Florida Teacher Says Sheriff’s Deputy Is a ‘Scapegoat’ in School Shooting

Florida teacher says sheriff's deputy is a 'scapegoat' in school shooting (The Hill)

A teacher from Parkland, Fla., said Friday that people are directing their hurt and anger in the "wrong direction" by blaming a Broward County sheriff’s deputy who failed to act to try to prevent the deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week.

“People are angry right now. They’re angry, they’re hurting. And now all their hurt is being directed in, to me, the wrong direction,” Marjory Stoneman Douglas teacher Felicia Burgin said on MSNBC. “If you want to be angry at something, be angry at the gunman who killed all these people."

She said Deputy Scot Peterson, who was on the grounds during the shooting and resigned following an internal investigation, was being used as a “scapegoat.”