The Deputy Who Stood By While The February 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting Was Taking Place Asked A Judge To Rule That He Had “no Legal Duty” To Protect The Students.
The Sun-Sentinel reports that Scot Peterson’s attorney, Michael Piper, told Judge Englander Henning, “We want to say he had an obligation, but the law isn’t that. From a legal standpoint, there was no duty.”
Henning rejected Piper’s argument, opining that Peterson had an “obligation to act reasonably” in response to the shooting.
The suit against Peterson is a wrongful death suit brought by Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack.
Joel Perwin, Pollack’s attorney, expressed astonishment that Peterson is trying to get the suit dismissed. Perwin said, “It is inconceivable that anyone could advance the proposition that Scot Peterson had no duty to these people. That is an absurd proposition. … This was an abdication of responsibility when this [shooting] happened, and it is an abdication of responsibility now in this courtroom.”- READ MORE