NBC 6's Steve Litz has reaction from the President after it was announced that a deputy did not enter the school during the February 14th shooting. 
 
 What to Know The school resource officer who was at the Parkland school during the shooting but "never went in" has retired after being suspended. 
 
 Citing security footage, the Broward Sheriff says officer Scot Peterson took a position outside the school during the shooting. 
 
 Two other officers have been placed on restrictive duty while investigators look into 23 previous calls received related to the gunman. 
 
 The school resource officer who was at the Parkland school but "never went in" where 17 people were shot dead has retired after Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel on Thursday said the official had been suspended without pay. 
 
 Israel said school resource officer Scot Peterson took a position outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as the onslaught occurred, citing security footage. Israel said Peterson was "absolutely on campus," adding that he was armed and in uniform during the shooting. 
 
 "After seeing video and witness statements, and Peterson's own statement, I decided this morning ... to suspend Scot Peterson without pay pending an internal investigation," Israel said, adding that Peterson chose to then resign and retire. 
 
 When asked what Peterson should have done during the shooting, Israel said he should have "went in, addressed the killer and killed" him. 
 
 BSO Press Conference 
 
 BSO Sheriff Scott Israel announced school resource officer Scot Peterson has been suspended amid an investigation. Peterson subsequently chose to resign and retire. (Published Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018) 
 
 "Our main goal at this point, absent of helping these families heal and keeping our schools safe, is making sure this killer receives the justice he deserves," Israel previously said. 
 
 President Donald Trump reacted to Israel's revelation Friday morning, telling reporters on the South Lawn that Peterson "certainly did a poor job." 
 
 "That's a case where somebody was outside, they're trained, they didn't react properly under pressure. Or they were coward," Trump said. "When it came time to get in there and do something, he didn't have the courage." 
 
 Trump and the NRA have pushed for "hardening" schools against attackers and arming teachers and other staff members with guns in the school. However, critics have said that is beyond the scope of a teacher's job and could present new safety challenges. 
 
 The NRA on Friday responded to Israel's comment to an NRA spokesperson during a town hall on Wednesday in which he said the NRA is "not standing up" for the survivors of the shooting. 
 
 "No Sheriff Israel, you were the one that didn’t PROTECT these children and that is your job. You run the largest fully accredited sheriff's office in the United States, yet your office failed this community," NRA wrote on Twitter. 
 
 School Resource Officer Suspended, Resigns Over Parkland 
 
 NBC 6's Michael Spears reports on the BSO press conference in which it was announced that the school resource officer at the Parkland school where 17 people were killed did not properly respond. (Published Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018) 
 
 Hours after the NRA's post, the hashtag #ResignSheriffIsrael began trending on Twitter. 
 
 When asked how a trained, armed officer who didn't "didn't react properly under pressure" would be different from arming a teacher, the president said that "you have to have a certain degree of offensive power in the school, not just defensive." 
 
 In 2014, the Broward County Crime Commission awarded Peterson with the title of School Resource Officer of the Year for the City of Parkland District. 
 
 The group said Peterson proved "to be reliable in handling issues with tact and judgment." 
 
 The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said the suspended deputy's family requested privacy and protection. 
 
 
 
 Israel also addressed the 23 previous calls BSO received related to the gunman. Two other officers who previously responded to one of the calls related to accused gunman Nikolas Cruz have been placed on restrictive duty. 
 
 'He Never Went In' Israel Talks About School Officer 
 
 Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel says Marjory Stoneman Douglas High resource officer Scot Peterson never went inside the building to confront the gunman and placed under investigation. (Published Wednesday, May 16, 2018) 
 
 "In two of these cases, after being briefed by internal affairs, I've restricted two of our deputies to take statements and make a decision to see whether they should have and could have" done something to prevent the shooting, Israel said. 
 
 BSO released a document that detailed each call it received related to Cruz – including the two calls that led to the unidentified officers being placed on restrictive duty. 
 
 The two officers are facing an internal affairs investigation and a BSO internal review. 
 
 On Feb. 2, 2016, a deputy responded to a suspicious incident call in which someone reported that Cruz made a post on Instagram indicating he "planned to shoot up the school." However, the police document suggests the specific target was "unknown." 
 
 The deputy made contact with the caller who wished to remain anonymous. The deputy determined that Cruz had knives and a BB gun. 
 
 "Information forwarded to Stoneman Douglas School Resource Officer," the document's response description concludes. 
 
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 NBC 6's Darryl Forges is at one of several locations where students left class for a period of time Wednesday, one week after the Parkland school tragedy. (Published Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018) 
 
 It has not yet been confirmed if Peterson, who was assigned to the school for years, was the resource officer who received the information of the threat. 
 
 The other call and response under review occurred on Nov. 11. 
 
 "Caller advised subject Nikolas Cruz is collecting guns and knives. Cruz wants to join the Army. Concerned he will kill himself one day and believes he could be a school shooter in the making," the document reads. 
 
 The deputy who responded contacted the caller via telephone. 
 
 "No report was initiated," the document reads. 
 
 In an interview after the shooting, the deputy said he referred the caller to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office as the caller said he believed the Cruz was living in Lake Worth. 
 
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 NBC 6's Laura Rodriguez, reporting from the BB&T Center in Sunrise, covers Wednesday's CNN town hall over gun reform following the Parkland school shooting. (Published Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018) 
 
 The BSO press conference occurred after 17 people, mostly teenagers, were shot dead at the school in Parkland. 
 
 The accused gunman is a former student who had previously been reported over disturbing behavior particularly about weapons. 
 
 Israel on Wednesday announced that he directed a new policy that will arm Broward County deputies stationed at schools with a rifle. 

 The police officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing to enter the building as a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people. 
 
 Sheriff Scott Israel said Deputy Scot Peterson should have “went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.” Video footage showed Peterson did none of that, Israel said. 
 
 The sheriff’s office also said Thursday that two deputies were put under investigation for how they handled potential warnings about Cruz, including one from November in which a caller said Nikolas Cruz “could be a school shooter in the making.” 
 
 Peterson, 54, came under scrutiny after 19-year-old Cruz entered a school building with an AR-15 rifle and killed 14 students and three educators on Valentine’s Day. Cruz later confessed, police said. 
 
 The sheriff said video shows Peterson was outside the building for “upwards of four minutes” while students were gunned down inside. 
 
 “What I saw was a deputy arrive … take up a position and he never went in,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “There are no words. I mean these families lost their children. We lost coaches,” Israel said. 
 
 Peterson resigned, and subsequently retired, at 12:37 p.m. Thursday after he was suspended without pay earlier in the day, Israel said. An investigation into what happened will continue. 
 
 Peterson’s resignation ends a more than three-decade career with the agency, where he was often regarded by peers as a dependable employee who could communicate well with both staff and students. 
 
 The 6-foot-5-inch native of Illinois started with the agency in July 1985, after studying at Miami-Dade Community College and Florida International University, according to records released Thursday by the sheriff’s office. 
 
 Peterson had been a school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas since 2009. He was considered a trusted officer who “values his position and takes pride in protecting the students, faculty and staff at his school,” a 2017 performance review said. 
 
 His annual salary in 2016 was $75,673.72, according to sheriff’s office records, but he made $101,013 that year with overtime and other compensation. Peterson has been the subject of two internal investigations, neither of which resulted in significant discipline. 
 
 Soon after the shooting took place, Israel and Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie were forced to answer questions about where Peterson was during the shooting and why he did not confront Cruz. 
 
 “I’m in shock and I’m outraged to no end that he could have made a difference in all this,” Runcie said Thursday. “It’s really disturbing that we had a law enforcement individual there specifically for this reason, and he did not engage. He did not do his job. It’s one of the most unbelievable things I’ve ever heard.” 
 
 Stoneman Douglas student Brandon Huff, 18, a senior, said he had seen Peterson standing outside the building and talking on his radio during the shooting. 
 
 Huff said he first learned of the shooting in a text message from his girlfriend, who said she was hiding in a corner and shots rang out. 
 
 “Two coaches went in and were shielding kids and throwing themselves in front of bullets and he did nothing.” 
 
 Peterson could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon at his home in Boynton Beach. Neighbor Nelson Sandy said he saw Peterson leave his house around 3 p.m., driving his work vehicle and accompanied by at least two Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies driving their work vehicles. 
 
 “They were here today, three police officers and they all left together,” Sandy said. 
 
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 Felicia Burgin, a ninth-grade English teacher, was locked in her classroom with students on the second floor of the building, as they heard shots from the floor above. 
 
 She said the criticism of Peterson is unfair. Peterson wouldn’t have stood a chance against the gunman in hallways that were filled with students at the time, she said. 
 
 “There is no one that is going to tell you a negative thing about Deputy Peterson," she said. “He was an Eagle and he was committed to our school. I don’t know what he could have done other than literally died.” 
 
 The two deputies, Edward Eason and Guntis Treijs, were put on a restricted assignment Thursday. 
 
 Col. Jack Dale, head of the agency’s internal investigations unit, said the deputies were under review for how they handled two calls, including the one from November where the caller also said Cruz “was collecting guns and knives,” according to documents released by the sheriff’s office. A deputy followed up with the caller but did not create a report documenting it. 
 
 A separate incident, from February 2016, was also under review. The sheriff’s office said a deputy responded to a tip that Cruz planned to shoot up a school and that the information was forwarded to Peterson, the school resource officer. 
 
 Israel said the agency was involved in 23 calls involving Cruz or his brother Zachary since 2008. 
 
 Eason started with the agency in 2000 and Treijs in 2002, according to state records. Both will be paid during the investigation. 
 
 The reports to the sheriff’s office are the latest acknowledgment from officials that there were concerns about Cruz before last week’s shooting. The FBI said it did not investigate a tip involving Cruz, from January, and in another case said it was alerted in September about a YouTube comment that could have led to Cruz. 
 
 “It’s unclear as to whether a policy violation occurred or not, so we feel at this point that they deserve extra scrutiny and to be reviewed and investigated,” Dale said. 
 
 Staff writers Brian Ballou, Aric Chokey, Anne Geggis and Susannah Bryan contributed to this story. 
 
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– “I am devastated,” the Miami Herald quotes Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel as saying. “Sick to my stomach. He never went in.” Israel suspended Scot Peterson—the school resource officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland—pending an investigation into his actions during the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 dead. Peterson, 54, resigned and retired shortly after his suspension was announced Thursday, the Sun Sentinel reports. He had been the school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas since 2009 and with the sheriff's office since 1985. He was named School Resource Officer of the Year for the City of Parkland District in 2014. But a review of witness statements and security footage from the Feb. 14 shooting called Peterson's actions into question, according to NBC Miami. Israel says Peterson was armed and "absolutely on campus" when the shooting started. He says Peterson took up a position outside the school and stayed there for over four minutes as the shooting went on. The sheriff says Peterson should have "went in, addressed the killer, killed the killer." "There are no words," he says. "These families lost their children." The investigation into Peterson will continue. Israel also admits to other possible failures in the months and years before the shooting. A tip to the sheriff's office in November that Nikolas Cruz "could be a school shooter in the making" didn't get written up. A relative had called the sheriff's office and asked it to seize Cruz's weapons weeks before the tip. And two years earlier a deputy investigated a report that Cruz "planned to shoot up the school" with nothing coming of the investigation.