'Coward of Broward' police deputy arrested for inaction during Parkland mass shooting

I wrote a pretty long comment in T_D when the Parkland shooting had happened and we were talking about the inaction of the deputy, and I don't feel like going through a year and a half plus of comments to find what I'd said...

Let me reiterate. I'm a combat vet, I fought two tours in Iraq and I've seen actual direct combat. I've seen people who were trained to go to war lock up and perform poorly when shit really hit the fan.

Keep in mind that this guy was a cop, not a soldier. None of you were there, none of you know what his perspective was, none of you know what he has to live with for the rest of his life. We can all fantasize about how we would've selflessly ran in there, guns blazing, and stopped the punk ass shooting up that school. David Hogg would've never been anything more than a community college drop out, and no one would've died but the shitbag who you righteously dropped, right?

Let me tell you straight up... a LOT of people wouldn't have had the balls to run in there, regardless of training, regardless of intelligence. We can sit here on a high horse now acting like we would've done better, but the large majority of average Joes in here wouldn't have done any better. Let me tell you first fucking hand, going into a building with a known hostile somewhere inside takes balls you can't even goddamned imagine.

I don't think the deputy should be getting punished, because he has to live with what happened for the rest of his life. I've known soldiers who would go into the latrine, and punch themselves in the face fucking repeatedly because they were fucked the hell up from the shit they did or didn't do in Iraq. I didn't even get anybody fucking killed, but from one instance where my rounds strayed over some buildings resulting in a near miss on another unit, and another where I could've killed an insurgent if I was looking further to the left ...I've never forgotten that and I second guess it fucking constantly.

Don't sit in here all self-righteous acting like you would've done shit. You weren't there, the people trying to fry this fucking dude weren't there, and none of us are going to have to go through what this man is going to have to endure in his mind and conscience until his last breath. Let me tell you, as someone who actually fucking knows, you have no idea how punished this guy already is.

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