Morning Jolt: Four Minutes of a Massacre that Demonstrate Why We Cannot Rely on the Police Alone

We know about the FBI getting a direct, detailed tip about Nikolas Cruz and never forwarding it to their Florida personnel.

We learned, in recent days, about the police responding 39 times to emergency calls at Cruz's home over a seven-year period.

It is easy to miss anecdotes about the shooter that are jaw-dropping:

Long before he slaughtered 17 people at the South Florida high school he once attended, Nikolas Cruz had a disturbing way of introducing himself.

“Hi, I’m Nick,” he used to say, according to an acquaintance interviewed by CNN. “I’m a school shooter.”

I'm rather stunned that someone can call 911 and say that you've put a gun to people's heads in the past, and they'll walk away after a mere conversation because you had "hugged and reconciled" with the person you threatened.

But ...

February 23 2018

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Four Minutes of a Massacre that Demonstrate Why We Cannot Rely on the Police Alone Jim Geraghty We know about the FBI getting a direct, detailed tip about Nikolas Cruz and never forwarding it to their Florida personnel. We learned, in recent days, about the police responding 39 times to emergency calls at Cruz's home over a seven-year period. It is easy to miss anecdotes about the shooter that are jaw-dropping: Long before he slaughtered 17 people at the South Florida high school he once attended, Nikolas Cruz had a disturbing way of introducing himself. “Hi, I’m Nick,” he used to say, according to an acquaintance interviewed by CNN. “I’m a school shooter.” I'm rather stunned that someone can call 911 and say that you've put a gun to people's heads in the past, and they'll walk away after a mere conversation because you had "hugged and reconciled" with the person you threatened. But ... Read More Top Stories High Fascist Models Romanticized rebellion threads through The Young Karl Marx; Double Lover provides an antidote to Millennial sexual... The Gun-Control Debate Could Break America The Gun-Control Debate Could Break America ADVERTISEMENT An Epidemic of Dishonesty on the Right Is there any act of depravity to which the less respectable right-wing media can't imagine a connection for George... Steel Tariffs Do Not Advance National Security The false pretenses of Trump's latest protectionist... Pawns in Their Game A new production of the musical Chess is too much influenced by present-day political... Good Time: A Spellbinding Bank-Robbery Thriller Good Time is one of the most under-appreciated, riveting films of... ADVERTISEMENT What NR is Reading The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 James D. Hornfischer "A masterful account of the barbaric last year of the Pacific War...The Fleet at Flood Tide is, quite simply, popular and scholarly military history at its best." - Victor Davis Hanson LEARN MORE Photo Essays Cartoons of the Day: February 22nd, 2018 Farming without Machines ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.