Hypocrisy of Gov. Scott--he's now ready to clean up the mess 17 dead bodies later. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr
[Speaking Truth To Power]
In the wake of Florida's Valentine's Day massacre, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which took 17 lives, we now see Republican politicians blaming anything for mass shootings, except America's insane gun lawsincluding one American institution they usually never blamed for anything: the police.
Isn't it ironic that those who never find fault with anything police do, especially, when they are busy brutalizing and murdering Black people, are now willing to blame police for failing to stop Nikolas Cruz's deadly rampage?
Why? Isn't this a convenient diversion so they can protect the blood money profits of gun manufacturers and the NRA? They will throw the police under the bus for the NRA; now that's perverted power.
Recently, Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the Broward Sheriff's Office's handling of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School shooting.
Like the FBI, the Broward Sheriffs Office is also being scrutinized for their actions in the aftermath of this mass murderand their alleged failures in stopping the killer Nikolas Cruz.
Reportedly, several officers were on the scene, when the shooting was ongoing, but failed to enter the school. This prompted even the lunatic president in the White House that he personally would have run into the building even unarmed.
Besides Deputy Scot Peterson, who has since resigned from the Broward Sheriff's Office, other officers were said to have been present when the shooting was in progress. "There must be an independent investigation and that is why I asked the FDLE Commissioner to immediately start this process," Scott said in a written statement. "I have spoken to the Speaker regularly since the shooting, and like
