Parkland Massacre Puzzle

By Rachel Tobias

February 14 2018, an alleged mass shooting occurred at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High
school in Parkland Florida. 19 year old Nikolas Cruz, a former student was arrested at the site
and accused of carrying out the tragedy. This paper provides a basis of what we do know based
on Police statements, student and teacher testimony, video footage taken from inside the
school as well as news reports. I also want to specifically focus on one room in particular, room
1214.

Here is the official timeline of the event, as per the Broward Sherriff’s Office
https://www.sheriff.org/PIO/News/Pages/STONEMAN-DOUGLAS-SHOOTING-TIMELINE-
OF-EVENTS-.aspx

February 14, 2018

2:06 Uber picks up suspect.

2:19 Uber drops off suspect at Stoneman Douglas High School.

2:21 Suspect enters East stairwell of Building 12 with rifle inside a black, soft rifle case.

2:21:30 Suspect exits stairwell with rifle out removed from the rifle case.

2:21:33 Suspect has rifle ready and begins shooting into rooms 1215, 1216, 1214, back to 1216,
back to 1215 and then to 1213. Suspect then takes the West stairwell to 2nd floor and shoots
victim in room 1234

2:24:39 Suspect takes the East stairwell to the 3rd floor.

2:27:37 Suspect enters 3rd floor stairwell, drops rifle and backpack and runs down the stairs.

2:28:35 Suspect exits Building 12 and runs west towards the tennis courts and then heads south.

2:29:51 Suspect crosses field and runs west with others who are fleeing the area.

2:50 Suspect arrives at the Walmart, enters the store and buys a drink at the Subway, then leaves
on foot.

3:01 Suspect goes to McDonalds, sits down for a short time, and then leaves on foot.

3:41 Suspect is detained at 4700 Wyndham Lakes Dr., Coral Springs by an officer from Coconut
Creek PD. A show up is conducted at that location by BSO homicide detectives. He is positively
identified and taken into custody.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/96960910-132.html

An animation presented during a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission
meeting shows the reported timeline of Nikolas Cruz's actions inside the school on February 14, 2018.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/florida-school-
shooting/?utm_term=.c4b8e7f52425
Here is a list of people who are claimed to be dead. Exactly where they died I tried to piece together
from various news articles and student testimony, which I have posted within this paper.

1) Carmen Schentrup, 16- died room 1213

2) Nicholas Dworet, 17-Room 1214
3) Helena Ramsay, 17-Room 1214
4) Alyssa Alhadeff, 14- room 1216
5) Alex Schachter, 14-1216
6) Meadow Pollack, 18- Dad says 3rd floor? Shot 9 times?
7) Jaime Guttenberg 14-?
8) Cara Loughran, 14-?
9) Luke Hoyer, 15- Hallway
10) Gina Montalto, 14-Hallway
11) Joaquin Oliver, 17-?
12) Alaina Petty, 14-?
13) Aaron Feis, 37-Other kind of Hallway
14) Chris Hixon, 49-Other kind of Hallway
15) Peter Wang, 15-Holding open a door
16) Scott Beigel, 35 -killed after he unlocked a classroom?
17) Martin Duque Anguiano-?

*There is already an inconsistency in the timelines, revolving around who was shot and where
and what floor people died on.
https://www.local10.com/news/parkland-school-shooting/who-were-the-victims-of-the-parkland-school-shooting

If you feel like seeing cops throwing a heavy bag into an unmarked van:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxla2Sm0yG4
The first thing I want to focus on is any testimony claiming that Cruz was at the scene of the crime. The
BSO timeline and mainstream media show he walked past a “Chabad House” that caught him on tape
right before his arrest:

https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/3947080/jewish/Security-Cameras-at-Chabad-Center-
Helped-Track-Shooter-After-Attack.htm

A security camera at the Chai Center Chabad in Coral Springs, Fla., captured Nikolas Cruz, 19, walking
down the street towards a fast-food restaurant after allegedly killing 17 people at a public high school.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article209356519.html

Confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz is arrested on Feb. 14 after the massacre at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Josh Cohen
What we have regarding testimony from students and teachers is a mix and a bit all over the
place. Some say they identified him right away, others claim that he was the shooter but wore a
hat and glasses and a face mask.

1) Ernest Rospierski- Teacher “19 Year old man was trouble. I didn’t know that at the time cuz he
had a mask on so I didn’t know who it was. I just saw a guy with a gun shooting up my
kids…”
Associated Press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAN4g66RFug

2) Stacey Lippel- Teacher ”I saw the shooter emerge from the stairwell and stand very firmly at
the front of the hall, about 20 feet from me… He had on a helmet, gas mask and what I thought
was a bulletproof vest that held ammunition. All I know is that he looked like a MAN with a
very menacing weapon in his hand… When the SWAT team arrived, I still didn’t get up to open
the door. What if it’s the shooter? They barged in, pointed their guns at us and ordered us to
put our hands up in the air just in case the shooter was among us. One of the men pointed at
me and asked, “Teacher?” I said “Yes,” and he asked me to make sure my students didn’t look
down as we left the classroom. I stood up and immediately saw the body of Scott Beigel on the
ground. I couldn’t process that he was dead until a student looked at him
and screamed. I went into teacher mode and ordered her to look up. We stepped out of the
classroom and saw carnage everywhere. There were bullet casings, smoke, shattered glass,
blood and bodies throughout the hallway.”
http://neatoday.org/2018/03/20/stacey-lippel-testimony/
https://abcnews.go.com/video/embed?id=53240314

3) Alexa Miednik-student claims she ran into Cruz in a hallway just standing around (does not
mention gun or gear). Claims more than one shooter.
https://twitter.com/KHOUSportsMatt/status/963972590258806785

4) Student (don’t know her name): A student witness to the mass shooting event at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida states to a reporter from KPRC TV news that
there were three shooters involved in the mass shooting event.

At the 0:01 second mark the student witness states "They told all the kids to go outside so they
could start shooting up, so they started shooting from the first floor up because there is only
two exits in the building so everybody started running to the other exits and thats when the
shooter, the other shooter started coming up".

At 0:35 second mark the witness states "they started yelling at us to keep focused and pay
attention ahead, the army people, cause they didn't want us to see the bodies they hid in the
corner. They were putting mats over them so we wouldn't see them. There was dust all over
the floor from this weird stuff (obscure word) they threw in there."

At 0:49 second mark the reporter asks, "Do you think there was more than one shooter?"
 Witness response at 0:51 second mark: "There was three shooters, (obscure word), definitely".

At the 1:53 mark she states "You could see a bunch of kids just going down that way, but
stopping because the other shooter was coming"

At the 2:16 mark the reporter states "One student told me that the shooter was wearing a
bulletproof vest and a helmet, did you see that?"

Student response: 'I saw some other kid, who, when, the other kid who came into the classroom
was wearing some type of thing and what I don't know"
https://d.tube/#!/v/clarityofsignal/3fog4wv2 (credit to Clarityofsignal on dtube)

It’s a bit odd given the timeline from BSO that Cruz would have shown up to the building, put on a mask
and body armor and all of this equipment, shot as many students as he did, shed all of it and leave the
building in under 10 minutes. I do take into consideration chaos and confusion. That being said, find it
also very odd the accounts of those that couldn’t even see his face and were later told it was Cruz.

Continuing on, I want to bring up some video footage that we DO have. This is a link to student Ericka
Duval’s Instagram account. It shows Teacher Ashley Kurth with her students hiding in a classroom. She
confirming the video is of his wife)
Links to Erick’s videos: https://www.instagram.com/p/BfMYrtmgz4P/?taken-by=erickaduval

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfMgjDpgUHT/?taken-by=erickaduval

Erick claims this is happening at 2:30pm

It’s an odd video that shows police in the hallway breaking through the window then barging in.

(Background on teacher: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/23/florida-school-shooting-

parkland-teachers-impossible-choice

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-not-real-news-school-shooting-student-20180330-story.html

David Hogg talking about how he thought it was a drill. In his own videos he never mentions the cops
breaking the window. Feel free to go find his videos. They are so edited it’s difficult to use them for
anything.
Here is a link to a news site that shows a classroom with a shattered window. Note we don’t see bullet
holes everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzWE0o9QUcA

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/florida-shooting-survivor-praises-school-response-warns-
people/story?id=53108063

We have a video from a youtube account Lulii Ibrahim published on April 3, 2018. I have no idea where
else to find this video. It’s one of the few videos we have that shows a classroom along with the hallway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA7TPOMnEVM&feature=youtu.be&a=

(If you want a different angle, here is https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4fe_1518811177)

We hear a cop shouting “Alright guys- three down, three injured.” (I take this as an instructional tone.)
Then he yells “Is anybody injured? Is anybody shot?” Which is super odd. (Note that we do see flowers
on the desk indicating this was taken on FEB 14 and not some other day)
We see a cop carrying a kid and asking for help and the other officer has no problem grabbing the kid by
the “injured” arm. The blood shown is a bright red color.

We have this “girl” on the floor who appears to be missing an arm and whose legs look oddly bent.
Again, the “blood” is a bright red color and she appears to be dark skinned. There are no dark skinned
ladies as victims on the list I had provided earlier. The closest would have been Helena but this is not
room 1214 where Helena died. I am skipping ahead a bit.

In the hallway, we have: A bunch of cops with guns and some “bodies” (which would have been Alex and
Gina.) No blood, no rifle cartridges, no smoke.
Odd legs you got there- the foot is twisted?

Where are his shoes?

You didn’t use gloves and got “blood” on you

And what the fuck is all this gear in the hallway? Are those supposed to be “student back packs” because
they are all black or dark colors
Here is Melody ball, claiming her little brother (a student) sent her this video of the MOMENT swat team
busts in. What is great is we hear the team get ready and say “I’m good if you guys are..you guys ready?”
A girl is on her phone about to record. This is supposed to be the moment in the shooting where the swat
teams evacuate the rooms. It feels very staged and not “impromptu”.
https://twitter.com/Melody_Ball/status/963899789070028800

Here is a link to a video of kids and army? People in an auditorium:

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/entertainment/social-media-reacts-mass-shooting-marjory-stoneman-
douglas-high-school-parkland/JHuLX4jBU4mrf6zChJaMCP/
Continuing on, I want to cover Room 1214 which was Holocaust studies room. First, I will gather as
much student testimony together as possible.

Here is student Stephany DeOliveira that complied a list of student witness accounts:

https://twitter.com/ohstephany_/status/978709122613903361

Here she herself is interviewed by the Sun Sentinel: http://www.sun-

sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-school-shooting-ptsd-shot-up-
classrooms-20180327-story.html

There are a ton of documented accounts on there, but what I want to focus is on Room 1214. Room 1214
is where (according to the timeline shown at the start) two students died (Helena Ramsey and Nicholas
Dworet) and 4-6 were injured. Here is a list of the people that claimed to have been in that room:

1) Ally Allen
2) Amanda Edwards-Berlingeri
3) Hailey Stark
4) Kaitly J (who I will mention again later)
5) Sid Fischer
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-
school-shooting-ptsd-shot-up-classrooms-20180327-story.html

Sid Fischer: “Where I was hiding…and then I think about Daniella and the other injured
getting up and walking out of the class. I think about me walking out of the class and having to
step over Luke’s body…”

Daniela: “I play paintball before and I know the pain and I was like wow, you’re hitting us with
paintballs and I was like this is hurting more than a paintball. When I went into the position that
I was in for most of the time (shows Matt’s snapchat clip but with sad faces over it) I started
looking at my pants and they were full of blood. It gets me really scared every time I hear a loud
noise…”

Sid Fischer

A rebirth
At 17, Sid Fischer had never contemplated his death before.

Today, he wonders what his funeral would have been like.

“I think about my friends, my family and how incomplete my life is so far, and how my
future could have just been erased,” said Fischer, who was in the Holocaust history
class. “As soon as those bullets stopped ringing in our room, I was like, why us? … Why
were we chosen?”

Like Menescal, he keeps coming back to images: the blood and bullets on the floor; the
walking wounded getting up for help; fellow student Luke Hoyer’s body in the hallway
outside his classroom.

“Those first seven to 10 shots do rattle through my mind, and then as soon as that
happens I start adding detail,” Fischer said. “Once one memory of the event occurs, all
of them kind of join together.”
Even a happy occasion — a surprise visit from Miami Heat basketball star Dwyane Wade
on March 7 — unnerved him. The collective cries of surprised students, albeit joyful
ones, had him looking for the exits.

“I got up in a panic ... and I was ready to run,” he said. “Two counselors saw me and they
came over and comforted me because they knew I was going through trauma.”

After the six-minute, 20-second rampage, Fischer may have walked out of the school
unscathed, he said, but he feels shattered inside.

His head is clouded with thoughts of the shooting — he misses having a clear mind. The
torrent of thoughts is so great he sometimes gets headaches, he said. He wonders
whether he’ll be the happy kid he was before Feb. 14.

He recalls glancing back at the school that day, as he ran away to safety after the
massacre.

That moment, he realized, was his rebirth.

“Through those walls, I noticed that there’s probably my old self just sitting there in that
corner still thinking about if I’m going to live or die.”

6) Dylan Kraemer

Link: http://people.com/crime/parkland-school-shooting-survivor-student-dylan-kraemer/

Parkland Survivor Dylan Kraemer, 17, Shares Horror of Watching Classmates Massacred Next to Him
ELAINE ARADILLAS and JEFF VESPA March 07, 2018 07:00 AM

Dylan Kraemer, a 17-year-old junior at the school, was in history class on Feb. 14 when his room was
punctured by bullets.

“I was sitting in last period, fourth period in history of the holocaust, classroom 1214 on the first floor of
the freshman building. With about 20 minutes of class left, I heard the first shots I ever heard in my life of
a gun, which was the AR-15. And my class started to panic, most kids ran to one side away from the door.
Me and about 8 other kids ran to the corner in clear sight of the door and moved a file cabinet to protect
me and my classmates as best we could and we all huddled behind it and we..I looked behind the corner
of the file cabinet to see the shooter and the he, me and him made eye contact and he looked towards my
way and then started firing rounds into my classroom and I just heard the window break was extremely
loud I heard, I’ve never heard something like that the loudest sound I ever heard. Then I looked to my
right side to see one of my friends Nick Dworet was dead. Another girl, Helena Ramsay was also dead
and the girl next to me was skimmed with bullets a couple times. The two girls next to me were also shot

one in the back of the leg and I think one in the forehead, was like, skimmed. And I called the police. I
texted both my parents what easily could have been my last text to my parents. I told them I loved them
both and I sat there and pretty much waited in fear for the police to come and after about 12 minutes on
the phone with the police, I heard cops in the hallway. We screamed, they came towards my room. And I
looked around the corner to make sure It was cops and not the shooter. It was and they finally came in
they got out everyone that was injured first and then they told us to leave and they basically had the doors
held open and there was 6 guys outside my door, 10 atleast holding their guns in like a row then there was
a lot in the hallways and they said run and run as fast as I could run for my life so I did and I luckily got
out that day, you know just in the hallway I saw 2 bodies. I had to step over the glass, there was blood
bullets the smell will never leave my mouth my nose its so distinct and just be there forever pretty much.
He was just shooting through the window he did not come into any doors in the school if he did it would
have been way worse. Luckily all the doors were locked, my door was locked so he was just shooting
through our- there’s a window in every door which is not bullet proof, clearly, and it’s a tall skinny
window and that’s just what he was shooting through and he was just firing bullets through it so I
basically just saw his gun barrel just firing rounds towards me and my classmates and I saw
computers get hit, the wall, the window behind me get hit um and then my two classmates. I did
know him, not immediately I didn’t notice it was him, I was not surprised that it was him. Pretty
much anyone that did know him was surprised; I went to middle school with him and we all knew him
since then and I used to know his little brother, who I used to be friends with. Well I saw the face of
the shooter but it didn’t look like him because I haven’t seen him since 7 th grade and he was also
wearing glasses and a hat, so I couldn’t really see his face and I was really paying more attention to he
gun and I was in such shock I wasn’t even trying to identify who it was, I was just realizing it was real. A
lot of people thought it was a drill. Actually, I ended up going back to the two classes that surround mine
room 1215 and 1216. Apparently as I’ve heard many times from students and the media apparently he
didn’t come back to me and if he could of we were still exposed easily he could have easily gotten many
more in my classroom because we hadn’t moved, we were still in the corner that was completely diagonal
from the door where is the only thing you could actually see through that window. I was in complete sight
of the shooter as were my friends. I just want people to know how real this is because it doesn’t affect
people really if they aren’t in that town. It’s like such a real thing and it’s been happening just more and
more it’s like not even surprising when this happens anymore and that’s not how it should be anywhere
and I just want people to know this needs to change and gun laws need to change and background checks
need to change and schools need to be safer, you know stuff like that pretty much. Never forget this, this
should have never happened it already did and it should at least be the last one and hopefully I think it
will be. Everyone who wasn’t affected by this, they just go on with their daily lives. They still go to work,
they go to school and their doing everything but me and my classmates are just, it’s still with us it’s never
going to leave us. It’s like a thing I will have forever my story forever, I got a tattoo for my classmates as
did a lot of people so it could never leave me. I don’t want it to, because it’s such a serious thing it’s a
part of my life now. It’s a whole new normal. Everything before Wednesday feels like a different life
before what it is now…

7) Teacher Ivy Schamis:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-sb-
florida-school-shooting-stoneman-teachers-20180216-story.html

Blood and bullets won't stop teacher's passion for classroom- Linda TrischittaContact
ReporterSun Sentinel feb 16, 2018

Social Studies teacher Ivy Schamis was wrapping up a lesson on the Holocaust for her 30
students when death left the pages of their work and confronted the class at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School.

“We heard ‘Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!,’ right outside of the door,” Schamis said
Friday about her first floor classroom.

The AR-15’s bullets flew through the glass panel of her classroom door, “and hit six
students, two of them he fatally wounded,” Schamis said Friday. “At the time it was so
chaotic, I think we didn’t know that Helena [Ramsay] and Nick [Dworet] were killed.”

But Schamis said the gunfire and blood that scarred her classroom and everyone who was
inside will not change her passion for teaching.

“I want to go back in there badly,” Schamis said. “I love my class and I love my classroom.”

Authorities were not letting faculty back in the school, she and English teacher Darren Levine
said. On Friday afteroon, the colleagues were leaning on each other, coping together as they tried
to explain what everyone connected to the school has endured.

It’s unbelievable,” Levine said. “We can’t wrap our heads around this.”

So that Schamis never has to experience those feelings of panic, loss and helplessness again, she
offered, “How about a 19-year-old not being able to get an AR-15? A mentally ill or mentally
well person, I don’t care who you are, should not have an AR-15.
“We’re learning how to eradicate hate in a Holocaust class and this,” she paused, “comes into
our classroom? It was ironic.”

Levine, a proud member of Stoneman Douglas’ Class of 2002 who has taught there for a decade
said, “A person doesn’t need to have an AR-15. Nobody goes hunting with that kind of weapon.
They go hunting for people with that weapon.”

He’s trying to keep hopelessness away and was also wondering if society will take steps to
prevent terror from visiting other classrooms.

“We can demand action all we want,” Levine said. “There have been more than dozens of
occasions where people demand action and no action has been taken. I hope we see action. But
all we continue to see is these kinds of events. It doesn’t make sense.”

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-
school-shooting-holocaust-teacher-20180320-story.html

Stoneman Douglas teacher gets $1,000 to keep Holocaust lessons alive

Lois K. SolomonContact Reporter

March 20 2018

s Holocaust studies teacher Ivy Schamis was finishing a lesson on the dangers
of irrational hatred, shots flew through her classroom door.

Students ran for the perimeter of her classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland. Two were killed and six wounded.

A month after the shootings, she still finds the irony of teaching that lesson
that day “chilling.”

“I think about it constantly,” Schamis said. “We were doing a lesson on

combating hate.’’
The lessons she tried to convey are again being taught, but this time without
needed supplies that remain locked up in a building she and her students can
no longer enter.

To help her, the Weston-based Holocaust Learning and Education Fund has donated $1,000 to
replenish the missing material. The charity encourages Holocaust studies throughout the United
States.

Craig Weiner, the fund’s president, said he got the chills when he learned shooter Nikolas Cruz
left at least 180 rounds of ammunition inside magazines that bore Nazi swastikas at the school.

“This is why it’s so important not only to study the Holocaust, but to learn from the Holocaust,”
Weiner said. “There is so much hatred that has permeated our society. It’s disgusting when you
think about it.”

On Feb. 14, Schamis was finishing a lesson with her fourth-period class on Margaret Bergmann
Lampert, a German athlete excluded from the 1936 Berlin Olympics because she was Jewish.

The teacher and her students were in Schamis’s classroom of 17 years, room 1214, in the
building targeted by Cruz.

Her 30 students were answering questions on a computer. There were 20 minutes left to class.
She heard shots in the hallway.

Students flew out of their seats and headed to the classroom’s sides. Shots came through the
classroom door’s glass panel.

She said everyone hovered and tried to be quiet. Two students were killed, Helena Ramsey and
Nick Dworet. Six were injured.

A SWAT team entered the classroom within 10 minutes and escorted everyone out.

One of Schamis’s classes had visited Nova Southeastern University’s Holocaust Reflection and
Resource Room, founded by Weiner and his wife, just two weeks before the shooting.
“We were all devastated when we heard about the shootings,” Weiner said.
“We felt it was our responsibility [to help her] because she lost so much.”

Weiner plans to deliver another gift to Schamis later this week: a box of
additional Holocaust education classroom supplies, courtesy of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In the meantime, Schamis said she and her students have become “super
close,” texting several times a day. She took her fourth-period class out for ice
cream a few days ago so they could talk uninhibited outside the school.

“It took a while to get back to normal,” she said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/fl-florida-school-shooting-ptsd-shot-up-classrooms-
20180327-
story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+orlandose
ntinel%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fstate+%28OrlandoSentinel.com+-+State+News%29

Bodies, blood, bullets: What Parkland survivors saw in ambushed classrooms

Erika Pesantes and Susannah BryanContact ReportersSouth Florida Sun Sentinel

April 6 2018

http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/03/26/march-for-our-lives-teacher

Stoneman Douglas Teacher

'Hopeful,' 'Rejuvenated,'
'Inspired' After Weekend
March 09:27
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March 26, 2018Updated Mar 26, 2018 12:20 PM

On what moments stood out

"Emma González was a student of mine. I had her entire freshman year, and I
also have her in Holocaust class, although she was not in the Holocaust class
that was shot into.

On how everything has transpired

"We've been saying this for a long time, and I just think now the world knows
what we've known all of these years: what an unbelievable student body we
have. And everyone at that school seems to be like this, so you can talk to
any of the students and you'll get these same incredible answers and
insightful thoughts. And Samantha Fuentes was sitting close to my desk at
that time when the shooter ambushed us, actually, and that's just how the kids
are at this school

On handling criticism and skepticism

"I was there. I was in the classroom cowering in the corner with my students.
Sid Fischer's next to me going, 'Mrs. Schamis, are we going to die today?' So
they're not crisis actors. They were there and they saw all of this. We were
ambushed. And two kids, two awesome, awesome, amazing students with the
brightest future were killed inside my classroom. There is no way they are
crisis actors, and we're telling them just to ignore all of the criticism, because
if we pay attention to it, then it continues. So that's impossible. It was
impossible to do CPR on a student that was just riddled with bullets from an
AR-15. Impossible."

On the argument that the students are blinded by optimism when it

comes to enacting change

"I think it's time for change. And I think that optimism is what's going to help
them get through all of this. ... I mean, I know it's going to be a tough road,
but I think they're up for it. And this — if anything gave them motivation,
Valentine's Day, 2018, sure did.

IVY SCHAMIS: Within seconds we were all cowering in corners of the class and
looking through that front door and saw that barrel of the gun coming through
and just shooting trying to aim at students in the classroom

IVY SCHAMIS: When the SWAT team came in …They just said "run." … Run and
put your hands up and run. And don't look down.
http://www.lockportjournal.com/news/inseparable-friends-now-even-closer-after-school-
shooting/article_979b4724-fd38-5fd0-a3b9-cb7679e5adcc.html

8) Daniela Menescal
https://www.local10.com/news/parkland-school-
shooting/i-forgive-him-parkland-school-shooting-
survivor-says-
Daniela Menescal said she thought it was all a drill until the moment bullet fragments slammed into her
back and leg

Daniela Menescal said she thought it was all a drill until the moment bullet fragments slammed
into her back and leg.

"He broke the window in the door and he -- I guess he started shooting as he could," she said.

Inside her locked classroom, the 11th grade student said she and other students hid behind a
metal cabinet as gunfire sprayed the room.

"I saw the blood and then the girl who was in front of me, she turned around and I saw her -- she
was hit in her face, and I guess a bullet was in her eye," Menescal said.

Two students in her class didn't survive. She said she still doesn't know how some of the other
students are doing.

In the chaos after the shooting, Menescal and many others were rescued and loaded into
emergency vehicles.

Menescal eventually made it home, bandaged with metal from the bullets still inside of her.

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only when she saw the blood did Daniela Menescal grasp what it meant.

Her blood seeped from her hip and thigh through her white pants; the blood of others
splattered there, too.
She took in the bullet-riddled laptops, the shattered glass and then, just a few feet away,
the image that will always stay with her: the bodies of her two classmates, Nick Dworet
and Helena Ramsay, nestled together, his head on her lap.

“I think about it every day. It’s something that I can’t control.”

At 17 years old, the enormity of the Feb. 14 rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High is hard for her to grapple with. She will always carry tiny bullet fragments
embedded underneath her skin. She hasn’t cried in recent days. Perhaps she is in denial,
she thinks.

Nearly two months after the shooting, images haunt the students and teachers who were
inside the classrooms ambushed that day.

These survivors live with anxiety and fear, sleepless nights and wandering thoughts —
unable to escape the sights, sounds and smells of Feb. 14: The crunch of glass beneath
their feet. Gunsmoke so thick it veiled classrooms. Blood-smeared hallways. The moans
of the wounded.

“What stays with me is hearing one of my classmates cry for help,” said Stephany De
Oliveira, a senior in Room 1213, on the first floor across the hall from Menescal’s class.
Four students were shot in Room 1213 and one died.

Memories of Carmen Schentrup lying lifeless on the classroom floor torment De

Oliveira. She doesn’t want to remember her that way, but instead as the genuine and
intelligent girl she was. They had known each other for years, sharing classes and
walking to the bus together.

“That’s been really hard knowing that we were the very few who saw her in her final
moments, and we couldn’t do anything,” said De Oliveira, 18. “Everybody’s been telling
me it’s survivor’s guilt, but it’s very real, and it’s not going away anytime
soon.”Survivors unite
After the shooting, Room 1214 created a text group, in search of comfort from those who
heard the same gunfire, saw the same bloodshed and feared for their lives in the very
same space.

The 30 Holocaust history students and their teachers lean on each other day and night.

Texts sometimes ping at 1 or 2 a.m. “Is anyone up?”

It’s easier than waking parents in the middle of the night when visions of the shooting
flood their heads. They’re not alone.

“We’re outspoken, there’s no filter,” said Sid Fischer, a junior in that class.

They text “I love you’s” to the group and lend support in other parts of their lives, too. A
classmate’s grandpa died recently and the group gave condolences.

Born in the age of the smartphone, Parkland students also vent and grieve through
social media. They blast their chilling first-hand accounts of classrooms under fire to
massive audiences.

De Oliveira shares her feelings on Twitter: “We were told to get up and run for our lives.
When we got up from behind the desk, two bodies of my classmates laid there, lifeless or
unconscious. I was in disbelief but mostly feeling guilt,” she said in a recent post.

“When running out into the hallway, I step on glass, bullet shells, and blood. The sense
of guilt came even stronger when I had to run by two more lifeless bodies in the hallway,
having no choice but to, once again, leave them behind.”

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-
florida-school-shooting-ptsd-shot-up-classrooms-20180327-story.html
9) Rebecca Bogart, 17, from Room 1214, said it’s been hard to find peace
since that day — not even in her usual spot in the Everglades, where she has always gone
to catch the sunsets and unwind. There, the sound of a car one day, possibly backfiring,
drove her to tears.

“It sounded like three gunshots to me cause the sound it made was really loud,” she said.
“I didn’t even see the car and I [was] just sort of freaking out and started crying, called
my dad, and I was scared.”

Her dad offered to come pick her up, but she regained her composure: “I said, ‘I’ll be
fine.’”

But how long does it take to truly be fine? It’s too soon to tell for Parkland students.

It took about eight years for most of the Columbine students to move past the tragedy,
said New York-based author Dave Cullen, who spent 10 years writing a book about the
Colorado school shooting.

“The morning after, it was pretty shocking,” Cullen said. “They literally changed
overnight. They entered the numb phase of PTSD.

“By year eight, they were telling me they were really ready to be done with it, and it no
longer defined them.”

But the parents who lost children, he said, “really never got over it.”

http://www.lockportjournal.com/news/inseparable-friends-now-even-closer-after-school-
shooting/article_979b4724-fd38-5fd0-a3b9-cb7679e5adcc.html

6 inseparable friends now even closer after school shooting

 PARKLAND: The group attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School.

 By JASON DEAREN The Associated Press

 Feb 17, 2018

10)JOHNATHAN BLANK ,,
PARKLAND, Fla. — It was the final period of the day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High and Jonathan Blank was in history class, learning about the Holocaust. Across
campus, five of his friends, pals since grade school, sat in different classrooms watching
the clock. In 19 minutes, school would be out and the buddies had plans this Valentine's
Day: a little basketball and boys' time.

Inside classroom 1214, the clock hit 2:21 p.m. Then: POP! POP! POP!

nstinctively, 16-year-old Jonathan hit the ground, taking cover under his desk. He
smelled the chemical stench of gunpowder, noticed sawdust particles floating in the air:
pieces of the classroom door that had been splintered by shots. Around the room, his
schoolmates covered themselves with textbooks and took shelter behind filing cabinets.

One girl's face was covered in blood. Nearby, a boy wasn't moving. It struck Jonathan
that he was probably dead.

Beyond the pockmarked door, gunfire sounded up and down the hallway, seesawing
eerily between shots, then silence, shots, then silence. All that broke through the
moments of quiet were horrifying shrieks — along with the groans of Jonathan's
wounded classmates.

The teen thought about texting his parents and of course his best friends, but he'd left
his phone atop his desk and was too frozen with fear to reach up and grab it. Joey,
Noah, John, Sam, Ethan — his band of brothers that had bonded over soccer,
basketball and bar mitzvahs — he had no way of knowing if they were OK or if they, too,
lay dying somewhere, in yet another deadly rampage inside yet another U.S. school.

Back in classroom 1214, in the building where 12 of the 17 victims, most of them
students, would eventually be found, armor-clad officers burst in shouting, "Everyone
put your hands up!" Jonathan raised his hands, sat up, looked around and saw ruin.

After about 10 minutes, the police told the students to get out. Jonathan walked past his
fallen classmates. In the hallway, two more bodies lay between him and the exit. He told
himself not to look.

Outside, now surrounded by sirens and helicopters and sobbing children and parents,
Jonathan texted his mother, who had already rattled off four urgent texts asking if he
was OK. "They shot in my class," he responded. "3 people shot in my class." He would
later learn it was four.

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/16/marjory-stoneman-douglas-student-recalls-mass-
shooting/

PARKLAND (CBSMiami) – “Two people actually did pass away in my class right in front of me.” Those are
the chilling words of 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior Jonathan Blank who
recalled the horrific day 17 people were shot and killed at his school in Parkland.

Jonathan was on the first floor of the freshman building in a Holocaust Studies class when the
bullets started to fly.

“I actually did not hear the alarm; I just heard gunshots go off. Many shots went off and then
right away I tried to take cover, I jumped under a table and hid with two other girls under the
desk,” recalled Jonathan.

He explained many bullets were fired in his classroom.

“I believe 4 people were shot in my class. Two people actually did pass away in my class right in
front of me,” he said.
They were Nicholas Dworet and Helena Ramsey.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/parkland-shooting-survivor-jonathan-blank-hear-noise-
bed/story?id=54105884

He said it all started “out of nowhere.” At first, he said he thought it was “a drill,” but he
immediately “dove … close to the teacher’s desk.”

“Ten seconds later, it came into our class,” Blank remembered. “It came into our class and then
the door … got shot first and glass went everywhere.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/parkland-shooting-survivor-jonathan-blank-hear-noise-
bed/story?id=54105884

11) alayah Eastmond

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/black-parkland-survivor-
aalayah-eastmond-recalls-shooting-nan-article-1.3920455

Gasps echoed through a rapt crowd Saturday as 16-year-old Aalayah Eastmond recalled slipping
beneath the lifeless body of one of her classmates to avoid the bullets.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior shared the horror and heartbreak she
endured with the breathless assembly at the National Action Network’s weekly rally in Harlem.

“I thought it was a paintball gun,” Aalayah said of Nikolas Cruz’s AR-15. “I saw my classmate
slumped over … That’s when I realized it was real.”

The teen survived the terror nearly two months ago by doing the unthinkable.

“I was the student that had to cover herself with one of her dead classmates to survive,” she said.

https://twitter.com/MegynTODAY/status/968490581990215680

Eastmond was in her Holocaust history class when the shooting began and students started to
take cover. She felt “bullets fly by her face,” she recalled. How she survived the terror was due
to quick thinking.

“I immediately thought that he was coming inside so I thought, I told myself I needed to look
like I was dead as well,” she said.

When the student in front of her was hit by a bullet, she collapsed to the floor with him.
“I just followed his every movement and I fell over with him, and then I put him on top of me,
because he was already…” she said as her voice trailed off. “I just told myself I need to look like
I’m dead, because I thought he was coming in to get us all one by one.”

Eastmond called her mother, Stacey-Ann Llewellyn, from her classroom. “I told her I love you
so much, I am sorry for everything bad I did in my life. Please forgive me,” Eastmond said to her
mom.

12)SAMANTHA GRADY
https://www.today.com/news/florida-school-shooting-survivor-recounts-
horrific-scene-classroom-t123254

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F_vdCHlDds&t=4s
Samantha Grady talks about the moments when a gunman opened fire at her Florida
school, killing at least 17 people, including her best friend.
by Beck Schoenfeld and Eun Kyung Kim / Feb.15.2018 / 8:19 AM ET / Source: TODAY

A student injured in a south Florida high school shooting said she used a book to shield herself
from the bullets that flew into her classroom, where she and her best friend huddled with
classmates behind furniture.

Junior Samantha Grady said she was working on an assignment about the Holocaust when she
heard two shots in the hallway. Her best friend pushed her down, and the two then ran toward a
big bookshelf.

“We all kind of huddled there together," she said. "We all clamped really close, tightly together."

Grady said her classroom door was locked but the gunman shot through the glass.

“He shot quite a few bullets into the glass and it hit quite a few students behind me,” she said.

Grady said her best friend yelled at her to grab a book to shield herself.

“We were already situated by the book shelf. She was like, ‘Grab a book, grab a book,’ and so I
took a book. It was a tiny book, but I took a book and I held it up. I believe, maybe, the book
kind of deterred some of the bullets, so it didn’t hit me so badly,” she said. “She was the one who
gave me the idea. She definitely helped me a lot.”

Grady said after she fled the school she hid behind a truck and tried to calm herself down before
calling her parents “because I didn’t want them to go crazy.” She was treated by paramedics and
eventually called her parents while inside an ambulance headed to the hospital, where she
connected with her family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzP0KPgRbAA

13) MATT WALKER

***Matt Walker | Student: I thought it was a drill at first. So I pull out
my phone quickly because I want to record what's going on. And it's
just a coincidence when I started recording that he shot into our class.

Cellphone video of shooting: "Holy s---…Holy sh--! Oh my God! Oh

my God!"
Matt Walker [group interview]: A lot of people have been telling me
that the video really made people realize that this was a terrible
massacre. It made people see what actually happened, And I feel like
that pushed forward to a change.

http://6abc.com/fla-students-hide-as-shots-ring-out-in-horrifying-
video/3085361/

https://twitter.com/billritter7/status/963937345891422208

17 TIMES WE HEAR SHOOTING IN THE INSTAGRAM?

14)SAMANTHA FUENTES
Samantha Fuentes | Survivor: I looked up and I saw him standing at the window.
And he lacked any expression at all actually, which is probably the most
gruesome factor of it all.

Samantha Fuentes was in Ivy Schamis' classroom.

Samantha Fuentes: This entrance wound was from shrapnel. And it was lodged
into my cheek and behind my eyeball. And then this right here which is weird I
can still feel the metal. Here, here, and then all along my cheek is shrapnel. And
then I have multiple sites in my legs

https://www.local10.com/news/parkland-school-shooting/he-had-
absolutely-no-facial-expression-survivor-says-of-parkland-school-shooter

'He had absolutely no facial expression,'

survivor says of Parkland school shooter
Samantha Fuentes has shrapnel in her face, both legs
By Terrell Forney - Reporter, Andrea Torres - Digital Reporter/Producer

Posted: 6:02 PM, February 22, 2018

he 18-year-old senior was inside building 12's classroom 1214 when former student Nikolas
Cruz, whom authorities said confessed to the shooting, started to fire his AR-15 semiautomatic
rifle at classrooms 1215 and 1216. He moved on to her classroom next.

Fuentes said the Valentine's Day shooting interrupted a conversation about hate groups and the
history of the Holocaust. She said she was able to identify Cruz as he aimed a weapon that he
was able to purchase legally when he was 18 years old.

"He never entered the classroom. He shoved his barrel through the window of the glass and
started spraying the room," Fuentes, a cadet with the school's Junior Reserve Officer Training
Corps, told Local 10 News. "When the shooting stopped, I looked up and I looked at the
window and he was standing there, just looking in. He had absolutely no facial expression
whatsoever."

Fuentes said she saw two 17-year-old students -- Helena Ramsay and Nicholas Dworet -- get
killed. They were among the 17 who died in the school shooting. She was shot in the left leg just
above the knee. She was among the dozens wounded who were hospitalized.

"The whole room was sprayed with bullets and I had one single balloon that I bought that day for
my mom, and it didn't pop," Fuentes said.

A classmate recorded a video that shows the bloodshed and the Valentine's Day balloon she
wasn't able to take home. The teenager spent several days at Broward Health North recovering.
She got to work as soon as she was released from the hospital.
If the shrapnel behind her eye migrates with time, Fuentes will have to undergo a very risky
procedure. She is also dealing with survivors' guilt. She said it is that feeling that is empowering
to tell her story and to do what she can to prevent this from happening to other students.

"Especially because, more than ever, we have a voice now," Fuentes said.

Aside from her two classmates, Fuentes also lost three fellow JROTC members, 14-year-old
cadets Alaina Petty and Martin Duque and 15-year-old Peter Wang.

Fuentes said she feels lucky to have survived.

Other mentions of people in the room

15) Sid says there is a Kelly

16) sid says Cameron

17) Isabel though unclear if she was ever in there

The whole point of showing all of this testimony to show the story as such: We have 15 kids or
so and a teacher describing a Room 1214. Students running, hiding, moving furniture. We
have a few accounts of Cruz’s face and eyes being covered, him never actually entering the room
but breaking the glass window by shooting through it.

(Here is a picture of room 1214 from the CBS interview, glass window:)

This is where we start putting all of this together. Here is a link to the CBS documentary about Parkland.
It will show the class from Room 1214 along with Matt Walker’s clip (just the start of it) twice. Again as
noted earlier, Matt Walker claims he took footage of Cruz shooting AS IT HAPPENED.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parkland-shooting-39-days-cbs-news-documentary-behind-the-
scenes-with-students-from-massacre-to-march/

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/39-days-a-cbs-news-documentary/
Here is a link to Matt’s FULL SNAPCHAT OF THIS EVENT. As we will be able to see, the snapchat was cut
short for most news reports:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfMTTFrDeJW/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_profile
_upsell_test

Some interesting things happen when we see the FULL snapchat video:
1) We only see maybe 4 students on the ground in a corner…where are the rest of them?

2) The camera pans to the rest of the room which appears to be empty

3)
(I have parts of this from an ABC news clip as well as the snapchat. Sorry for any overlap),

As we can see, the rest of the room is empty. We can’t see by the door, but still….are 10 students
minimum lined up right by the door?
Then this happens….
Matt’s full snap shows this “laptop with bullet holes in it”. Why are the “holes” the same size and white?
If they were indeed holes, they would match the wall. Why is the screen still on? Why aren’t the walls
and window messed up? Wasn’t there a barrage of bullets shot into the room as everyone described?
The water bottle looks fine. There is even a rose in a turquoise bag on the table for Valentines’ day
which we saw earlier in the open classroom frames. How is the screen still on at all, why isn’t it cracked
and just black? Who the heck writes that right after a shooting just happened in the room?

Here’s a great video on this by “Realtiy Check” on bitchute:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/dLzA1yejn7eR/

Something is obviously really odd here.

We keep noticing that witness testimony DOES NOT MATCH UP WITH VIDEOS TAKEN INSIDE THE
SCHOOL. Between all the cops running around, breaking glass, mishandling “victims”, odd miraculous
recoveries and tales of heroism, something seems to be off here. If the laptop is indeed fake, or a screen
saver of sorts that discredits that a shooting happened inside the room, especially at the moment that
Matt Walker said it occurred. Was it part of a drill? We see all the Valentine’s Day stuff which leaves me
to believe this was all footage taken on the same day. It’s still part of Matt’s snapchat, not some other
kid’s. Where were the rest of the kids in the room 1214? Where 6 were injured and 2 died?
We also see this girl from Room 1214:

Flower girl

http://abcnews.go.com/US/17-dead-horrific-florida-school-shooting-suspect-custody/story?id=53087462

Medical personnel tend to a victim following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, 2018.

John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP

At least 17 dead in 'horrific' Florida school shooting, suspect had 'countless magazines'

By Emily Shapiro, Feb 15, 2018, 12:47 AM ET

That’s odd, she just has a small bandage on her leg. That’s the same room where Samantha Fuentes
claimed to have “shrapnel behind her eye and in her cheek”.

Whatever happened to the darker girl on the floor from the other room and why was she not mentioned
in the news? That couldn’t have been Helena, as Helena was supposed to be in 1214. If that video was
1214, it certainly doesn’t match up to any testimony. Where were all the rifle cartridges in the hallway,
blood, smoke and glass? We keep seeing tons of cops with large guns running around yelling orders.
Why did everyone seem to be poised and ready for SWAT to “bust” into the room? What about those
students that claimed there were multiple shooters?
Additional video that shows the students and teacher of Room 1214 comparing themselves to Holocaust
survivors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0erC8dLFYfE&feature=youtu.be&a

While I understand Room 1214 was for Holocaust studies, I find the comparison to be highly offensive. It
is even more offensive when looked at under the context of all the evidence showing the shooting to
have been at the very least, not an organic event as proposed by the mainstream media.

I would like to follow up with additional information proving we have a history of there being drills done
at the school prior to this “event”:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/opinion/florida-guns-training-trump.html

By Carson Abt

Feb. 26, 2018

“Our school regularly has fire drills (as we did the morning of the shooting), tornado drills and lockdown
drills. Just six weeks ago, my teachers did a training session on active shooter situations, known as Code
Red. All doors must be locked, lights are turned off and students are kept in the classrooms away from
windows. For any type of emergency or drill, teachers must account for all their students. After the
training, the teachers discussed with the students in each of their classes what to do. We were told
where to hide and how to evacuate.”

President Trump with Carson Abt, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in the State Dining Room
of the White House on Wednesday.CreditShawn Thew/European Pressphoto Agency
In terms of actual actors on the scene, I would like to show the IMBD account of two students (sisters
Alicia and Emily Sucher) :Emily Sucher:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4887203/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/02/16/shooting-survivors-it-didnt-feel-real-ac.cnn

Alicia Sucher: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2835936/

 https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/florida/2018/02/15/marjory-stoneman-douglas-
high-school-shooting-closer-look/340126002/

More on the history of the Sucher sisters: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/967633872899862529.html

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Other rabbit holes worth exploring:

Jeff Kasky (Cameron Kasky’s father and One World Adoption Services)

https://www.neonrevolt.com/2018/02/27/jeff-kaskys-strange-scandal-ridden-history-with-one-world-
adoption-services/

Senator Lauren Book on the Parkland Commission and her dubious history

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article209677284.html

“ The commission includes three parents of Stoneman Douglas victims; seven members with law
enforcement ties, including FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen; three serving in school
systems; a prosecutor; a mental health expert; and Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation.”

http://www.bradenton.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article203049349.html

“The bill was ambitious, allowing human trafficking victims to sue the hotels that turn a blind
eye to their plight, yet it was sailing through the Florida Legislature…State Sen. Lauren Book,
D-Plantation, asked that the bill be postponed. With the Legislature in the final days of its
session, she effectively killed her own bill, advocates fear.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/07/dem-fla-senator-helps-pass-bill-give-charity-1-5-
mil-gop-gov-approves/

“A Democrat Florida state lawmaker helped pass a bill that allocated $1.5 million to a nonprofit
that she founded and pays her a six-figure salary and the state’s Republican governor approved
it. The legislator, state Senator Lauren Book, represents south Florida’s Broward county and in
2007 she founded a charity called Lauren’s Kids to educate adults and children about sexual
abuse prevention through school curricula, awareness campaigns and speaking engagements.”

https://laurenskids.org/

Overall Parkland info: http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/

Copy of CS/SB 7026: PUBLIC SAFETY: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/07026

Some Final thoughts on processing all of this:

Activism is difficult when so many ideas are co-opted, or we refused to ask ourselves if what we are
doing is working.

For instance, we are told our leverage is voting. We had Bush, Obama and now Trump. People voted, and
regardless every president bombed other countries without the approval of people or congress. There is no
checks and balances. When the power structure wants something, it doesn't vote. It just takes it through
violent means such as war.

So we have to take a step back and ask ourselves how effective is what we are doing, even if we need to
do SOMETHING. I think it's important to express concerns and it is important to march. But we need to
recognize that when power structures ignore our phone calls, letters AND voter suppression/ election
fraud exists, we are dealing with a janga of issues. The construction of our activism is faulty, in that we
need to address so many issues at the same time.

Again, I understand the sense of urgency and it is very hard not to react impulsively. We march for gun
reform, but do we do the tough work of truly understanding that criminals do not obey the law? That
often, law enforcement such as police and the FBI are aware of a potential shooter and yet seem to fail in
doing anything about it? Or, do we even read the house bills that are being passed regarding gun reform? I
think we do a disservice when we don't read those bills and don't see what policy has been passed.

I read the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Bill. Students that had mental health referrals have to notify the
school. Expansions to the baker act, such as reporting on suspicious behavior such as event a post of an
image of a gun warrants police the power to detain someone and force them to be assessed by a mental
health professional. The bill helps take away our privacy, stigmatizes mental health issues and gives more
power to the police. I don't think people got what they asked for. I think people are just naturally
responding to tragedy with the best of intentions. But again, ask ourselves- why must we give more power
to the FBI, the police of Broward county in Parkland that clearly failed?

And at the same time, we have to be honest. WE CANNOT CONTROL THE RANDOM. We are never
100% safe, it's not possible in life. And that is not to be dismissive- that is to recognize that power
structures with their own agendas will capitalize off of our fear. That is not to say those fears are not
justified- that means we have to do the hard work of really thinking about our actions and do our actions
result in the things we want to see.

Why is doing more of something that doesn't work the answer and if we are agreeing to things that do not
work is it because we feel like we have to do SOMETHING and if that is true, when all evidence points to
a result we do not want; this becomes about egos and not helping others. If you want to help others, you
have to admit when policy has failed us. It's tough, it really is.