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Officer Who Failed to Intervene in Parkland Massacre Found Not Guilty of Criminal Charges

HeadlineJun 30, 2023

A Florida jury has found former Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson not guilty on all 11 criminal charges he faced for allegedly failing to protect students during the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Seventeen people were killed in the massacre; another 17 were injured with wounds from the gunman’s semiautomatic assault rifle. Peterson faced charges of felony child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury, after video showed he remained positioned outside the school for over 40 minutes as approximately 75 gunshots went off. Defense attorneys successfully argued that Peterson was unable to tell which direction the shots were coming from.

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