{"id":8978,"date":"2018-02-23T21:22:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8978"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:19:18","slug":"fell-through-the-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2018\/02\/23\/fell-through-the-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fell through the cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/22\/us\/nikolas-cruz-florida-shooting.html\">dealing with Nikolas Cruz<\/a>, there were lots and lots of opportunity for early intervention. People &#8220;saw something, said something&#8221; multiple times over the past four years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2014: Cruz was accused of shooting a chicken four years ago. It was confirmed he owned and used an airsoft rifle, but he denied shooting chickens.<\/li>\n<li>2016: The sheriff&#8217;s office for Broward County, Florida, was told third-hand that Cruz had guns. They determined he had knives and a BB gun.\u00c2\u00a0The School Resource Officer was a sheriff&#8217;s deputy assigned to the school was informed.<\/li>\n<li>2016: Cruz was investigated by the SRO for ingesting gasoline and cutting himself in a suicide attempt. A counselor advised he\u00c2\u00a0did not meet criteria for involuntary commitment for the mentally ill.<\/li>\n<li>2016: Florida&#8217;s social services agency looked into Cruz after he posted on social media about self-harm and assessed him not at risk of harming either himself or others.<\/li>\n<li>2017: The FBI got a tip five months ago about a profession school shooter comment on Youtube. There are dozens of people with this name all over the country and almost a dozen in Florida. I&#8217;d think the only way to pursue it would be to get a warrant, but before the incident, this is not a warrant many judges would grant.<\/li>\n<li>2018: The FBI got a tip one month ago about Cruz specifically talked of committing a school shooting which it did not investigate.<\/li>\n<li>2018: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/gy88n4\/the-armed-school-resource-officer-at-stoneman-douglas-waited-outside-during-the-shooting\">The SRO deputy was not near the building when Cruz started shooting. And waited outside.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems like for every person claiming this kid was bad news there were a couple dismissing the concerns as overblown. I mean, his mother died a couple months after the Youtube &#8220;profession school shooter&#8221; comment. The couple who took him in knew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/20\/us\/florida-shooting-nikolas-cruz-snead-family\/index.html\">he owned multiple guns but felt he was safe and happy<\/a> and thought they had the only key to the gun safe. They also had no idea about his social media use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of dealing with Nikolas Cruz, there were lots and lots of opportunity for early intervention. People &#8220;saw something, said something&#8221; multiple times over the past four years. 2014: Cruz was accused of shooting a chicken four years ago. It was confirmed he owned and used an airsoft rifle, but he denied shooting chickens. 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