The father of a student who was murdered during the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting celebrated the arrest of Scot Peterson, the school’s resource officer on duty that day, calling him an “embarrassment” to police everywhere.

“That's your job, that's your duty. Most of these guys would go in [to the school],” Andrew Pollack said during an interview with Washington Examiner. “This guy is an embarrassment to law enforcement.”

Pollack’s daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 students killed in the Parkland, Fla., attack and has since dedicated his life to advocacy for stricter school safety measures and the elimination of gun-free zones in the U.S.

Surveillance cameras caught Peterson running away from the school building while students were being executed inside.

Peterson, nicknamed the "coward of Broward," was arrested Tuesday and charged with seven counts of neglect of a child, three counts of culpable negligence, and one count of perjury.



Andrew Pollack, Scot Peterson. (AP)

Pollack says the perjury charge stems from a deposition Peterson underwent as part of a wrongful death investigation carried out by the Department of Law Enforcement.

“He lied numerous times,” Pollack said. “Not knowing where the shooter was … He lied to officers that pulled up on the scene. He told them to stay back.”

The lawsuit alleges that Peterson’s hesitation to defend the children he was in charge of protecting directly resulted in their deaths.

The Stoneman Douglas massacre is just one example, Pollack claims, of the danger public schools across the country are putting students in by allowing at-risk children to share a classroom with what he called “good kids.”

“There's no accountability or discipline,” Pollack said. “Kids need a program that works. Problem kids and kids that are committing crimes ... They put them in schools with good kids.”

Peterson brought his Bible to the deposition, Pollack said, “and now, he can bring it to prison.”