have to be sacrificed to appease the ignorant masses while deflecting from real problems.
As an American- 1st I am ashamed we are even having a trial about a school shooting to begin with, but this man NEEDS to be held accountable for his inaction that day. He stood by while children were massacred because he was too afraid to do his job-WHILE HOLDING A GUN- while teachers who didn’t have a weapon ran inside that building to protect those kids. I completely understand the charges, and why they were brought. If it were your children in that school being massacred and they could have been saved by his actions wouldn’t you also want him to be held accountable for hiding behind a lamp post while listening to your kid scream for help and others screams of agony and fear? It’s now up to a jury to determine whether he is liable for his disgusting inaction. Let’s hope this jury does the right thing, unlike the jury for the shooter.
He didn't even try to find out where he was
The Prosecutor opening was sometimes very confusing and waay to long. east west north ..... he should tell more precise and shorter and concise. he misspeaks so much. not good opening for the prosecution
Accusing a fifty five year old school police officer of criminal conduct arising out of an active shooter incident without backup which in any other jurisdiction would have been a Swat call isn't Malfeasance.
Idk maybe the jury should hear the shoots at same decibel sound he would have heard at that time - ( maybe what side if the room it is coming from)
Why is he on trial?!
Why are they making parents relive this again
Please everyone, be aware- at about 2:16:00 a video with Cruz shooting & people screaming is played. It was jarring.
Video?
Judge should have never let those audio tapes in. Predicicial
Extremely! With no probative value. he didn't even know what building it was while that video was being recorded. I was shocked at that ruling - grounds for appeal
Prejudicial.
Ivy Schamis is such a lovely woman and teacher! I’m in awe of her testimony from this trial and from last years trial. She cares so much🤍
Heartbraking hearing those recordings again 😢
Heartbreaking*, yes!
If this solo man is guilty as charged then what about the group of fulltime officers in Uvalde? Let Parkland go for the love of God and learn from it. Culprit is in jail for life. Leave this single man alone to ponder his decisions he made with God and his conscience going forward. Isn't that enough?? In football this is what they call piling on. Are we going to have to hear from these parents again too?🤷♀🤷♀🤷♂🤷♂
People need to be held responsible for the choices they make. I absolutely think the Uvalde officers who did nothing and especially the ones who held back or handcuffed the parents who were desperate to get to their children, should be held accountable for failing so terribly at their jobs.
AFTER READING YR COMMENT I'VE GONE BACK & DELETED THE COMMENT THAT WROTE & FEELING SOMEWHAT ASHAMED THAT I THOUGHT THE THINGS I DID.
THANK YOU FOR SPEAKING YR TRUTH & FOR TEACHING ME A LESSON. ✌🏼🙂
Agree. The US gov't and the school district has paid out millions to these families in damages..to the extent that they are now multi-millionaires. The murderer of their children will rot in prison. How much is enough?
@@kimberlysmith7625 I’m pretty sure it’s not about the money. Nothing can ever be “enough” when your child/loved one has been viscously slaughtered. I’m sure most of us would want everyone who failed them in a situation like this to be held accountable.
Simple the man took an oath to serve and protect and was a total coward and the Texas officers too all of them. They are no better than the criminals committing these crimes police officers are paid to accept the risks running away means they are cowards and should have never accepted the position in the first place not punishing that behavior says that we allow them to be useless when they are called to serve
That was the most boring and dull opening statement from the prosecution
The 4:58:29 mark is simply heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. ❤️🩹
How can anyone recover from that? To hear the kids begging for help, to hear those in pain….and others perhaps taking their last breath - my Lord, may time bring each of them healing & resolve. 🤲🏽
That was absolutely traumatic
@@CherrrrBear 💔
Shame on the Law and Crime camera operator for focusing on the families of the victims while the recording of the shooting was played. What a tosser.
Which is exactly why the prosecution wanted to play it. Overly prejudicial IMO.
Your time stamp shows the ceiling with no sound. What is the correct time stamp you’re talking about?
Why in the world would anyone want to be a cop
This guy got paid a hefty salary to sit around and do nothing in an active shooter situation, no accountability. That type of person is who wants to be a cop.
He should have entered the building a bit more, but if he goes down, then those 85 officers in Uvalde who were wearing 95 pounds of tactical gear with high powered weapons and hung out for an hour, should go down with him. Same thing for the very few armed forces who hide around the corner of a building when they are in theatre.
If officers are unwilling to approach and remove a threat on account of the types of guns that are legally obtained, maybe don't sell those kinds of guns???? The guns used where you can only identify your child through their shoes should NOT be available!!!
What happened to the opening statements?
Was wondering that too. I had it paused at the beginning of the defense's opening for about a 1/2 hr and then it was gone?
I believe they are on their own separate video clips in the playlist for this trial
The prosecution's opening statement is awful. I can barely follow what he is saying.
This case exemplifies how sociopaths in positions of power deflect and blame those that cannot fight back. This is gaslighting on a public level. One may argue that Peterson's positioning (one of visual containment) was optimal given the brevity of the assault and uncertainty as to the exact position and number of gunmen in the moment. This was a tragedy with one villain, Nik Cruz.
Directing hostility towards one of the few people on Earth who has been tasked with protecting students for chump change for a long time is idiotic. If this case is being driven by the families of victims, please understand that you have been politically gaslighted. There are many correctable issues that contributed to this event. Peterson was not the problem. He did not have the benefit of clarity that hindsight brings, and in my opinion positioned himself optimally. If he were a coward, he would have run away. The real cowards are the ding bats pushing this case. The lack of empathy and victim blaming is disgusting. This should have never been brought before a Grand Jury.
Vote anyone out of office that has supported the vilification and prosecution of Mr. Peterson!
👏👏👏 yes!! Exactly ❤
If I was trained and had a gun, I would be going from building to building to find the shooter, regardless if I was running around like a headless chicken..my first priority would be go and search!, he had knowledge something was occurring in the 12th building. I would have went into that building straight away and would see the carnage. He stood in one position while school monitors without guns ran towards the gun fire to help.
There is no excuse here...if he even went into a wrong building searching for the shooter he would have empathy..but he stood in one position while teachers and students were murdered!
@Innefable Gump, says the person not in his position! Get off your high horse. Nauseating comment. Aren’t you brave behind your keyboard. 😂 Let’s see you in action not words. Read the first comment. Perfectly laid out and logical. This was a horrific tragedy for everyone. Shooter is living life, writing his book whilst we make this person a scapegoat. Someone has to pay right? Should have been Cruz.
@@IneffableGump Peterson's in the moment tactics were satisfactory but he alone could not have made enough of a difference to change this horrendous outcome. His vantage point was the only intel that ANYONE had. Perhaps in the movies an ominscient character with superpowers could've made a bigger difference. But in those crucial 5 minutes Peterson secured a line of site of the East egress of the building (closest to the parking lot and street that Cruz came from). Peterson simultaneously maintained a visual line of sight of the entire walkway South of the 1200 and 1300 buildings. His role was to protect the whole school to the best of his ability, not guess wrong and sacrifice his advantageous position.
Peterson is one of the victims. The hostility directed towards him should be 100% directed towards the murderer and nobody else.
It is not right to belittle, castigate and publicly humiliate a person who did his job to the best of his training and abilities. Even if we are under the delusion that we would have done much better.
I agree with you that Mr Peterson is not guilty of any crime.
What could he do besides trying to understand what was going on?
However I disagree in the idea that Nikolas Cruz is the only guilty party. Cruz should have never been sent to that school, ever. His mental health issues are so well documentated it’s beyond reason. Worst. Gun laws absolutely are responsible for a mass shootings. Nowhere else do they occur like in the US. Why anybody would be able to get a gun like this? Certainly they are not good for hunting, another barbaric hobbie btw… Nowhere else do kids have to receive training for mass shootings at school. At most they are trained what to do if/ when there is some earthquake.
I don’t even think police as a whole is guilty. The idea that having police with guns can prevent a mass shooting is guilty.
This so sad and unnecessary we don’t know how chaotic this was how he felt poor guy
He could have helped save a life.!!!!!
He had one job and he was a coward and failed. Those children needed him and he hid. He signed up to put his life on the line as his job and those children did not.
I am watching this and i think the audio is poor streamed it to my tv snd had to turn the volume up to level 30 to even hear. Then the videos had to turn it all the way down.
Jeez! Can’t they give the lawyers lapel mics? Can hardly hear him
Every other trial is like that! And, I admit this is a bit petty, but WHY is there always someone coughing who is near a microphone? I get that people may be sick, but there are effective, non-narcotic prescription medications that suppress a cough. Run to the doctor or urgent care and I'm sure they'd give you a prescription!
So many people believe that the shots were coming from outside. He wanted to close the school so the shooter wouldn't get inside. The prosecutors are using him as a scapegoat. It was a tragedy but he shouldn't pay for it.
You need to google and read about everything he did wrong then you won’t be defending him. Although several people didn’t help either. He was the only one with a gun. Cruz had been out of the building and gone to Walmart and Peterson was still telling people he was inside and that delayed help.
@@sharonbentley8612 we don't need to google anything...this trial will show what we need to know!!!! To google someone doesn't mean everything is true.
Did he close the school?
I watched the Cruz trial, Cruz is a heartless monster that wanted to destroy as many lives as possible. I guess this officer is just another of his victims. I don’t know much about him, but if it weren’t for Nicolas Cruz this man would be able to live his life in peace.
I like this defense attorney. He shows more passion and conviction than the prosecutor did. Fiesty.
Compassion is not part of the legal system with presenting evidence. IMO that belongs with sentencing. Emotion is not needed when you present facts EDIT: he stated his statements yelling. That's not an effective way to present. It would be off-putting for me as a juror. It made me uncomfortable.
@spacenerd9499 I have to agree with you. I'm at work where I'm listening to the defense opening and if I was on the jury he would have offended me.
That's not passion. It's desperation.
@@ricladouceur6202 the fact that he keeps being told what he’s not supposed to talk about in opening arguments says a lot
@@spacenerd9499 and literally got in the jury box and had to be told to get out of it 😂
I agree with the defence that those first audios were prejudicial and completely unnecessary.
Stop trying to blame random individuals for a systemic failure to avoid selling highly dangerous weapons to deranged weirdos
I agree with your first statement & the selling of high powered assault rifles needs to STOP (& my son legally owns an AR) but… "stronger gun laws" isn’t going to do anything. 1- If you buy a gun today… a regular ol' gun. Want it for protection. Pass all the background checks with flying colors. Get your CCW, take classes, etc etc. Eight months from now you have a nervous break down & go on a rampage. What then? We can’t monitor every gun owners mental health every single month for the rest of the gun owning days. 2- They need to use that "revising gun laws" money to get the guns off the streets!! Criminals don’t care about the LAW!! And seeing these KIDS - teenagers! - out here with guns is heart wrenching! These poor parents & families… NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS HAPPENING… ANY WHERE!!🥺😖😢💔
@@SimplyLolly What does high powered assault rifles mean? Nothing you said really makes sense. You wrote a lot but said nothing of substance. It is like you are a leftist pretending to be a moderate trying to push gun laws while saying things like criminals dont care... Either go learn about what you are talking about or just stop talking about it because it is obvious you dont have a well thought out position on the second amendment.
I agree that this totally a systemic problem. Nobody should have access to assault rifles.
The parents from the Michigan school shooter, didn’t have mental health issues… some people snap… The permanent flow of mass shootings is exclusively in the US. I really don’t get the idea that the US second amendment is somehow more important than the right to be alive, the right of every kid to feel safe…
@@javieratoledo9262 my thoughts exactly ❤️
What do you mean? They shouldn’t be held accountable because the US system is garbage?
This poor Man could not have stopped what happened. This is totally political Period!!!!
Um yes he could have he was armed and security for the school!
He was supposed to be the "Good Guy With A Gun" we hear so much about.
Bull!!! He's a coward.
@@vincentranger09, how would you have stopped a shooter if you couldn't tell where the shots were coming from?
I hate this argument. It's not about whether or not he could successfully stop the shooting and/or save anyone. It's about making an ATTEMPT to do so. He didn't even try. That's what this is about. Doing SOMETHING instead of NOTHING.
I feel sorry for this man. I am sorry for the victims and the families. It was a horrible day in history that was created and executed by one man and that man is in jail. Mabey he panicked. I have not watched the trial But, this man looks like he is going through it. May the truth prevail.
If this was an elementary with one of your 6- 12 year-olds present, would you feel differently???
I don't see the outrage like I have in the past when it's an elementary school.
@@BH-1964 if you watch this trial for next few days you will see that Peterson has been portrayed wrongly in the media. so much evidence in his favor
I hate that everybody has to re live it all.
The screaming and moaning from the poor victims is heartbreaking and so hard to listen to. 4:23:00 (Edit: The video was edited for time, so I had to adjust my original time stamp in my comment.)
I couldn’t take it. 💔💔
Extremely heartbreaking and more importantly it had no probative value and calls for grounds for appeal. Defendant didn't even know what building it was while that video was being recorded, so by law it is just not relevant for the case.
Not guilty. Stop this circus.
Did u watch the whole trial yet??? No so don't be so quick to say that
This is what happens when the standards are so terribly low and you get jobs because of who you know rather than your skill set & capabilities!! You had a 60 year old, out of shape security guard that probably hasn’t done tactical training in 20 years….big shocker he ran and hid & didn’t confront the shooter!! Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
big shocker that someone ignorant like you jumps to a conclusion without knowing the facts. Keep making things up that you dont know just to make yourself feel smart. Either you have to admit you are ignorant or admit that you are calling half of the survivors and parents liars. Get smarter. Go read up on why we have trials.
You should wait to hear the evidence.
This is the most foolish and biased comment I've encountered. Bravo for your ignorance.
Then the security guards should be in jail to
The prosecutor is basically doing a recap of the entire shooting. You really have to watch the whole Parkland trial to get a real feel of the intensity of what happened and also how fast it all happened. He is talking real slow to make it seem like Cruz was super slow moving around and aiming at targets. I think he is doing it deliberately to make it seem like Peterson had a ton of time to go in there and "get him". To me it should be clear that with all that commotion, gunshots, dust from ceilings etc, that Peterson would not have been able to see Cruz and that shooting randomly down a hallway wouldn't work and that with the firepower that Cruz had (he was able to shoot Hixon and other students from across the hallways) that Peterson would never even have gotten a chance to be close enough to make any difference. In all honesty he would just have been killed right away. Cruz was an experienced shooter, won awards in his ROTC classes, had a high powered weapon with multiple rounds. I cannot believe the Judge is allowing the audio from first floor. Peterson wasn’t even near the building yet when that happen.
Why he on trail ?
The laughing and joking from the audience is disgusting prior to the arrival of the judge. Really?
The defendant was laughing with his lawyer when the victim was snapping up his pants. That doesn’t make him guilty, but I thought it was inappropriate
Glad i am not a juror. He called code red. I believe the officer. Other officer knew he was on 3rd floor stayed on 1st floor clearing rooms. Why are they not criminally charged?
None of them should be charged. They all went into this blindly, over a firecracker complaint. This all escalated within a six minute timeframe from the moment Cruz stepped out of the Uber. It took a twelve-person swat team over half an hour to clear one building. Officers are humans and definitely trained for these kinds of situations, but they're not magicians.
Canadian here. Don’t know much about this case. Is “school resource officer” just a glorified name for security officer, or does he carry a gun?
He had a gun.
SRO is a sworn police officer, but instead of patrol or something else, their primary duty is the school. usually more senior officers do it as its generally pretty laid back. some places like new york city and miami have their own school police departments, in most areas though its like I said, where an officer is assigned there for their normal duty.
No he is a police officer who is assigned to the school they have guns & patrol cars at least they did in 2005 when I graduated.
A lot of people screaming coward when they know they would be scared sh*tless. Keyboard warriors unite!
I would be scared yes. however I'm not in the profession of protecting and saving lives either
He FAILED to call a code red. He failed at the simple basics of his job. Kids and teachers were braver than him
Uvalde should follow suit n hold everyone of those worthless cowardly cops accountable for one of the most costly disgraceful failures ever! 😠 The epitome of incompetence - Uvalde pd
Texas follows Supreme Court rulings and the Supreme Court says that nobody is required to die for anyone else unless they wish it.
The worst audio of all time
So, which parents are there? I saw Max Schachter and Lori Alhadeff.
@Shauna thank you. I saw a blonde woman but I just couldn't remember who she was.
@@bridgetbinion8494 wasn’t that meadows mom
@shauna345 I deleted my comment, after further review I don’t think that is them.
@@JesusIsMyLord24 I'm not sure. I saw Gena Hoyer.
I hope he's found not guilty. So many variables during this chaotic scene. Many previous mass shooting episodes show police arriving and forming up into 2 and 4 person teams. Not one cop rushing in.
I’m waiting for state of Texas vs uvalde police station, bunch of cowards!!!
I think prosecution's point is, even if he could not have known where the shooter was to engage and attempt to eliminate the threat, why did he not make any attempts to render aid? Not one child? Could've helped at least one victim. Especially the ones who were still alive and slowly bleeding out. Where was he then?
I understand the prosecutions intent - HOWEVER, the defense counsel throughout their ~55 minutes of opening, they didnt object. Makes the trial more fustrating with sidebars.
The defense lawyer looks like an actor, but cant remember his name .
Did they use a 90s webcam to capture the audio?
As a school police officer there is no greater duty than to keep the kids safe. I don't know all the circumstances to this case but law enforcement are now taught to make a quick entry to prevent mass causalities .. in this regard it seems he failed in his duty. But let's see what evidence is presented throughout this trial ..
u gotta see the cruz trial from the beginning. the whole thing was an intense trial
I’ve only just started watching this but he had absolutely no business being the one armed person on campus if he didn’t have the balls to run in!! Him and all everybody involved in Uvalde need to just be shipped off to some deserted island and left there
That COWARD never even flinched when they played the video of the kids being shot while his attorney almost lost it!!! He didn't CARE THEN and he cares even LESS now!!! He's a total waste of oxygen imho!!! 🙄
They have heard it many times already and the defense lawyer is a drama queen.
This is heart breaking 😢that cold hearted monster is locked up for life should b death penalty he should have got my point here is why is this man being made a scape goat he wasn't the only one there
Yep the whole local BSO system is to blame, the FBI is to blame, also much of the people in charge of MSD and its school district. But remember, he also told the other cops arriving onto the scene to stay away from going into the building. REMEMBER THAT. SHOWS ME HE HAD NO INTENTION OF SAVING THOSE CHILDREN’S LIVES!
THIS SHOOTING COULD HAVE BEEN MITIGATED IF HE JUST WENT IN AND CONFRONTED THE SHOOTER WHEN HE HEARD THE SHOTS!!!
14:57 ~ Sound & housekeeping matters starts here (nothing noteworthy)
25:50 ~ Court begins here
The extremely loud sounds of the shooting was terrible !!!!!!!! So loud. Poor children in the middle of it. Terrifying only listen to it here.
The voice record and video is pretty bad quality. I don’t mind the hours long ramblings but I couldn’t hear them even with volume all they way up. I had to find a browser extension to boost the volume higher
When does this start
This guy doesn't need to be on trial
That’s all I keep hearing from the defense is that this cop knew that there was a SHOOTER in either the 1200 or 1300 building (either way an active shooter) and made a conscious decision NOT to go in either building OR ANY BUILDING to check it out and neutralize the threat. I also keep hearing he was at the 1200 building and if only he walked in the door he would have seen children down and KNEW where the shooter was. There are about 1000 scenarios he could have actually helped the situation instead of hiding and protecting ONLY HIMSELF. 🙄 no matter how he spins it- sounds like a lot of inaction due to fear from a 30 year trained veteran.
Except he didn’t hide… He called the code red. Nobody knew where the shooting was happening while Cruz was there. He didn’t receive info from the calls students inside the building were making.
The only way to prevent this would be to take the guns out.
@lauren, completely disagree. How many others were there that could have helped?? It’s a sad situation & you don’t just start a shoot out before knowing exactly what’s going on..in any scenario, bottom line is Cruz did this. My question to you: If I carry, and there was a shooting in my business, am I cupababule for not engaging?
@@billhadley2249 you are not a police officer though. Different expectations and duties. This is what they are HIRED to do. He didn’t.
If I could save one child I would walk into certain death unarmed, and this waste of humanity was armed and trained, and not only that it was his JOB to protect those kids. Why hasn't be swallowed his own gun yet? If he had any dignity or shred of honor left at all he would. Hope he does
I feel sick to my stomach knowing Nikolas Cruz is sitting in jail, receiving fan mail and money from these sickos, and seeing his family.
He is a monster and usually i am against the death penalty but it clearly was deserved in this case and seeing the heartbroken parents let down by the jury broke my heart. I have not heard all the evidence in this case but without a doubt, Cruz managed to ruin hundreds of lives.
Let down by one single juror.
i totally agree. i also am against the dp but yesss NC did deserve it. and to see how scared he was to receive that sentence.
Agreed. I have ZERO sympathy for mfs that easily take lives within a matter of seconds but have the audacity to spend weeks, months, and years begging for some sort of mercy to escape the same conclusion for their own life. SICKENING....
@@zxy78267I think it was 3. At first it was 1, but 2 others ultimately sided with that juror.
How is mr Cruz doing in prison? Is he still alive?
I wonder if its better to die a hero or live as a coward?
I’m just getting caught up on this trial and this was my very 1st thought!
I guess when they are called resource officers because of all the resources they cost to do nothing and fill up a position that a motivated person might have.
Defense opening arguement was good. Very moving the lawyer is talent and knows how to draw in the attention of the crowd. Prosecution was boring dull could barely hear it. This should be a very interesting trial.
One of those rare trials where we don't know which way it will go.
Actually it wasn't good at all. He made a total fool of himself, getting objected on dozens of times lol
@@ChannelScott ehh, could go either way. A jury member might see it as too aggressively trying to keep out the scapegoat narrative, especially before a single witness had been called.
@@ChannelScott the one making a fool out of themselves is you. Over half of those objections were unnecessary and more importantly overruled by the court. They have a weak case and look like fools. Deliberately and selectively leaving out audio? Makes them look extremely bad.
A little off topic, but does anyone know where Cruz is currently incarcerated in Florida?
Someone who claims they met Scott Biegels parents during ‘Run 4 Beigel’ says they told him Cruz is currently being held in Florida State Prison.
@@dogwithsombrero6498 I was specifically looking for the name of the town and/or the facility in which he's being housed.
@@goaliereids3523what do you mean my n word, he’s being held in Florida state prison, otherwise known as FSP raiford or Raiford prison, which is located in Bradford county, and town is literally Raiford
I heard no one knows actually, that he’s at a undisclosed location
@Grogus Adventures! NO BULLING so why the f word are you asking?
I dont think he should be charged
the defendants lawyer is excellent.
I luv him
No he isn't! He had sustained objections throughout his opening statement. That's not good. His yelling is off putting and would make me not want to listen to him.
@@spacenerd9499 that’s your opinion I think he’s great
@@spacenerd9499 what's your point? Half of the objections were unnecessary and more importantly not sustained by the court.
I'm sure others may already know but has any evidence shown his personal cop camera? If he had one that is. Sad all around.
They shouldn’t play that audio
But he was saved.
How sad.
Will he call Nicholas Cruz as a witness?
Omgosh the volume is awful
25:48 that mans friends thank you.
So, how does playing terrible audio from the events, convict the man that wasnt even there to actually hear them, he didnt murder anyone. The person who murdered everyone has been convicted.
All this trial is doing is putting all these victims through this over and over. How can they possibly heal and move on. So sick. Nothing will bring thise kids back. This is just another pound of flesh being taken from the wrong person. He is a scapegoat
If he goes down, so should the principal, VP and the school board. Where do they stop with the blame? The person responsible is behind bars.
They want this as they didn't get a sense of justice nor retribution ever since that single Juror lied on application then delivered a wrong result.
I think that the victims and victims' families were the ones pushing the public prosecutor to go for it. Now, I may be mistaken, but I heard that they want Mr Peterson to face the music and go down as well.
@@FrozenHaxor wrong result?
@@RachelXKnight666 The parents wanted the death penalty, not life without parole. All of the prospective jurors were asked if they could sentence someone to to death, and they all said yes. But when NC was found guilty, one juror said they couldn't do it. The other jurors were furious, and the parents were angry and disappointed.
That's the same courtroom where Judge Scherer was. So sad she resigned.
cause she was terrible and biased
She is hot. I loved imagining what's under her robe
She was forced to resign because she was terrible as a judge and showed bias in front of the jury, allowed attacks on the defense attorneys, and couldn't control her emotions. She now works for her Daddy.
That poor father that walked out during that video. That was absolutely awful and how dare the state use that as evidence. Why would we care about hearing the gunshots within the building if the security office was outside the building!? Shameful and gross
2:37:04 …currently wondering why on earth these charges have been brought against this man…what a waste of time and resources.
The killer has already been convicted.
The defendant in this case did nothing criminal.
Also…I almost fell asleep during the prosecution’s opening…the defense attorney is so much more personable and if I were on that jury, I’d be listening hard to him.
Having said all that, my thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives to Cruz that day…IMO…Peterson shouldn’t have been criminalised, forcing the families through another agonising trial 💔
I am not quite sure how I feel about this case yet, but the prosecutions Opening Statement SUCKED!!
There are many more officers who didnt do their job school police and BSO and any staff who did nothing to stop this
He was the only one with a gun, so he was the only one that had any chance of stopping the shooter. The unarmed staff didn’t stand a chance, hence why some of them that came in contact with him died.
The sheriff's department was at the parameter of the school and did not enter school grounds
@@Michelle-nr1bmlike Uvalde's finest!?! Hooray for the US Border Patrol! 🙌🏻
Heartbreaking!!! And why isn't hundreds of officers in texas fired and charged to
Defense has an excellent attorney in this. I feel so sorry for those families. That evil Nickalous Cruz should have gotten the death penalty no doubt. In this case I’m not sure “another pound of flesh” will help anything. Praying for those grieving families. God bless them
I hope we can all respect the families wishes and not mention the parkland shooter’s name ever again.
I don't feel it is just to put someone to death because society failed.
A coward . Should be sacked , sued and punished to the maximum extent of the law .
Sued for what? The Supreme Court ruled that first responders don't have to die for anyone unless they choose to do so.
@@LunaLapin-ho5tkwrong. He is just as bad as Nikolas Cruz. Stop defending the scum of society. Children died when they didn’t need to!