{"id":8411,"date":"2024-07-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8411"},"modified":"2024-06-30T19:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T23:25:18","slug":"the-next-time-you-hear-the-police-dont-have-a-duty-to-protect-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-next-time-you-hear-the-police-dont-have-a-duty-to-protect-you\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NEXT TIME YOU HEAR \u201cTHE POLICE DON\u2019T HAVE A DUTY TO PROTECT YOU\u201d\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026 remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/27\/us\/uvalde-grand-jury-indictments-police-chief-officer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Half a decade ago at the Parkland school massacre, Deputy Scot Peterson, the assigned school resource officer, failed to \u201cride to the sound of the guns.\u201d Many kids were killed. They called Peterson \u201cthe coward of Broward\u201d and&nbsp;&nbsp;\\years later, tried him for child endangerment. He was acquitted, largely because his defense lawyers brought in eyewitnesses who were present at the murder scene and said they couldn\u2019t tell where the shots were coming from, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Uvalde, they knew where the shots were coming from and where the mass murderer was. The now-accused chief knew it too, and held his men back, even disarming and removing from the scene one officer who was about to make \u201cpositive entry\u201d on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When police are present there is in fact an absolute duty, not to commit hopeless self-sacrifice, but to make a good faith effort to fix the life-threatening problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is going to be an interesting case to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 remember this. Half a decade ago at the Parkland school massacre, Deputy Scot Peterson, the assigned school resource officer, failed to \u201cride to the sound of the guns.\u201d Many kids were killed. They called Peterson \u201cthe coward of Broward\u201d and&nbsp;&nbsp;\\years later, tried him for child endangerment. He was acquitted, largely because his defense lawyers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8413,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8411\/revisions\/8413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}