by Tim Brown, Freedom OutPost:

Peterson lost his job and will have to live with the consequences of his action and inaction that occurred in those seven minutes the rest of his life.

The disgraced Parkland school resource officer, formerly of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Scot Peterson, finally broke his silence in an interview with The Washington Post earlier this week. Clearly, he lives with the memory of his inaction to protect those who were killed but claims that he wasn’t just doing nothing and rejected the claims that he is a coward.

After being in virtual hiding for three months, Peterson finally gave an interview to The Washington Post.

Peterson rejects the claims that he is a coward and a failure and that that fateful day in February “haunts” him.

“How can they keep saying I did nothing?” he said. “I’m getting on the radio to call in the shooting. I’m locking down the school. I’m clearing kids out of the courtyard. They have the video and the call logs. The evidence is sitting right there.”

Peterson was also interviewed for NBC’s Today Show.

Now, it seems clear that he was doing those things for sure and he’s not omniscient in determining where the shooter would have been or even what he looked like given that one teacher claims he was in full metal garb, though he was arrested in casual clothing.

“It’s haunting,” Peterson said. “I’ve cut that day up a thousand ways with a million different what-if scenarios, but the bottom line is I was there to protect, and I lost 17.”

While friends told him it was not all on him, Peterson responded, “But that’s the perception. You’re a hero or a coward, and that’s it.”

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