{"id":404009,"date":"2018-02-24T06:19:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T06:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404009"},"modified":"2018-02-23T20:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:21:11","slug":"trump-suggests-florida-officer-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404009","title":{"rendered":"Trump suggests Florida officer was a ‘coward’"},"content":{"rendered":"

An armed officer who stood outside a Florida school where a gunman killed 17 people last week “certainly did a poor job”, US President Donald Trump says.<\/p>\n

Deputy Scot Peterson resigned after an investigation found he failed to confront the suspect.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump said Mr Peterson might be a “coward” who “didn’t react properly under pressure”.<\/p>\n

Florida’s governor meanwhile called for law enforcement officers to be placed in every public school in the state.<\/p>\n

What did Trump say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Friday morning, President Trump criticised the police officer who did not confront the perpetrator of the 14 February massacre in Parkland, Florida.<\/p>\n

“He trained his whole life but when it came time to do something he didn’t have the courage,” he said.<\/p>\n

“He certainly did a poor job.”<\/p>\n

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“But that’s a case where somebody was outside, they’re trained, they didn’t react properly under pressure or they were coward,” he added.<\/p>\n

The Republican president later touted his love for gun rights on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) in Maryland.<\/p>\n

He again proposed arming teachers as a solution to school safety, a method long championed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) gun lobby.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An armed officer who stood outside a Florida school where a gunman killed 17 people last week “certainly did a poor job”, US President Donald Trump says. Deputy Scot Peterson resigned after an investigation found he failed to confront the suspect. Mr Trump said Mr Peterson might be a “coward” who “didn’t react properly under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":403441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[4410,109],"class_list":["post-404009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-anti-trump-protest","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}