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oberliner

(58,724 posts) Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:31 PM Jun 2018

Stoneman Douglas school guard had sexually harassed massacre victim, family says

PARKLAND, Fla. -- An unarmed security monitor who critics say could have stopped the Florida high school massacre was suspended last year for sexually harassing two female students, with one of them later dying in February's shooting, her family told CBS Miami. The father and brother of Meadow Pollack say she was one of two girls Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School security monitor Andrew Medina harassed last year. Medina was suspended for three days, even though a disciplinary panel recommended he be fired, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Andrew Pollack and his 20-year-old son, Hunter, said they didn't learn until after the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 dead that Meadow and her mother had reported Medina, now 39, to Stoneman Douglas officials. Andrew Pollack said his ex-wife didn't tell them "because she knew I would have handled it."

"I wouldn't have just let it go."

Hunter Pollack said a Broward school investigator gave him the details after the shooting.

"Every day more incompetence gets exposed," said Andrew Pollack, an outspoken critic of how Broward County school officials and sheriff's deputies dealt with suspect Nikolas Cruz before the shooting. Medina "should have been fired a long time ago."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parkland-florida-massacre-school-guard-andrew-medina-harassed-victim-meadow-pollack-family

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Stoneman Douglas school guard had sexually harassed massacre victim, family says (Original Post) oberliner Jun 2018 OP

Stoneman Douglas security guards fired by Broward school board Ptah Jun 2018 #1

Medina should have been fired sooner oberliner Jun 2018 #3

Definitely. Ptah Jun 2018 #4

Aw, Meadow... What a lovely name. n/t Hugin Jun 2018 #2

Ptah

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1. Stoneman Douglas security guards fired by Broward school board

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:03 PM

Jun 2018

PARKLAND, Fla. - Two security guards at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have been fired for their alleged inaction during the Feb. 14 shootings that left 17 people dead.

Broward County School Board Superintendent Robert Runcie pulled the names of David Taylor and Andrew Medina from the reassignment list.

Medina, who also served as a baseball coach at the school, was the first person to see shooter Nikolas Cruz enter school grounds on the day of the shooting.

In interviews with law enforcement officials, Medina later said he knew Cruz was trying to enter the building but did not confront him or issue an alert which would have locked down the school. Medina later retracted some of his statements, claiming Cruz was too far away to be identified.

https://www.local10.com/news/parkland-school-shooting/stoneman-douglas-security-guards-fired-by-broward-school-board