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Judge Rejects Officer’s Claim of No ‘Duty’ to Protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The resource officer who failed to confront alleged mass murderer Nikolas Cruz on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida last February asked a judge to find he had no legal duty to protect the students and faculty from any harm, but his argument was rejected and a wrongful death lawsuit filed against him will move forward, CBS WFOR reports. “There isn’t a common law duty and never had been for a private person to protect others from the violence of 3rd parties,” argued Scot Peterson’s attorney,…

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