More than eight years have passed since a gunman murdered 17 people and injured 17 more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Now families who lost loved ones that day are finally getting their day in court in their battle for “accountability” against the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
The families say BSO has been needlessly delaying the case. The lawsuit claims BSO’s failures surrounding the massacre were numerous, and not just limited to the notorious inaction of the school resource officer, former Deputy Scot Peterson.
“It was all the other eight deputies that showed up and never went in the building, so we just want our day in court, we want a trial, we want to show the jury everything that the Broward Sheriff’s Office failed to do that day,” said Max Schachter, whose son, Alex, was among those killed that day…