FBI
Tipster Transcript Leaked: Cruz Will "Get Into A School And
Shoot The Place Up": Full Text
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February, 2018
Update: Amid
public demands for transparency, the Broward Police have released the
full list of 23
calls for
service to the home
of attacker Nikolas Cruz, in a desperate bid to deflect criticism
over handling the Parkland school shooting.
The final call, however,
just like the transcript from the January 5 call discussed below,
shows that serious
concerns were not acted on.
“In
the interest of full transparency, we are making available the list
of all 23 calls for service at the Cruz home,” the sheriff’s
office said
in a Friday tweet.
“18 involved Nikolas Cruz. None appeared arrestable under Florida
law. However, two of the calls remain under internal investigation.”
As
color coded in the list, the most serious warning came on November
30, 2017, when
a caller located in Massachusetts advised that Cruz was collecting
knives and was likely to conduct a school shooting.
The caller was concerned Cruz would kill himself and “be a school
shooter in the making.” They believed that Cruz’s weapons were
kept at a friend's house.
The
incident was categorized as ‘suspicious’ by Broward County Police
but no report was initiated, according to the document. That call is
now under Internal Affairs review and investigation, the document
shows
In
two incidents from 2012, Nikolas fought with his brother, Zachary,
and hit his mother, Linda Cruz, with a plastic vacuum cleaner hose.
In 2013, Linda told police Nikolas threw her against a wall because
she confiscated his Xbox games console. The following year, he
punched the wall after she took away the Xbox again. Later, in 2014,
a neighbor reported Nikolas had shot at his chickens with an airsoft
rifle, a replica of a real gun that shoots plastic pellets. In a
"suspicious incident" recorded in 2016, an Instagram report
said that Cruz was going to “shoot up a school.” The Instagram
post involved a picture of guns.
A
pdf of the full list of service calls can be found at the following
link.
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Earlier
A
person close to Nikolas Cruz, the teenager accused of killing 17
people at a Florida high school on Valentines day, warned the
FBI she was concerned Cruz would "get
into a school and just shoot the place up," according
to a leaked transcript of her call to the bureau's tip line one
month before the massacre.
Earlier
A
person close to Nikolas Cruz, the teenager accused of killing 17
people at a Florida high school on Valentines day, warned the
FBI she was concerned Cruz would "get
into a school and just shoot the place up," according
to a leaked transcript of her call to the bureau's tip line one
month before the massacre.
The
transcript, seen by the Wall Street Journal, provides chilling detail
about the woman’s efforts on
January 5, just over a month before the February 14 tragedy, to
warn authorities about Nikolas Cruz’s propensity for violence and
his troubled past.
Tragically,
the FBI was busier with other things.
“You
know, it’s just so much,” said the caller. “I
know he’s—he’s going to explode.”
The woman said she was making the call because she wanted a “clear
conscience if he takes off and, and just starts shooting places up,”
according to the transcripts which were reviewed by the Wall Street
Journal.
While
the FBI last week acknowledged receiving such a call, the transcript,
and the stark nature of the caller’s precise warnings about Cruz’s
disturbing actions and volatile temperament, previously hasn’t been
made public
“It’s
alarming to see these pictures and to know what he’s capable of
doing and what could happen,” the caller continued. “He’s
[been] thrown out of all these schools because he would pick up a
chair and just throw it at somebody, a teacher or a student, because
he didn’t like the way they were talking to him.”
She
also said that Cruz was due to inherit $25,000 a year, from a life
insurance policy, and she was worried that he would spend it on guns.
Psychopath
The
concerned Cruz acquaintance also told the FBI that he mutilated
frogs, and at least on one occasion, a bird.
“He brought the bird into the house,” she recounted. “He threw it on his mother’s kitchen counter and he started cutting it up. He has all kinds of hunting knives. I don’t know what knife he used, though. And he started cutting the bird up, and his mother…said, ‘What’re you doing?’ And he says, ‘I want to see what’s inside.’”
The
caller then said, “That
to me would be a red flag.”
Apparently
not so much to the FBI, which admitted last week that it failed to
forward the call to the Miami field office for investigation.
The
FBI also admitted that the Bureau had investigated a school shooting
threat made on YouTube last year but could not identify person behind
it - despite Nikolas
Cruz using his real name to sign the threat which
quite literally says "Im
going to be a professional school shooter."
The
man who reported Cruz, Ben Bennight, spoke with the FBI last
year for about 20 minutes, and there
was no follow-up from the FBI after that initial conversation.
Then,
Bennight told CBS that he again spoke with the FBI on Wednesday night
for about 20 minutes. They wanted to know if he knew anything
more after first reporting the YouTube video last year. He said the
same agent/agents he spoke with last year came to his home Wednesday.
Furthermore,
as we reported earlier today, CNN's FOIA of Broward County 911
records has produced a steady stream of scoops about Parkland, Fla.
school shooter Nikolas Cruz fleshing out much of what is publicly
known about Cruz's background and the various reports made warning
the FBI and other authorities about his threatening behavior.
The
police were warned about Cruz's violent past - that he'd
"used a gun against people before" and had "put the
gun to others' heads in the past" - but still they did nothing.
The
FBI last week issued a statement disclosing that the call wasn’t
passed on to its Miami field office for investigation.
“Under
established protocols, the information provided by the caller should
have been assessed as a potential threat to life,” the FBI said.
“The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami
field office, where appropriate investigative steps would have been
taken.”
The
FBI and the Justice Department are investigating why the lead wasn’t
followed up.
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In
addition to the FBI's monumental failure and a
steady stream of 911 calls about Cruz,
video evidence revealed that an armed Broward County resource
deputy stationed at Stoneman Douglas High School during the
Valentine's day massacre did
"nothing" during
the shooting - instead waiting outside as a gunman opened fire on
students and teachers.
The
officer, Scot Peterson, resigned shortly after being placed on
leave.
"We're
not going to disclose the video at this time, and we may never
disclose the video depending on the prosecution and the criminal
case,"said
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.
"These
families lost their children, we lost coaches. I've been to the
funerals. I've been to the homes where they're sitting shiva. I've
been to the vigils. It's
just, there are no words."
When
asked by a reporter what the deputy should have done, the Sheriff
replied "Went
in. Address the killer. Kill the killer."
Meanwhile,
the anti-2nd Amendment crowd continues to peddle children around to
try and strip law abiding Americans of their right to bear arms -
ignoring the fact that had the FBI and Broward County
authorities simply done their jobs, 17 people would still be with
us.
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See full .pdf HERE
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