Deputies with the Broward Country Sheriff’s Office in Florida were ordered not to go into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while students were being slaughtered inside by crazed gunman Nikolas Cruz.

Sources say the shocking reason for the decision to not help victims is that the deputies did not have body cameras on them.

“Our sources near the Broward County sheriff’s department are telling us that the deputies who arrived at the scene of the shooting were told not to enter the school unless their body cameras were turned on,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said (video below). “Then we found out that the deputies did not have body cameras, so they did not enter the building or engage the shooter.”

It’s unclear who issued the order for deputies to stand idly by as a deadly crisis erupted around them. It’s likely the death count could have been mitigated had law enforcement done their jobs, which was to protect children.

Ingraham added: “Curiously, police also lost radio communications during the Parkland shooting. And our source claims that radio communication also went dead during the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting in 2017 that [Sheriff Scott Israel] also got a lot of criticism for.”

This is the latest shocking revelation that spotlights the epic incompetence and possible criminal negligence of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. As BizPac Review previously reported, when Nikolas Cruz started gunning down students at his former high school, the armed security guard on duty — Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson — never went into the building once he learned a shooter was inside.

Moreover, three other sheriff’s deputies also stood outside the school in their safe spaces while kids were being shot to death.

Now we know why Nikolas Cruz easily escaped after murdering 17 people during frantic manhunt https://t.co/GFwKhdiTw4 pic.twitter.com/mT9o9BdV4d — Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) February 24, 2018

What’s more, the security cameras at the high school were reportedly on a 20-minute delay, so law enforcement was unable to locate Cruz due to the staggered timing of the footage they relied on to find him.

These jaw-dropping findings have led many angry Americans to demand the firing of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, a Hillary Clinton super-fan who’s demanded stricter gun-control laws.

Broward Co. Sheriff Scott Israel is a Hillary backer. He is now calling for gun control after officers were called to Cruz's house 39 times and did nothing to stop the killer. @ScottIsrael @browardsheriff People have the right to protect themselves when law officials won't! pic.twitter.com/Ws0zvII2aV — Deplorable Tigerfan (@Auburngirlx) February 17, 2018

While Sheriff Israel has been showboating on TV, claiming his leadership has been “amazing,” 74 state lawmakers have asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to “immediately” suspend Israel for his “incompetence and dereliction of duty” in his gross handling of the deadly shooting.

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Meanwhile, liberals have stepped up their calls for more gun control while ignoring the fact that the local police and the FBI ignored multiple credible tips alerting them that Nikolas Cruz was homicidal and had repeatedly threatened to shoot up his school.