Sure dimwit
Buzzfeed found the shooter's website(chock full of disturbing gun sh*t) in less than a day...probably is less than five minutes.
How long does it take to google Nikolas Cruz?
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And now the truth comes out.
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The FBI said it failed to act on a tip warning of the suspected Florida school shooter's potential for violence
by Mark Berman and Matt Zapotosky February 16 at 12:58 PM Email the author
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A timeline of the deadly Florida school shooting
At least 17 people were killed in a shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14. According to officials, this is how and when the events occurred. (The Washington Post)
The FBI said Friday that a month before the shooting rampage at a South Florida high school, the bureau received a warning that the 19-year-old charged in the shooting might carry out such an attack — but then investigators failed to act on it.
The startling revelation came two days after police say Nikolas Cruz marched into his former high school and gunned down 17 people. In a statement, the FBI said it received a tip last month from “a person close to Nikolas Cruz” reporting concerns about him, specifically saying that he could potentially carry out a school shooting.
While this should have been investigated “as a potential threat to life … these protocols were not followed,” the bureau said in a statement.
“We are still investigating the facts,” Christopher Wray, the FBI director, said in the statement. “I am committed to getting to the bottom of what happened in this particular matter, as well as reviewing our processes for responding to information that we receive from the public.”
This revelation made the Parkland shooting the third time in as many years that a mass shooter who terrorized Floridians had previously come to the bureau’s attention. In 2016, the FBI said it had previously investigated the man who gunned down 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Last year, authorities said a man charged with killing five people at the Fort Lauderdale airport had walked into an FBI office weeks earlier and made bizarre statements.
The FBI’s statement was also the latest sign that authorities failed to act on unnerving behavior and warning signs that littered Cruz’s troubled life. While a grieving community mourned the lives cut short in the massacre, Cruz’s attorney said that while he does not doubt his client’s guilt, he believed the massacre could have been prevented had authorities recognized the repeated red flags in the teenager’s life.
[ The lives lost in the Parkland school shooting ]
Howard Finkelstein, a public defender in Broward County for the past 40 years, said society failed Nikolas Cruz, who has been charged with killing 17 people, most of them teenagers too young to get their learner’s permits.
“It’s one of the most horrific crimes in the history of America,” Finkelstein said in an interview before the FBI’s statement. “Everybody was on notice. Every system should’ve been alerted, and not one of the systems did one thing. … This should not have happened and it didn’t have to happen.”
Since the Parkland massacre, authorities have faced scrutiny over both the ominous warnings that were missed and what, if anything, the country was doing to keep its children safe after yet another school shooting. Other campuses around the country were on edge after Douglas, an anxiety fueled by copycat threats that spread on social media networks.
Police say Cruz admitted that he walked into the school that had expelled him and fired bullet after bullet into classrooms and hallways on Wednesday.
The hail of gunfire lasted for just a few minutes, police said. When it was over, 14 students and three staffers were dead, and others were injured, some critically. The victims included a student who had recently gotten into the state’s flagship college, a senior who had just gained U.S. citizenship and a football coach who was working at his alma mater. Nine were male, eight were female.
[ Five crucial minutes: How the shooting unfolded ]
Parkland became a community — another community — shattered by gun violence, joining the grim list of cities including Columbine, Newtown, Aurora and Sutherland Springs, among many others.
“It has always been my dream to live in this neighborhood,” said Tiffany Matthews, 42, who works at a gas station a few miles from the school. “The schools, everything here is just so nice. But even here it’s dangerous to just go to school.”
People who knew him described Cruz as having a troubled life filled with unnerving behavior, suggestions of violence and repeated brushes with law enforcement. Neighbors said that police cruisers were a frequent presence at his house. Some saw a teenager trying to work through a dark period in his life, while others saw a growing malevolence.
“People were afraid of him,” said Brody Speno, 19, who grew up on the same block as Cruz.
Malcolm Roxburgh, a longtime neighbor of Cruz’s who lived just three houses down, said: “Just about everybody on this part of the street had a run-in with him.”
After getting to high school, Cruz started selling knives out of a lunchbox, posting on Instagram about guns and killing animals, and eventually “going after one of my friends, threatening her,” said Dakota Mutchler, 17, who attended middle school with him.
[ Comment drew notice: ‘Im going to be a professional school shooter’ ]
Cruz was expelled from Douglas for disciplinary reasons, school officials said, though they did not elaborate.
The FBI, even before its revelation Friday, also had a near-brush with Cruz after receiving a tip about a comment threatening a school shooting. It was posted by a YouTube user with his name. Investigators looked into the comment but were unable to determine who wrote it, the FBI said this week. Officials now believe he wrote it.
‘We cannot accept this’: Florida shooting prompts emotional TV reactions
Emotional interviews played out on TV news, following the deaths of at least 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)
Finkelstein, who sent his two children to school in South Florida, said the Douglas shooting is “devastating” and will leave Broward County “changed forever as a result of this.”
While he has no doubts about Cruz’s guilt, Finkelstein argued that the 19-year-old should be spared a potential death sentence for one of the country’s deadliest school shootings because of all the missed red flags that marked his path back to Douglas.
“What a jury is going to have to answer for themselves is whether we as a community, when we as a village, ignore every sign, every scream for help from a sick child who eventually falls off the grid and does what he feared we would do, do we forfeit our right to kill him?” he said.
Prosecutors have not said yet whether they will seek a death sentence for Cruz. A spokeswoman for the State Attorney’s office in Broward, which is prosecuting him, said no decision had been made yet about seeking the death penalty, though Finkelstein said he expects they will do so.
[ No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in 2018. That number is flat wrong. ]
According to police, Cruz traveled to the school on Wednesday afternoon not long before the final bell rang. They said he Cruz fired an AR-15 assault-style rifle for a few minutes before dropping the weapon and his extra ammunition and escaping the school by blending in with students fleeing the chaos. He went to a Walmart, bought a drink, sat at a McDonald’s and walked into a residential area on foot, where he was captured, police said.
The investigation into what happened is still relatively new, but authorities had already interviewed more than 2,000 people, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.
He also said they hope to speak to unnamed others who “might enlighten us as to why he did what he did,” Israel said, though he emphasized that a day into the investigation, police did not believe Cruz had any accomplices.
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What we know about the suspected Florida school shooter
Nikolas Cruz, 19, is the man suspected of fatally shooting at least 17 people at a South Florida high school on Feb. 14. Here's what you should know. (The Washington Post)
President Trump and others have tried to steer the aftermath of the Parkland shooting away from gun control measures, although some Democrats, along with teenagers who survived the attack, have pushed back against that.
Some of the loudest voices pleading for more to be done are the children who were at Douglas and lived, who have been demanding to know why the adults running the country have not done more to help prevent similar tragedies. Others have been parents of those who survived or those who lost their lives.
“President Trump, please do something!” Lori Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa was killed, said in emotional remarks broadcast on CNN. “Do something. Action! We need it now! These kids need safety now!”
Renae Merle in Parkland, Fla., and Brian Murphy, Devlin Barrett, Emma Brown, David Nakamura, Julie Tate and William Wan in Washington contributed to this report.
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