While four deputies waited outside, this officer ran in without a weapon

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On Wednesday, off duty Coral Springs police Sgt. Jeff Heinrich was on campus just as a dad. Heinrich, wearing shorts and t-shirt, was watering the infield as part of his duties as volunteer baseball trainer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, when the school fire alarm sounded and he heard “popping” sounds near the school parking lot.

“I thought it was fireworks and kids messing around at first,” Heinrich tells PEOPLE. But then the veteran police sergeant — whose wife is a teacher at the school and son is a student and varsity baseball player there — saw students streaming out of the building and recognized the distinct sound of rapid gunfire.

(People)

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Fake News, Watch those Russian bots IB Originally Posted by themystic

You'd be one of those Russian bots, mistake. Lee Harvey Oswald is your idol, and you're all about politically assassinating legitimately elected presidents, mistake.

IBH ...

" While four deputies waited outside, this officer ran in without a weapon"

Did you read the article?

He didn't enter the building where the shooting was ongoing. In fact apparently he didn't enter the building even after he borrowed a weapon from another Coral Springs Officer. He did assist a wounded student and some others, as well as call his wife, who was a teacher there, and make sure she and their son was ok.

But this predicament, unarmed, off-duty officer, is as good an example as any why off-duty officers should wear a weapon on them, so long as they are not engaging in any activities that could "impair" them (like drinking/partying) or could risk loss of the weapon or accidental discharge (leave it secured in the vehicle, but available). Each state may differ as to "prohibited places," but LE officers, whether on or off duty, should be allowed, not only for their own safety, but in such an event like this one.

IBH ...

" While four deputies waited outside, this officer ran in without a weapon"

Did you read the article?

He didn't enter the building where the shooting was ongoing. In fact apparently he didn't enter the building even after he borrowed a weapon from another Coral Springs Officer. He did assist a wounded student and some others, as well as call his wife, who was a teacher there, and make sure she and their son was ok. Originally Posted by LexusLover

I read three articles on what happened before I posted the OP. While the article by People magazine doesn't make it clear, SGT Heinrich did go in.

Coral Springs police Sgt. Jeff Heinrich was in a secured locker room with a wounded student — away from the gunman roaming the halls of the high school....

He helped the boy walk quickly to safety, and got him into the safety of the locker room. There, he grabbed the first-aid kit and tended to his shot leg with bandages and gauze from the first-aid kit, he said.

(Sun Sentinel)

But your headline made it sound like he went into the building to confront the shooter ... he went into a separate building ... not the one in which the shooter was firing. I'm not saying he did the wrong thing, or what he did was NOT GOOD ... IT WAS ... but he should not be used as a criticism of those who did not ... once there was more than one officer an entry should have started ... and I'm saying that sight unseen as far as what they knew, weapons they had, protection they had, and/or training.

That's why they get paid the big bucks! (joke!)

My beef is laying it off on Peterson, but not the others (I did see where 2 others have been suspended pending an investigation.) and the media/everyone else trashing him but saying nothing about the others.

But your headline made it sound like he went into the building to confront the shooter ... he went into a separate building ... not the one in which the shooter was firing. I'm not saying he did the wrong thing, or what he did was NOT GOOD ... IT WAS ... but he should not be used as a criticism of those who did not ... once there was more than one officer an entry should have started ... and I'm saying that sight unseen as far as what they knew, weapons they had, protection they had, and/or training.

That's why they get paid the big bucks! (joke!) Originally Posted by LexusLover

He did run in and provide first aid.

He did run in and provide first aid. Originally Posted by I B Hankering

From YOUR article:

“I got to the parking lot and a kid was coming out of the school screaming he was shot,” he says. “He was bleeding pretty good. It was a pretty nasty gunshot wound.”

Sir, he didn't enter the building where the shooting was.

He says so himself! Why do you change his facts?

To fit YOUR AGENDA?

He then says he took the wounded student to a secure location to administer 1st aid.