“The school resource officer, who cowered behind a wall and let my peers die, has finally been held accountable. For those who don’t know, this man literally stood outside a building and knew there was a shooter, knew he saw the rifle bag, he heard the shots. He was armed and he didn’t act. It was his job to go into the building and save my peers. Because of him, 17 of my peers were murdered.”

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