Looks like the apple didn't fall far from the tree

And the situation with the Broward County Sheriff's Office just keeps getting worse.

Did “coward” cop Scot Peterson protect @brett_israel — son of Broward Sheriff @ScottJIsrael — for his alleged role in a “lewd and lascivious” assault on a 14 y/o?https://t.co/jElol8Etmx

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) May 25, 2018

The case involved two 17-year-old students bullying a 14-year-old freshman, with one holding down the younger boy by his ankles while the other kicked the victim, grabbed his genitals and then took the victim's own baseball bat and began shoving it against his buttocks, simulating rape, through the boy's clothes.  

One of those assailants, the boy who allegedly held down the victim, was Israel's son, Brett. Defense attorney Alex Arreaza, who represents shooting victim Anthony Borges, who was shot five times in the Valentine's Day massacre but survived, said the case could have led to felony charges.
"He could be charged with a lewd and lascivious, and I'm being conservative," Arreaza said.   

Peterson claims in the report that it was a "simple battery" under the board's discipline matrix, and he decided to give both of the boy's attackers a three-day suspension. 

I want you to put yourself in the shoes of a fourteen year old freshman.  You have been held down, restrained, had someone try to shove a baseball bat up your anus, and you've been publicly humiliated.  When you go to the authorities, your attackers are gone for three days, and then they're right back in school with you.  Threatening you.  Telling you what they'll be doing to you later.  And there's nothing you can do about it.

Do you really have to wonder why kids shoot up schools these days?  

Francis Porretto likes to remind people that the law is a substitute for violence, and if the law fails to punish the wrong-doers who have caused people harm, people can and will go back to violence.  I cannot think of any place where young men are assaulted, humiliated and tortured like they are in school.  Not all of them, of course.  In every feral society, there are those on top who do the torturing and assaulting.  But those on the bottom, who have no recourse, will eventually find a way to lash out at those who assault them on a daily basis.

Personally, I think we will see more school shootings, because our schools keep getting worse and worse, and we keep shoving our young men into institutions that criminalize them, drug them to the gills, and allow them to be tortured by bullies and thugs.  And there's no real way out for those young men.