Here’s What Sheriff Israel’s Deputies Did to Prevent and Stop the Parkland School Shooting (But They Don’t Want US to Have Guns)

Gun control advocates are shouting from the rooftops about disarming the public and arming only police officers. and deputies like those under the guidance of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.

Why do we need guns, they posit, when trained professionals will protect us? The NRA is evil, they cry, let’s shut them down, Meanwhile, they’re ignoring apathy and inaction (at best) of the people who had the authority to have prevented this tragic event by enforcing laws which already exist.

Yesterday, I shared at length the in-house documentation of the lapses made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case of Nikolas Cruz. Today, I’d like to discuss the trail of errors by local law enforcement that culminated in the deaths of 17 people at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14th. After reading this article and the one that preceded it, let me know in the comments if you really think “law enforcement” will save you when things go bad.

Let me preface this by stating that I don’t think all cops are bad, lazy, or cowardly. Every police officer who I know personally would have rushed into that building and risked their lives to protect those kids. I blame the bureaucracy, the failed leadership of Sheriff Scott Israel, and the specific deputies who were derelict not just the day of the shooting, but for ten years preceding the shooting.

There were many disturbing signs well before law enforcement was involved.

Nikolas Cruz watched his father die of a cardiac arrest when he was only 5 years old. “…when Cruz was just 5, he came into his kitchen crying. When mom Lynda asked him, “What’s the matter, did Daddy punish you?,” he answered, “Nope. Daddy’s dead.”” (source)

As a young teen, his mother saw him cut up a dead bird on the kitchen counter to “see what was inside.” (source) His disturbing social media history included the following events:

• Another report said that he “appeared to be feuding with people on Instagram — where he posted pics of his “arsenal” and claimed shooting was “group therapy,” according to reports.” (source)


• On his Instagram, it was reported that, “In almost every picture, he can be seen wearing a black shirt or scarf over his face, to conceal his identity. “F–k youuuuuuuuuuuuu allllll,” Cruz wrote in one caption, from December 2015. In other posts, viewed by the Orlando Sentinel and Miami Herald, the high school student appears to talk about background checks and buying a rifle — which he planned to outfit with a scope “for hunting,” the papers report. (source)


• In 2016, Cruz cut himself on the social media app Snapchat and said he wanted to buy a gun. (source)

Cruz was first diagnosed with behavioral issues when he was only 3 years old and these wide-ranging issues continued.

He had been diagnosed with a string of disorders and conditions: depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emotional behavioral disability and autism, records from the state Department of Children and Families show. His mom told sheriff’s deputies he also had obsessive-compulsive disorder and anger issues.

He had counselors in school and at home, according to DCF records, and he took medications…

…In January 2017… Cruz inexplicably stopped undergoing mental health treatment. (source)

His mother passed away last November when the flu turned into pnuemonia.

His former classmates weren’t at all surprised to learn he had been the shooter. A few of the stories they told to the media were:

• Other kids were scared of him. One classmate said he was an evil kid” and “always getting in trouble.” (source) Others said they were worried because he was “talking about his guns and sharing pictures of small animals he had shot.” (source)


• One student told the media of other warning signs, like, “stealing people’s mail, throwing rocks at cars and tormenting animals. He described one incident in which he said Cruz “cornered a squirrel and was trying to throw rocks at it and kill it.” (source)


• Another student said she…” noticed him holding his crotch during class. “I looked close and I saw he was holding a dead bird near his genitalia,” Hemans said. “I saw some feathers and I knew it was a bird. That was disturbing.” (source)


• Students were not surprised when they learned Cruz was the shooter. One told the media, “I can’t say I was shocked. He seemed like the kind of kid who would do something like this.” Others agreed, saying “Everyone predicted it.” (source)


• Cruz was cited as having joked about shooting up the school previously. “Cruz said he talked a lot about having fun with firearms, so much so that some joked that if anyone were to attack the school, it would probably be him.” Others stated that he “threatened to bring the guns to school multiple times” and that he “threw jokes around that he’d be the one to shoot up the school.” (source)

Cruz was transferred between 6 schools in three years and was always in trouble. “Teachers and other students said he kicked doors, cursed at teachers, fought with and threatened classmates and brought a backpack with bullets to school. He collected a string of discipline for profanity, disobedience, insubordination, and disruption.” (source)

Cruz was expelled from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School for disciplinary issues. (source)

Law enforcement officers also ignored the warning signs and never took actions before the murders occurred.

For the sake of ease, I’ll just list these blunders off in bullet form.

• The local sheriff’s office – you know, the one with the deputies who stood outside and hid behind a car while children were being massacred, has a record of 45 calls about Cruz and his brother between the years of 2008-2017. Sheriff Israel disputes this number and says it was “only” 23 calls, but CNN reports that the documents prove that number is indeed 45 calls. (source)


• The first call to law enforcement about Nikolas Cruz occurred when the boy was only 9 years old. (source)


• The emergencies calls included a “mentally ill person,” “child/elderly abuse,” “domestic disturbance” and “missing person.” (source)


• Police documents said, “The incident reports, which are as recent as September 2016, describe Cruz as suffering from mental illness and being “emotionally handicapped,” and being on behavioral medication. One notes, “He has mentioned in the past that he would like to purchase a firearm.” (source)

The people around Cruz pleaded with law enforcement to recognize that the boy was a real threat with numerous reports.

• In 2014, someone accused him of shooting a chicken with a BB gun.


• Records show that in 2016, a neighbor warned the sheriff’s office of an Instagram post in which Cruz said he “planned to shoot up the school.” This week, Joelle Guarino told CNN she placed the 911 call and had begged the sheriff’s office to intervene. She was told there was nothing deputies could do until Cruz actually did something, she said.


• Later that year, an unidentified peer counselor alerted the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s school resource deputy that Cruz “possibly” drank gasoline “in an attempt to commit suicide,” was “cutting himself,” and “wished to purchase a gun.”


• On November 1, the day his mother died, Broward Sheriff’s Office received a call from Lynda Cruz’s cousin, who warned deputies that Cruz had rifles and pleaded for them to “recover these weapons.”


• On November 30, the sheriff’s office received a call from a tipster in Massachusetts who warned them Cruz was “collecting guns and knives,” and “could be a school shooter in the making.” Records show the deputy “referred caller to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office,” which had jurisdiction over Cruz’s temporary home with a family friend.

But it appears that their calls to the Sheriff’s office fell on deaf ears. Had any of these encounters been followed up with the appropriate actions, Cruz’s name would have been in a database and he wouldn’t have been able to legally purchase a firearm.

Then, 4 armed deputies stood outside and hid while children were massacred.

The next part of this tale is even more disturbing. On the day of the shooting, an armed, uniformed Sheriff’s deputy was on site and never even entered the building.

• First, there was the armed deputy who served as the school’s resource officer. He was on the scene and considered himself a hero because he called it in. However, the armed man with 33 years of experience with the sheriff’s office never even entered the building because he says he thought the gunfire was happening outside so he “took up a tactical position.”


• Ironically, Peterson was Broward County’s 2014 School Resource Officer of the Year, hailed then for his “reliability in handling issues with tact and judgment,” CBS2’s Dick Brennan reported. (source)


• Peterson has defended his actions in a statement delivered by his attorney. “the allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue. Mr. Peterson is confident that his actions on that day were appropriate under the circumstances and that the video (together with the eye-witness testimony of those on the scene) will exonerate him of any sub-par performance…” (source)

Sheriff Israel strongly denounced Peterson but denies any responsibility for the deputy’s inaction.

“As I said, I’m the Sheriff, my name’s on the door,” Israel said. “The people responsible are the ones who took the calls and didn’t follow up on them, as it was with the FBI, as it was with any person.”

“Leaders are responsible for the agency, but leaders are not responsible for a person,” Israel told the station. “I gave him a gun. I gave him a badge. I gave him the training. If he didn’t have the heart to go in, that’s not my responsibility.” (source)

However, it turns out that Peterson wasn’t the only person from the Sheriff’s department who did nothing. Sheriff Israel’s men were the first on the scene.

When Coral Springs police officers arrived, they were shocked to discover that the deputies had not yet entered the building. 130 officers from the Coral Springs PD responded and commendably, raced into the building immediately. (source)

Zero Hedge reported:

Some Coral Springs police were stunned and upset that the four original Broward County Sheriff’s deputies who were first on the scene did not appear to join them as they entered the school, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. It’s unclear whether the shooter was still in the building when they arrived.

The four Broward Sheriff’s deputies, including fired High School Resource Officer Scot Peterson, had their pistols drawn from behind the safety of their vehicles, and “not one of them had gone into the school,” according to shocked Coral Springs police.

The Coral Springs officers, meanwhile, entered the building soon after they arrived on scene to confront the shooter, while the four Broward County Sheriff’s deputies remained outside until two more officers arrived on scene along with an officer from neighboring Sunrise city.

What these Coral Springs officers observed — though not their feelings about it — will be released in a report, likely next week. Sources cautioned that tapes are currently being reviewed and official accounts could ultimately differ from recollections of officers on the scene.

Many have asked the question of whether these deputies were cowards or if they were ordered to stand down to push an agenda.

The Coral Springs PD was definitely not pleased with the deputies’ lack of participation…or their glory-hogging.

The resentment among Coral Springs officials toward Broward County officials about what they perceived to be a dereliction of duty may have reached a boiling point at a vigil the night of February 15, where, in front of dozens of others, Coral Springs City Manager Mike Goodrum confronted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. A source familiar with the conversation tells CNN that Goodrum was upset that the Broward deputies had remained outside the school while kids inside could have been bleeding out, among other reasons…

…Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi addressed some of the concerns voiced by his officers in an internal email obtained by CNN that said, among other items, “I understand that another agency has given the impression that it had provided the majority of the rescue efforts, and that the tremendous work of the Coral Springs Police and Fire Departments has not been recognized. (source)

While taking all the credit, Sheriff Israel takes no responsibility for the botched work of his office and somehow blames the NRA for the entire debacle.

At a televised town hall last week, Israel took no responsibility for the failures of his department.  Instead he presented himself as the protector of the public while suggesting the NRA is a direct threat.

“You won’t be on [our] side, until you start pushing for less guns,” he told NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch.

This is troubling because even as he stood on that stage, Sheriff Israel knew–though his audience didn’t—that one of his officers took cover in the parking lot and left the shooter to roam the school halls. The very strategy Israel was advocating—rely on the police for your personal safety, not armed citizens—had failed, and he knew it. When the facts came out later in the week, Sheriff Israel’s performance appeared shockingly dishonest.

Instead of apologizing, however, Sheriff Israel doubled down, bragging Sunday morning that he has provided “amazing leadership” to Broward County.  “I have led this county proudly… it’s not the responsibility of the general or the president, if you have a deserter.”

High self-praise for a law enforcement official who just had 17 people killed on his watch. (source)

I couldn’t make up this mindboggling narcissistic lack of awareness if I tried. In a bizarre interview with CNN explaining why he refuses to resign, Israel managed to deflect any blame and praise himself.

“I can’t predict how an investigation is going, but I’ve exercised my due diligence, I’ve led this county proudly as I always have… we have restricted that deputy as we look into it…”

Tapper angrily asked about the department’s decision to ignore the red flags…

‘If ifs and butts were candy and nuts OJ Simpson would still be in the record books,’ Israel replied in his rambling TV appearance.

Tapper then asked Israel: ‘At this point sir, do you understand how the public, seeing red flag after red flag… warning after warning… they hear that your office didn’t even initiate a report?! How could there not even be a report on this?’

Israel replied: ‘Well, if that’s accurate Jake, there needed to be a report and that’s what we’re looking into.’

He pointed the blame to officer Peterson, who he said was wrong by failing to forward the reports to Homeland Security or the Violent Crimes Unit. (source)

It’s interesting, although not related to this story,  to note that Sheriff Israel has previously been accused of corruption, allegations to which he responded with fun phrases like, “”What have I done differently than Don Shula or Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King, Gandhi?” and “Lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep.” (source)

Would you trust Sheriff’s Israel’s deputies to protect you?

Meanwhile, people are loudly demonizing gun owners and the NRA on social and mainstream media, while suggesting we all hand over our weapons so these yahoos can “protect us.” Sheriff Israel himself has a history of being vocally anti-gun, “opposing open-carry legislation and one law that would allow concealed weapons on campuses.” (source)

So basically, he opposed anything that might have saved those kids.

The lack of logic in this premise is truly astounding, but one thing is blatantly clear. If you need to protect yourself, chances are that you’ll be completely on your own. And I’m improving my chances of survival by being armed because I certainly can’t depend on folks like Sheriff Israel and his team.

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Gun Rights And Mental Health Restrictions: A Slippery Slope

This article was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.com

In the wake of the Parkland shooting, as in the wake of any mass shooting, there has been a scramble by various political groups to place blame for the violence. Everyone is looking for the source of the evil that causes these events, to little avail. In most cases, at least when it comes to the extreme Left, the blame is placed squarely on guns themselves. This is obviously an absurd notion. Placing blame on the particular tool used in the crime does not solve the problem of the criminal and what led him to the deed. Whether or not the tool made his crime “easier” is irrelevant to the greater disturbance at hand.

After years of debate and failed legislation, leftists have discovered that resistance to the incremental destruction of the 2^nd Amendment is insurmountable, and a change in narrative has occurred. Finally, we are talking more about mental health issues and a little less about guns. This is a win for gun rights, however, there is a danger that needs to be addressed.

First, while mental health is being presented in the mainstream media more and more as a central issue in mass shootings, I find it interesting that the problem of psychotropic pharmaceuticals has been conveniently ignored. In a large number of non-terrorist related shooting incidents, assailants have been subjected to long term psychotropic drug use. Why has this factor not been addressed?

Well, consider the fact that Big Pharma has spent at least $2.5 billion over the past ten years lobbying in Washington D.C. Compare this to the NRA lobbying budget, which in comparison was a paltry $20 million over the past 10 years according to OpenSecret.

This should put into perspective the idiocy of anti-gun advocates and their obsession with the “nefarious” NRA. The influence of the pharmaceutical industry is almost universally ignored when it comes to the debate on gun violence, yet their lobbying efforts dwarf all others. All this despite the fact that psychotropic drugs are proven to influence violent and even homicidal behavior in people.

Second, the focus on mental health in terms of the Parkland shooting seems to be glossing over the vast failings of the FBI and local law enforcement in following up and investigating the dozens of warnings they received about Nikolas Cruz.  As I outlined in my recent article ‘“Mass shootings will never negate the need for gun rights,” gun grabbers love to trot out legislation on increased background check restrictions and closing the “gun show loophole,” yet none of their suggested solutions would have stopped the Parkland tragedy from taking place.

The success of Nikolas Cruz’s attack was due to the abject failure of the FBI and law enforcement, NOT the failure of background checks. Had they done their jobs, Cruz never would have been able to purchase a firearm to begin with. I find it rather ironic that gun grabbers constantly argue that average citizens do not need guns for self defense because they have law enforcement to rely on, yet it was exactly the stupidity or inaction of law enforcement that opened the door wide for Cruz to (allegedly) kill.

Clearly, the so-called “authorities” are not trustworthy enough to carry out the job of protecting us all from active shooters. The only people capable of stopping an active shooter in a fast and practical manner are armed citizens on the scene at the moment the attack begins.

Third, and most important, is the issue of mental health parameters and how they will be used to restrict gun rights. The ATF already has rules regarding people “adjudicated as mentally defective,” which includes people ruled a danger to themselves and others by a “court, board or commission or other lawful authority.” Now, these guidelines themselves can be rather broad, but abuse by government so far has been limited (though some instances have been egregious). If the Trump administration seeks to broaden the guidelines even further, then we may have a problem.

Take for example the unacceptable abuse of military veterans and their 2^nd Amendment rights by the Bureau of Veterans Affairs. The VA has in recent years placed restrictions on thousands of veterans, negating their gun rights without due process and without oversight. And all of this has been predicated on the claim that some veterans are “mentally defective” based on dubious parameters, including whether or not they let their spouse handle household finances.

This is what I am talking about when I bring up the dangers behind “mental illness” and gun rights. WHO gets to decide who is mentally ill and why they are mentally ill? Will this be done by a jury of our peers? Or, by an unaccountable and faceless bureaucracy? Will the guidelines for mental illness be strict and specific, or will they be broad and wide open to interpretation? Once a person has been labeled mentally defective, will they have the ability to appeal the decision, or will the label haunt them for the rest of their lives?

Gun rights activists should not put blind faith in the Trump administration to ensure that new mental health legislation will remain fair to the 2^nd Amendment. Unfortunately, Trump is on record as supporting the “No Fly List” gun control bill. This type of bill is something liberty activists opposed vehemently under the Obama administration because it allows the government to erase the gun rights of almost anyone without due process merely by placing them on an arbitrary watch list. A list, I will remind readers, that is a matter of national security and not subject to public overview.

Would a list of “mentally defective people” fall under the same Orwellian standards?

What about the new and disturbing designation by the psychiatric community of oppositional defiance disorder? This absurd “illness” is being applied to people as young as pre-school age and suggests that adults with the illness often display resistance to authority figures and government.

What if your opposition is not to “authority” in general, but to CORRUPT authority specifically? Is this mental illness, or the very epitome of sanity?

In the Soviet Union, it was all too common for the government to abuse “mental illness” designations as a means to silence and imprison political dissent. Anti-government agitation and propaganda were criminalized under Soviet legal codes, and these codes were frequently applied in conjunction with the psychiatric system. This was sometimes referred to as “punitive medicine.”

The problem with government and psychiatric institutions joining forces to determine constitutional rights for individuals should be obvious. Government should be as separate from the medical establishment as possible yet they are often intertwined to terrible effect. If mental illness is not adjudicated by a jury of ones peers and with extreme oversight by gun rights groups, then abuse of such laws by government is almost guaranteed. The temptation to use backdoor bureaucracy in a totalitarian manner to underhandedly confiscate guns and sabotage the 2^nd Amendment will be high.

It is also important to remember that even if you have placed full and blind faith in the Trump administration, there are no guarantees that the constitutional rules we allow him to bend today will not be completely broken by the next president in line. Gun rights are paramount to a free society. Without them, governments almost always revert to increased socialism and “tyranny creep” while violent crime continues or increases as the citizenry is left defenseless. Mental illness AND psychotropic drugs need to be taken seriously in terms of gun violence, but it is also vital that we do not allow the issue of mental health to be exploited as a subversive means to undermine our freedoms.

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From the FBI’s Own Records, Here Are the Chilling Warnings About Nikolas Cruz They Ignored

How do you stop a mass shooting before it starts? Here’s an idea:

How about if FBI agents actually investigate when threat after threat is called into your tipline?

I’ve written previously about numerous warning signs about Nikolas Cruz were ignored before he shot up Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day. The FBI was well aware of Cruz and his potential to become violent before the horrific event in which 17 people lost their lives ever occurred.

But, hey, let’s blame the NRA, right?

The first report about Cruz’s potential to become a school shooter came last September, a couple of months before his mother died of the flu.

The worst thing of all, though, is that the FBI received more than one credible tip about Nikolas Cruz’s potential to be a school shooter.

The first one was in September when he made the following statement on Ben Bennight’s YouTube channel.

“Im [sic] going to be a professional school shooter.”

He signed it with his real name.

Bennight tried to email the FBI’s tip line and when his email bounced, he called the local field office. He reported the comment and two FBI agents took his statement. The FBI said:

“In September 2017, the FBI received information about a comment made on a YouTube channel. The comment said, ‘I’m going to be a professional school shooter.’ No other information was included in the comment which would indicate a particular time, location, or the true identity of the person who posted the comment,” said a statement released by Jackson, Miss., FBI field office spokesman Brett Car. “The FBI conducted database reviews and other checks, but was unable to further identify the person who posted the comment.” (source)

Bennight did everything he could to help the FBI. (Here’s the video he posted about it.)

Here’s the comment that Cruz had left on Bennight’s YouTube channel.

While the FBI questioned Bennight, they never contacted Google, who owns YouTube and could have given them the IP address to assist them in finding the commenter (who used his own name).

And it gets worse.

There was another warning that was completely ignored by the FBI.

On January 5th, a month before the shooting, an extremely credible threat was phoned into the FBI’s tipline. You can see the transcript below, and I’ve highlighted some particularly chilling segments.

 

 

 

 

 

You can download the FBI transcript HERE. (I always like to save things like this to my own server, since they have a way of vanishing.)

So, what happened after this alarming phone call?

Nothing.

And the FBI admitted it in an official statement

On January 5, 2018, a person close to Nikolas Cruz contacted the FBI’s Public Access Line (PAL) tipline to report concerns about him. The caller provided information about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.

Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami Field Office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been taken.

We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received by the PAL on January 5. The information was not provided to the Miami Field Office, and no further investigation was conducted at that time. (source)

Wow, I sure am glad we have the FBI to “protect” us.

These epic failures could have stopped 17 murders and infinite trauma had the FBI just done their jobs.

And I’m not through. Tomorrow, I’ll crucify the Coward County Sheriff and his deputies who did nothing while people were being murdered by an untrained 19-year-old.

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Records Show Sheriff is Deceiving Public on FL Shooter As Their Failure Virtually Let It Happen

Records obtained from the Broward Sheriff"s Office reveal that the number of times police were warned about Nikolas Cruz happened far more than they are claiming.

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MSM Florida Shooting Narrative CRUMBLES: Teacher Saw Shooter In ‘Full Metal Garb’

A Marjory Stoneman Douglas  High School teacher, Stacey Lippel, is speaking out about what, more specifically, who she saw shooting up the school on that fateful Valentine’s Day. Lippel says the shooter was in “full metal garb” which is in stark contrast to the image (above) of the alleged shooter that the mainstream media continues to show us.

Lippel, who is a creative writing teacher, says she was only about 2o feet away from the shooter as a “barrage” of bullets flew down the hallway and into classrooms.  Lippel’s arm was grazed by one of the bullets fired by the gunman who she says was in “full metal garb” and was even wearing a helmet.

“I suddenly saw the shooter about 20 feet from 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 is 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.” –Stacy Lippel

Watch the video before YouTube removes it.  The site has been scrubbing all videos that do not parrot the mainstream media’s official narrative.

In the interview with ABC‘s Good Morning America, Lippel describes the shooter very differently than the image we were shown of Cruz in handcuffs on the ground. “I had a good visual of him. I saw him shoot a barrage of bullets,”  she said. But this teacher isn’t the only one making claims that don’t align with the students turned propagandists for a gun control agenda.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Alexa says she passed school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz immediately after the shooting and had a brief exchange with him.  She also said there was, for certain, more than one shooter.

Both of these eyewitness accounts fly in the face of the official narrative the mainstream media is expecting us to digest. By now, it’s evident that the media has an agenda and is working hand in hand with globalists to disarm the good American people with phony narratives and false flag attacks that become immediately about the loss of rights instead of about the gaping holes in their own story.

Police maintain the suspect Nikolas Cruz arrived via an Uber ride at 2:19 p.m. and initiated his attack within 1 minute. 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. [All in under 60 seconds]

An affidavit filed by the Broward County Sheriff states: “Cruz stated that he was the gunman who entered the school campus armed with an AR-15 and began shooting students that he saw in the hallways and on the school grounds. Cruz stated that he brought additional loaded magazines to the school campus and kept them hidden in a backpack until he got on campus to begin his assault.” -Intellihub

One other oddity that was found buried and almost unnoticeable was an interesting detail found in an article in the Chicago Tribune. It claims that police found a kid in a bulletproof vest after the shooting.  The student claims his dad, who is a cop, gave him the bulletproof vest.

In the classroom where Mackenzie Hill had been hiding, police broke through the door. As the officers were guiding students out, they noticed something odd: One of the students had put on a bulletproof vest.

The student said he’d been given the vest by his father, a police officer.

Even in the safest city in Florida, he’d brought it to school with him, just in case. –Chicago Tribune

Many ask questions because things continue to not add up. Calling those who want the truth “conspiracy theorists” in order to shut down the argument doesn’t prove the media, who has been caught lying and propagandizing for the government and a globalist agenda many times, is being genuine.

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.

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The UK Banned Guns—Now Stabbings and Violent Crime Are Out of Control

While gun control advocates argue that stricter laws could prevent mass shootings, statistics show that countries with those laws in place are battling increasing rates of stabbings and other violent crimes.

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False Flag? FBI Admits That They Did Not Follow Protocol When Given Tip About Alleged Florida Mass Shooter Nikolas Cruz

In a shocking admission by an agency that rarely admits mistakes, the Federal Bureau of Investigations has revealed that they received a tip about the alleged Florida mass shooter at least a month before the attack but somehow did not follow “protocol” after the information was received.

In a statement posted on the agencies website, the FBI noted that it received a tip about the troubled teenager through its Public Access Line that detailed the teens gun ownership and erratic behavior.

In other words, the FBI just publicly admitted that they ignored a key tip that, if followed up on, could have stopped Nikolas Cruz from killing 17 people and injuring over a dozen more!

The statement reads:

On January 5, 2018, a person close to Nikolas Cruz contacted the FBI’s Public Access Line (PAL) tipline to report concerns about him. The caller provided information about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.

Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami Field Office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been taken.

We have determined that these protocols were not followed for the information received by the PAL on January 5. The information was not provided to the Miami Field Office, and no further investigation was conducted at that time.

How on earth could the FBI receive such a detailed tip from someone CLOSE to Cruz and then ignore it to the point that it wasn’t even sent to the field office in the area the alleged shooter lived in?!

In response to the FBI’s shocking admission, Florida governor Rick Scott is calling for FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign as he was the head of the agency when the tip was ignored and is indirectly responsible for the attack even being allowed to happen in the first place.

Scott released his own statement Friday that reads:

“The FBI’s failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable. The FBI has admitted that they were contacted lasted month by a person who called them to inform of Cruz’s ‘desire to kill people’ and the ‘potential of him conducting a school shooting.”

“We constantly promote ‘see something, say something,’ and a courageous person did just that to the FBI. And the FBI failed to act. ‘See something, say something’ is an incredibly important tool and people must have confidence in the follow through from law enforcement. The FBI Director needs to resign.”

While most Americans are sure to believe that this was an honest accident by the FBI, one has to wonder if this tip was ignored on purpose, especially when you consider the agencies long history of using informants to entrap idiots in what amounts to the FBI staging fake terror attacks themselves.

When you add in the fact that the entire establishment is now pushing even more gun control and you have all the hallmarks of a classic false flag.

What do you think?

Did the FBI “accidentally” ignore the tip that could have stopped the alleged Florida mass shooter or was this a purposeful act designed to allow a mass shooting to happen which could then be used to further erode Americans Second Amendment rights?

Nobody Wants to Admit to the Real Reasons Behind American Mass Shootings

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) Parkland, FL — There was “mass casualty event” at an American high school yesterday that took the lives of 17 students, and I’m unfortunately not surprised at this point. Mass shootings have become commonplace in America as of late, and after every one of them, the political blame game spins round and round, even before we send […]

Nikolas Cruz Publicly Stated He Wanted to Shoot Up a School—The FBI Knew and Did Nothing

The suspect in a mass shooting that killed 17 people, was reported to the FBI months ago for making comments on YouTube saying, "I"m going to be a professional school shooter."

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