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Parkland Deputy Who Failed To Confront Shooter Now Collecting Big Pension

Ryan Saavedra

A new report released on Tuesday revealed that the Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy who was the school resource officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and who failed to confront the school gunman is raking in a big pension now that he has retired.

Sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson, who waited outside the school for several minutes during the shooting, is now receiving a monthly pension from the state of $8,702.35. The Sun-Sentinel reports:

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