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 “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 –<\/p>\n 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":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[4410,109],"yoast_head":"\n