Why didn't Parkland's 'coward' cop go inside during the school shooting? He asks himself the same question.

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published 4 June 2018

As a school resource officer, it was Scot Peterson's job to protect the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

But the school's only armed guard didn't go inside the building when a shooter struck the Parkland, Florida, school, and he told The Washington Post in an interview published Monday that he's still trying to figure out why.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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