Showing posts with label Broward County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Broward County. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Friday, March 30, 2018

WATCH: Woman Sues After Cops Brutally Beat Her for Asking for a Tampon

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The taxpayers of Broward County, Florida are going to be held accountable for the brutal actions of multiple officers who savagely beat a woman after she asked for a tampon.


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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Just Like Vegas, Authorities are Hiding the Surveillance Footage of Parkland Shooting

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Just like officials have done in Las Vegas, authorities in Broward County are now surrounding themselves in secrecy and refusing to released the surveillance footage showing Nikolas Cruz attack the school.


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Monday, February 26, 2018

Lessons Learned from the Broward County Florida High School Shooting

By a Marine Corps veteran/former Law Enforcement Officer



In response to the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, I would like to extend my condolences and prayers to the families and friends of all the victims.



In wake of all the recent evidence and allegations that are now coming to light on the performance and conduct of the Broward County Sheriff Department, this horrific event not only could have been stopped, but avoided.



One sheriff’s deputy has already resigned under the allegations of dereliction of duty and others are under investigation. In my opinion, this is not only gross dereliction of duty but an act of cowardice for which he should be held criminally and civilly liable. It should be noted that standard operating procedure for most police departments is no longer to set up a perimeter. The first two officers on scene enter and neutralize the shooter.



Contrary to the behavior and actions of the first deputies on the scene, I would like to personally thank and commend Sgt. Jeff Heinrich of the Coral Springs Police Department who was off duty at the time and unarmed. His actions, using a borrowed vest and pistol, were above and beyond the call of duty. He ran to the sound of gunfire and entered the school to help the other officers in his department with their response. His actions are exemplary and are an outstanding example of a true Oath Keeper.



The FBI has admitted, and is now conducting, an internal investigation on the breakdown of their procedures as to the information they received months prior to this incident involving the shooter, Nikolas Cruz. The procedures were grossly mishandled, resulting in his being able to purchase the weapon he used in this shooting. If these complaints had been handled properly, Nikolas Cruz, by his own actions, would have been reported to NCIC. He would not have been able to purchase any firearm which is how the law is intended to work!



This is overwhelming evidence that the laws on the books concerning gun control are not being enforced! This horrible incident, along with many others that have occurred in the past, are proof that if the federal and state agencies responsible for enforcing our current gun laws actually did their jobs, these incidents would have been prevented!


New allegations are coming to light that the Broward County Sheriff’s Department and the Broward County School Board actually came to an agreement to hide and do away with juvenile arrest statistics in order to secure federal funding for both of their agencies.




If these allegations are proved to be true, then the Sheriff and the School Board are guilty of trading financial gain for the safety of our children. They should both be removed from office and immediately charged as accessories to the murder of seventeen innocent children because they manipulated the very system put in place to protect them.

 
As a former law enforcement officer whose last serving post was in the state of Florida, I do not condemn nor make allegations against fellow officers lightly. I do however, believe we are not above law and have been entrusted with a duty not to be taken lightly. When one of our own neglects the Oath of Office which was given before God as one of the most sacred oaths and honors to be deemed upon a man or woman, and breaks the law or demonstrates the inability to carry out the responsibilities that he is been given, he should be removed.


Governor Scott of Florida has called for the head of the FBI to step down for the failures of his agency. He is now calling for the Broward County Sheriff and the head of the Broward County School Board to follow suit. The citizens of Florida need to stand with your Governor and demand the same.



We, as Oath Keepers, must not sit idly by and allow these indiscretions to be perpetrated by our government. As veterans and fellow law enforcement professionals, we also must remember that we took the same sacred oath before God to defend the Constitution of the United States America. It is our obligation to insure that we live up to that oath; for in the end we will be judged by God and our fellow citizens on our actions.



Semper Fi,



Billy Simmons, Vice President

Oath Keepers National Board of Directors

National Law Enforcement Liason

Louisiana State Coordinator


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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Let’s Talk About The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting

Why do you suppose this boy fell through the disciplinary cracks so many times? Was it by design?


by  Jacque Guinan


This was an incredibly heart-breaking event. Hearts and prayers across the nation are lifted up to these children and their parents/families. Every day across the nation, parents send their children off to school, as they have for centuries. Up until recently, it has never been even a fleeting concern that their children may not return home at the end of the day. Why now? What has changed?


As more and more details emerge regarding this most recent event; a picture is developing. It is a shocking, devastating, hard to accept picture. We see failures and mistakes that would ultimately culminate into an unimaginable tragedy – Failures and mistakes; or are they?


Let’s venture back to 2013. Here is a quote from Nikolas Cruz’s disciplinary reports, obtained by Miami Herald:


Westglades Middle School, which he attended in 2013, he’d been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations.


Records show the behaviors continued at Marjory Stoneman Douglas [High School], which he attended in 2016 and 2017 before being transferred, with discipline being dispensed for fighting, profanity, and an “assault.” It appears the Jan. 19, 2017 assault resulted in a referral for a “threat assessment.” A few months later, Cruz landed at an Off Campus Learning Center, where he remained for only about five months.


Why do you suppose this boy fell through the disciplinary cracks so many times? Was it by design?


Let’s go back a little further, to 2011. A familiar name appears – Trayvon Martin. In neighboring Miami-Dade School District. Trayvon was observed on surveillance cameras in 2011, in an unauthorized area “hiding and being suspicious” – Immediately after, he was observed “marking up” a door. The next day, his backpack was searched, looking for a graffiti marker. Instead, what was found was a bunch of womens’ jewelry and a screwdriver that was described as, “a burglary tool”. Without going into a lot of detail; let’s just say that this crime and others were lied about, police reports falsified and evidence hidden, in order to cover up the crimes.

Why?


Here is a Conservative Treehouse article outlining the “backpack incident of Trayvon Martin


Here are the Sworn affidavits of police officers claiming they are instructed to look the other way, destroy/hide evidence, and falsify reports:

1.)  Affidavit of Sergeant William Tagle


2.)  Affidavit of Detective Steven Hadley


3.)  Affidavit of Commander Deanna Fox-Williams


4.)  Affidavit of Sergeant Lourdes Hodges


5.)  Affidavit of Detective Gylamar Ochoa


6.)  Affidavit of Sergeant Bradley Rosh 


Apparently, in order to improve criminal statistics within the school systems of Miami-Dade and Broward counties; the schools intentionally created policies that would culminate into the mass shooting that occurred. Why??



In August of 2012 President Obama had issued an Executive Order and Federal Education Policy establishing the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence. Effectively placing “quotas” on school discipline based on race and financially rewarding schools with federal grants who bring down their disciplinary and arrest numbers.



Broward county went even further by completely halting arresting students and changing their policy of suspension.


To put it in perspective:


In 2011/2012 Broward County School Administration made a policy decision to block the arrests of students in order to improve their education statistics.


In 2013 Broward County School Administration was warned what was happening as a result of the policy as more and more serious crimes were being committed and overlooked.


In 2015 The school continued with their “Diversionary Policies” and allowed students to break the law without legal consequence


In 2017 Nikolas Cruz criminally assaulted someone – law enforcement was blocked, repeatedly, by school policy. The sheriffs’ department was contacted over 20 times regarding concerns over Nikolas Cruz.


In 2018 Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 students/faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS and injured several more.


Again, why? Why would a school superintendent and a sheriffs’ department blatantly ignore crime and avoid the prosecution of criminal offenders? Nikolas Cruz had shown violent tendencies repeatedly – police were called to his home, repeatedly.


One month before the shooting, there were even phone calls to the FBI tip line – twice – warning that Nikolas Cruz was “going to explode” FBI transcripts show that a girl close to Cruz had called and said she was terrified that Cruz would “get into a school and just shoot the place up”. Cruz had been posting violent messages on his instagram – at first saying he wanted to kill himself; and then switching to a desire to kill other people. The caller went on to describe that Cruz had been cutting up frogs and birds; which she called “a red flag” Why would they ignore this?



One of the motivations to “ignore” illegal activities in the schools, is funding and grants. The school administrators wanted to improve their statistics in order to qualify for state and federal grant money. So, they entered into an agreement with the top LEO officials to stop arresting students for crimes; as noted by the 6 LEO whistle blowers previously linked.


As if things were not bad enough with a school administration and sheriffs’ department adopting policies of “look the other way”; We find out that not just one, but a total of 4 Sheriffs’ Deputies were outside of the school at the time of the shooting. 1 by the front of the building with a clear view of the lobby and 3 others hiding behind their cars, with their guns drawn. Why? Why did they not go in and confront the shooter?


When Coral Springs police officer showed up on the scene, they said they were “stunned and upset” to learn that 4 Broward County Sheriffs’ deputies were stationed outside the building and had not gone inside to engage the shooter. Some even went so far as to call it a “derilection of duty”. Even when the Coral Springs officers went inside the building, the Broward county officers did not join them. Why?


The question needs to be asked; why was there disciplinary action against one deputy and not the other 3? Could it have been because only one was caught on camera?


Where is the CCTV camera footage from the school and what does it show? Where is the Uber driver who supposedly dropped Nikolas Cruz off at the school the morning of the shooting? What was in the large black bodybag that police carried from the building during the shooting and threw in the back of a truck? What happened to Alexa Miednik who was interviewed the day of the shooting and claimed to have been walking down the hall with Nikolas Cruz as gunshots were going off in another part of the building? Why are there several witnesses claiming there was more than one shooter? Who is paying for these kids to travel around the nation in expensive charter buses to rally and demand gun control? Why are they wearing ear-pieces when they speak-who is giving them talking points? These are all relevant questions we need to be demanding answers to because as more information comes out; the official narrative is looking less and less believable.


Lastly, does it seem even slightly suspicious that this sheriff:



A) Allowed crime within his county school system to be actively covered up and to go unpunished and therefore escalate.



B) Ignored multiple warnings of a violently troubled individual within the Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS. Including warnings that he had bought a gun and had made open threats to “shoot up the school”



C) Supervised 4 deputies who failed to engage an active shooter as he took aim at over 20 innocent children and unarmed faculty.



D) Refused to accept any responsibility and instead placed the blame on the shoulders of the NRA organization and on top of that, openly calls for gun restriction and confiscation laws, immediately after the shooting.


Is it surprising that this sheriff has been referred to as “best friends” with Debbie Wasserman-Shultz? Is it surprising that this sheriff actively volunteered for the HRC presidential campaign and has been pictured with numerous vocal anti-gun politicians? Curiously, there are no corresponding pictures of the sheriff with conservative politicians.



There are numerous inconsistencies emerging in regards to this tragic event; with each piece of the puzzle being even more alarming than the last. We need to deeply question this situation. We need to locate and follow the money trail and ask some really tough questions about not only how and why this tragedy was permitted to occur; but what events lead up to it, who is profiting from it and what political agenda motives may have played a part.



Redoubt News


 


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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Broward County Sheriff Under Fire – Should he be removed?


By   2-24-2018





Does Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel need to resign? Recent revelations appear to reveal a serious flaw in the department’s “law enforcement” methods. A resident of Broward County is calling for the Sheriff Israel’s removal as well as the school board, all of whom he holds responsible for the massacre on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. And he is right, there is more than a smoking gun in this travesty.


“I call on Governor Rick Scott to suspend from office, pursuant to Section 7 of the Florida Constitution, Sheriff Israel, Superintendent Runcie, all members of the school board of Broward County and DCF Secretary Carroll for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, incompetence, and permanent inability to perform official duties and appoint replacements that will ensure the safety of our children.” Wayne Alder, attorney, in the Coral Springs Talk.


The Coral Springs paper wrote,


“School Board Superintendent Robert Runcie admitted the school board was aware that Cruz, who was diagnosed as emotionally disabled, was transferred from a special behavioral center to Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 2016, even though educators were aware even before the move that Cruz was preoccupied with guns, violence and people being killed.”


Deaths of students directly lie at the foot of the school and the Sheriff


Breitbart wrote that another report released on Friday revealed that THREE other Broward County Deputies stood outside the building where the  carnage was taking place and still failed to enter to stop the perpetrator. That makes FOUR. As we previously reported, SRO Scot Peterson resigned over it.


According to the report, Coral Springs Police officers joined with the last two arriving Broward County Deputies and actually entered the building. By then, the six minutes of massacring students and faculty were over and the perpetrator had fled. The Coral Springs officers were reportedly extremely upset that the first few Broward County deputies did not enter the building to stop the perpetrator.


It came to light previously that the  security footage of the shooting had been rewound and was on a delay, so that police thought the perpetrator was still in the building after he was long gone. Who did that is unknown, but it seems relevant to the questions raised.


Broward County Schools – Is this why the Sheriff’s office virtually ignored Nikolas Cruz for months?  


How could this happen?



 [snip]



According to a writer at The Conservative Treehouse, the school district and law enforcement in Broward County entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) back in 2012 that stated students would not be arrested for misdemeanor crimes. It is unclear if that memorandum actually went into effect. The purpose was to keep students who were most likely to be arrested from being prevented from graduation.


Though the MOU does not actually negate law enforcement discretion, it does set up a mindset.  And over time, that mindset seems to have started to excuse crimes far worse than misdemeanors. Politically speaking, it ‘looks good’ for both the schools and law enforcement if the crime rate “drops.”


But it is not a true picture when, for example, a drug situation ends up as a “found property” report instead of a drug arrest. One is counted on statistical summaries, the other is not. Read more of that situation here.


Broward Co Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline – MOU by The Conservative Treehouse on Scribd


[snip]


The Daily Caller reported,


“The sheriff has also faced corruption accusations: department employees routinely attended campaign events while on the clock for their taxpayer-funded positions, a Local10 investigation found in 2016.


Sun-Sentinal investigation the same year found that the sheriff had routinely handed out taxpayer-funded jobs to political supporters. The sheriff’s response at the time: “lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep.”


Israel is now facing sharp criticism for his department’s repeated failures to stop Stoneman Douglas school shooter Nikolas Cruz. The sheriff’s office was warned repeatedly that Cruz was a school shooter in the making, by both his relatives and those close to him, but failed to act to prevent the shooting.”



It is unconscionable for any law enforcement official to chose the political agenda of others over their duty as a police officer to protect and defend the people of their jurisdictions.




Read more at Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children





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BOMBSHELL REPORT: Broward County Schools and Police Colluded to Shield Criminal Students

Clues about how Nikolas Cruz slipped through cracks are emerging.


 | Infowars.com – FEBRUARY 23, 2018


Bombshell claims alleging collusion between Broward County law enforcement and the Broward school district to protect criminal students from arrests and disciplinary action have been leveled by a journalist familiar with the protocols in practice.


According to information currently available, Parkland mass shooter Nikolas Cruz was visited by local law enforcement 39 times over the course of seven years and was also reported to the FBI at least twice, leaving many to wonder how he slipped through the cracks, evaded arrest, continued attending school, and legally purchased firearms that he would later use to kill 17 of his former classmates and teachers.


Some clues may have emerged from a report chronicled by the editors of the Conservative Treehouse (CTH), an independent blog, who have provided corroborating documentation that paint a very convincing picture for the circumstances that may have enabled Cruz to slip through the cracks.







Broward County Sheriff’s Office Did Not “Miss Warning Signs” or Make “Mistakes”… http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/23/broward-county-sheriffs-office-did-not-miss-warning-signs-or-make-mistakes/ 





“I spent about 18 months in 2012, 2013 and 2014 investigating Broward and Miami-Dade school policies and how those policies transfer to law enforcement practices,” CTH explains. “What I stumbled upon was a Broward County law enforcement system in a state of conflict. The Broward County School Board and District Superintendent, entered into a political agreement with Broward County Law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes.”



“The motive was simple. The school system administrators wanted to ‘improve their statistics’ and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein.”


The 2013 “Collaborative Agreement On School Discipline” between the School Board of Broward County and the Sheriff of Broward Country, as well as the Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP and a variety of other state and local legal bodies, can be found HERE.


In short, the agreement established new standards and practices by which law enforcement would seek alternatives to arresting students who had committed crimes or “minor disturbances,” with a specific focus on “students of color, students with disabilities and LGBTQ students,” who were “disproportionately impacted by school-based arrests for the same behavior as their peers.”


CTH asserts that the types of lawbreaking being swept under the rug quickly escalated from minor offenses to serious felonies.


“The need to continue lowering the arrests year-over-year meant that increasingly more severe unlawful behavior had to be ignored. Over time even the most severe of unlawful conduct was being filtered by responding police,” CTH writes. “We found out about it, when six cops blew the whistle on severe criminal conduct they were being instructed to hide.”


[snip]


The Miami Herald alluded to the types of oversights and ‘missed’ signs that enabled Nikolas Cruz to glide through the system in a report on Wednesday.


“And long before Cruz embarked on the worst school shooting in Florida history, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies had multiple warnings that the 19-year-old was a violent threat and a potential school shooter, according to records released Thursday.”



“In November, a tipster called BSO to say Cruz ‘could be a school shooter in the making,’ but deputies did not write up a report on that warning. It came just weeks after a relative called urging BSO to seize his weapons. Two years ago, according to a newly released timeline of interactions with Cruz’s family, a deputy investigated a report that Cruz ‘planned to shoot up the school’ — intelligence that was forwarded to the school’s resource officer, with no apparent result.”


On Wednesday, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel revealed that an armed Parkland school officer, Scot Peterson, arrived on the scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as Cruz was in the process of killing 17 innocent victims, but never went inside the building to render aid.


 



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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Friday, October 20, 2017

Notoriously Sadistic Cop Sued for Forcing K9 to Maul Man—FOR 20 MINUTES

dogA cop with a history of forcing his dog to maul people is in court again, this time for allegedly forcing his K9 to maul a man for 20 minutes.

Saturday, September 9, 2017

Curfews Issued Across Southern Florida Cities: "Deputies Will Not Be Responding"

Local governments are now issuing curfews across South Florida.





Broward County has issued a curfew starting at 4:00 pm and remains in effect until further notice.



A mandatory curfew will also be in place tonight in Coral Springs from 8:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m.



The City of Fort Lauderdale will enforce a Countywide curfew beginning at 4 p.m.



A barrier island curfew will be in effect for the City of Deerfield Beach and the Town of Hillsboro Beach at noon. A Citywide curfew for Deerfield Beach will also begin at noon.



The City of Miami Beach issues curfew starting at 8:00 p.m. Saturday – 7:00 a.m. Sunday.



A mandatory 3pm curfew will be in place in Palm Beach County  until further notice



As CBS reports, Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said, “When winds reach 45 mph, deputies will not be responding.”



Effects of the storm will get stronger throughout the day. “By 2 p.m., residents will start feeling tropical storm force winds,” she said.