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EDGEMAN

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Shooter could have faced charges before massacre — had cops done their job


Nikolas Cruz threatened classmates, posted photos of himself holding guns, made violent statements online and was repeatedly described to authorities as a potential “school shooter.”
His troubling behavior gave law enforcement plenty of opportunities to investigate and arrest him — and even take away his guns — long before he shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last week, according to interviews with former South Florida prosecutors and legal experts.

In recent years, South Florida police detectives have arrested a slew of young men in unrelated cases who exhibited similar, troubling behavior on a variety of charges. Cops took them seriously.

It never happened with Cruz.

“There’s no doubt there was a failure,” former Miami-Dade prosecutor Marshall Dore Louis said of how law enforcement handled tips about Cruz. “The idea that they were aware of it and could do nothing is absurd. ... We can’t let this happen again.”

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Posted: 02/27/2018 at 12:13PM



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  Just sounds like a coward to me. -- YardBird 02/27/2018 12:02PM
  + Infinite ** -- darnellm 02/27/2018 12:07PM
  Delete** -- darnellm 02/27/2018 11:22AM
  The Mighty Mighty Bosstones agree ** -- Late 80s Hokie 02/27/2018 11:39AM
  That’s the impression that I get. ** -- Hoakie82 02/27/2018 12:36PM
  🔥 And it’s really hot. 🔥 ** -- YardBird 02/27/2018 12:12PM
  That would be optimal, but... -- EDGEMAN 02/27/2018 11:06AM
  And that would be suboptimal -- Beerman 02/27/2018 11:17AM
  Who says they will leave their weapon unsecured. -- EDGEMAN 02/27/2018 11:33AM
  People are stupid. It happens. -- Beerman 02/27/2018 11:41AM
  An ounce of prevention...shooter never gets inside -- TomTurkey 02/27/2018 09:15AM
  Key...I edited for that ** -- TomTurkey 02/27/2018 09:20AM
  Seems misplaced. That was the Deputies job -- MEHOKIE 02/27/2018 08:01AM
  Most resource officers are buddy, buddy with students. -- hokiehunter07 02/27/2018 09:50AM
  Well, that settles it! -- 48zip 02/27/2018 08:13AM
  There was a story I read that said -- JoesterVT 02/27/2018 07:57AM
  So, why was he thrown under the bus? -- TomTurkey 02/27/2018 12:11PM
  But he was "following protocol" ** -- TomTurkey 02/27/2018 4:46PM
  Stinks the high heaven, IMO. ** -- reestuart 02/27/2018 12:59PM
  There were 3-4 of them. None went in. ** -- BobG 02/27/2018 07:57AM

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