Eighteen Sheriff's Deputies Waited 500 Yards Away
While A Burglar Terrorized A 70-Year-Old Disabled Man
There is no legal obligation for police officers to protect citizens.
It wasn't just Norkunas involved in this.
The man trying to break into his home had attempted to do the same thing at other houses in the neighborhood.
911 was besieged by calls from Norkunas' neighbors.
But apparently nothing they said made the Broward County Sheriff's Department any more willing to confront the reported burglar.
For this entire ordeal, deputies waited hundreds of feet away, apparently waiting for the problem to solve itself.
Instead of stopping the would-be-intruder at Norkunas’ door, witnesses said,
the deputies stayed down the street and around a corner, some 500 yards away
while Norkunas and his neighbors flooded the 911 emergency communications system begging for help for almost 15 minutes.
18 deputies stood by while this information was relayed, never moving for the fifteen minutes it took for
the burglar to give up and surrender to law enforcement.
Broward County Sheriff's Department --
the same department that received deserved heat for its inadequate response to the Parkland school shooting in 2019 --
has offered no satisfactory explanation for this lack of effort when citizens' lives were on the line.
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