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Why Didn’t Scot Peterson Try to Stop the Parkland Shooter? - The Atlantic

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Why would an armed officer stand by as a school shooting unfolds?

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 1:27:18 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. It was the early afternoon of Valentine’s Day 2018, and the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was full of kids exchanging stuffed animals and heart-shaped chocolates. Scot Peterson, a Broward County sheriff’s deputy, was in his office at the school, waiting to talk with a parent about a student’s fake ID. At 2:21 p.m., a report came over the school radio about a strange sound—firecrackers, possibly—coming from Building 12. Peterson stepped outside, moving br

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