The chief law enforcement officer responsible for safety at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has become an unlikely political lightning rod two weeks after a mass shooting there claimed 17 lives, with his department coming under intense scrutiny for its handling of the attack.
Republican lawmakers have called for Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel to be suspended from his job for his department’s failure to follow up on warnings about the alleged shooter and its delayed response to the school on Feb. 14 after gunfire was reported. Gov. Rick Scott (R) has asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to open a review of the sheriff’s performance. And new scrutiny has been placed on the admitted failures of the Broward sheriff’s office in responding to a separate 2017 mass shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport.
Source : washingtonpost
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