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“I gave him a gun. I gave him a badge. I gave him the training,” Sheriff Israel told an NBC6 South Florida reporter in a video interview tweeted by Erika Glover. “If he didn’t have the heart to go in, that’s not my responsibility.”

As for the sheriff, he is a pretty typical politician, hiring friends and political allies, treating his law-enforcement position as a nakedly political fief. His arrogance is astounding: When asked about his penchant for hiring his supporters and looking after his own interests first, the sheriff replied, “Lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep.” But the people of Broward County didn’t hire Scott Israel to be a lion; they hired him to be a sheepdog, a task at which he has failed so completely as to make regaining the public trust impossible. Indeed, it is not clear he ever deserved that trust to begin with. If he has any respect for his oath, his badge, or his community, he should step aside. If his sense of duty does not prevail, he should be forced out.

OlBill wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:

OlBill wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

OlBill wrote:We're mad at him for not being a hero.

Doing the job you are paid to do doesn't make you a hero, regardless how dangerous that job may be. We're mad at him for not doing his job because he's the worst kind of coward.

Chas.

With all respect, he's not paid to die. He's not paid to fight a rifle with a pistol. Any other outcome would have been pure luck.

Yes he is.

I disagree. That is an unrealistic expectation. People who do it will do it regardless their job, like the coach. Many if not most won't. None of us know what we would have done, we just like to think we do.

How do you train somebody to "charge in"? How do you train somebody to fight a rifle with a pistol?

When did he know how many shooters there were?

OlBill wrote:

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

OlBill wrote:We're mad at him for not being a hero.

Doing the job you are paid to do doesn't make you a hero, regardless how dangerous that job may be. We're mad at him for not doing his job because he's the worst kind of coward.

Chas.

With all respect, he's not paid to die. He's not paid to fight a rifle with a pistol. Any other outcome would have been pure luck.

Oldgringo wrote:Had it been you OR me, what would you OR I have done? Just wonderin'.....

Keith B wrote:

Seems to fit this department