Ron DeSantis’ decision to suspend the sheriff who oversaw the response to the Parkland school shooting was a knee-jerk reaction based on politics, not facts, a lawyer said Tuesday as a Senate hearing began on whether to uphold the suspension. DeSantis suspended Israel three days after taking office in January, saying the response to the Parkland massacre showed incompetence and neglect of duty. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWA lawyer for DeSantis said the suspension was justified, and that the department was unprepared for another mass shooting 13 months prior to Parkland that left five people dead. “Any failure of Deputy Peterson is also a failure of Scott Israel,” Primrose said. “It’s baffling that Scott Israel accepts zero responsibility for the admissions and neglect of the deputies he appoints.”

Source: thestar June 18, 2019 16:22 UTC