Real Lawyer Reacts: Scot Peterson Closing Arguments 

As a teacher this one is hitting close to home. My heart goes out to Peterson. Why does he not have an appropriate communication system?! It was a known issue! I can’t get past that. I’d bet the football team has better equipment than he had. I bet they wouldn’t allow sports to go with second rate safety systems. So why allow the radio to not function properly?! If he’s a caregiver then he needs constant contact with anyone who might require assistance.

I think the comment the judge went off about was TRUTH! An injustice against SP does not give justice to the victims.

Boy I'm really struggling with this one. But in the end, I think for those looking to place blame, there is plenty to go around, beginning with Nikolas Cruz. Let's not forget that. And I do not believe the state met the burden of proving Peterson acted with gross, flagrant utter disregard. This is also such a slippery slope, IMO when we start holding SROs criminally negligent. Civilly, maybe. Just so sad all around.

I know nothing about being a lawyer; if I were a juror on this case? The prosecution would have lost me right when they are trying to tell me what Peterson was thinking and purposely keeping people away from helping the sweet kids. That is such a far reach.

After hearing all evidence and testimony, I as a potential juror would stand by a Not Guilty plea across the board.

I'm glad to hear that you liked his closing because I was worried when uncivil law said it was a mess. When no conviction peterson should get his lawyer fees reimbursed by the state.

I’m shocked we haven’t gotten a verdict!!

I’m on rewatch NOT guilty

This trial is so upsetting to me and still deliberating. Just don’t understand how this man is facing possible 90+ years when he was very active in the position he was in during the shooting! I’ve watched this entire trial and feel the defense did a great job backing Peterson with their witnesses and the prosecutors witnesses! He did save lives trying to protect the entire school

Love your videos Peter! So much so that I rewatched a whole video I’ve seen before 🤣

This case is prime example why we shouldn't arm our teachers...they already don't get paid near enough to do their job but to be worried that if you can't stop a school annihilator you'll be charged too? Dafuq? I'm sorry but eff that.

No one knew exactly where the sounds came from but literally everyone else moved 😂

The Prosecutor's swim and drowning analogy doesn’t hold water. Speaking of omissions: She neglected to mention the fatal missing component in that faulty analogy ...that a child is being forcibly drowned by someone that you can't see and then are blamed for not stopping it!

And he wouldn’t know until after that calls were going to the other agency and a patch was needed until after. This entire case is insane.

He is NOT GUILTY!

I feel terrible for Mr. Peterson! Is this how we treat our Law enforcement officers? Call them cowards and say they are responsible for the deaths of children?? It's a sad day if this is what we're doing 😢

Thankyou, Peter 🙏

The first issue lies with the Federal government not providing ample protection funding to the states. Next, the State of Florida failed its county school districts by not passing legislation mandating preventative measures (e.g., video surveillance, guard-monitored fenced and gated campuses, metal detectors at entries, keyless entries for staff with self-locking doors, staff emergency notification systems that notify local law enforcement, and legitimate staff training) for each school campus/facility in the state. Finally, the local school district must prioritize student safety over other costly initiatives. Scott Peterson is the scapegoat. As a current teacher in a public school system, I am considered a caregiver. We have a specific protocol for emergency-shooter scenarios. We are instructed to shelter in a lockdown stance (to hide). The expectation is for the teacher and students to be sitting ducks while waiting for the shooter to pass by or arrive. That is crazy. If you go against protocol to save your students, you could be held responsible if someone is harmed. The lack of a protocol that the SRO felt comfortable and confident with shows that safety measures were actually not in place. Scott Peterson did not kill those students, the shooter did.

Thank you Peter for your insight. I am praying for a not guilty verdict

I feel so bad for Mr Peterson.

Is this a reupload from yesterday or am I crazy - if he is found guilty I have lost faith in the justice system

I’m shocked that the jury has been deliberating for over 8 hours and no verdict. Hopefully we get NG tomorrow. Otherwise it will be a hung jury.

In my opinion, it is completely unreasonable to believe that this man with his one weapon could have prevented the carnage.

I think this is going to be a hung jury. With as passionate as people have been in this chat, I don’t see anyone just switching to the other side to end the process. Those of us who feel he is innocent are mad charges were even brought lol and the people who believe that he is somehow responsible are so passionate about it. I don’t see them changing their minds either.

This guy wasn't responsible for that crazy shooter. If he is guilty for not helping the children then the parents need to found guilty for creating a freak of a child who would do that to begin with. It's sick that people go after anyone just because they need to blame someone.

This case fascinates me… all I know is my son is LEO and he was absolutely disgusted by Peterson. Then again, School Resource Officers are generally older and chose to work at a school because they don’t want to be “on the street” anymore (just my opinion).

So theyre saying he should have run in, gun drawn, without knowing who, gow many, how many guns, etc. Youre obligated by law to simply run DIRECTLY into the line of fire without backup or inowledge of the actual situation? 1 man, by himself? Ummm....you couldn't pay me enough to take that job!

The caregiver angle is SUCH A STRETCH! Prosecutor should have never brought this case. Certainly hope there's an acquittal by the jury.

What do they want to be at schools? Heavily armed SWAT officers? I doubt many school cops would have been able to deal with the situation that happened.

Justice was served 100% like it should have !! God bless him and all the families

This is a re upload from the live last night ?

First of all I thought about the Coach, He faced Cruz. And I honestly believe the coach would not want Peterson even standing trial! I understand,When you sign up to be an officer, to serve and protect… BUT Nobody knows, Truly how they would react in a situation like this. You just might Freeze. Your mind may tell you to GO, but you don’t! I believe he suffered enough.

It amazing me that they are going after Scott Peterson like this when they have done nothing towards all those officers in Uvalde for standing around doing nothing when they were right outside the room where the shooting was happening. They just stood around doing nothing when they knew exactly where the shooter was at.

I see what everyone is saying, that it was a horrific situation and he froze. I probably would too. However, I’m guessing a bunch of us who think we wouldn’t handle this well have not chosen to become police officers. Also, didn’t he prevent other officers from going in? Guilty.

Sound is working fine for me

Yeah that caregiver role is a stretch!

I never saw our SRO in a vest or with a rifle.

There was no excuse for the defense attorney getting Danielle Gilbert's name wrong. Not only did he pronounce it as Daniel, but it was spelled that way on his slide show.

Like your content but the audio needs be worked on lol either mic lowered or video higher lol turning up volume to hear video then boom loud mic lol

Amazing split screens & audio but it’s freaking me out 🙈

Peter, Why are you playing Eigliarsh at 1.5x speed??

Her hands make her statements seem flippant.🥴

Who will ever want to take this job of SRO if they find him guilty? This should never have gone to trial.

peter: THANK YOU for all your hard work - 'overworked,' i'd say. ❤️-yo nana

my message to the prosecutors: For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee. THEE‼️

Love to see the rebuttal reaction

I haven't seen any trials for law enforcement in Uvalde, TX. That was Gross, Flagrant, Utter Disregard!!

I need to think on it and review the facts more before I can really decide one way or the other, but I'm leaning towards thinking that Peterson shouldn't be held criminally responsible. I'm not sold on the argument that he's a caregiver in the context of that law. He was responsible for the safety of the students, true, but only in the way that he was responsible for public safety and also assigned to the school, and that's pretty central to much of the State's case. If this was a case of freezing in the face of danger, I don't think that should be held criminal. If he knowingly *avoided* helping, that would be different, but as I said, I need to look back at the facts and think on it all a little longer before I've made up my mind.

Why does the prosecution get to bring up the victims, but the defense doesn't get to say that the the victims were unquestionably harmed by someone else.

Her argument that police are "caregivers" has wide spread implications. I'm surprised LE backed this prosecution.

Blaming an old man whilst the Government sends “thoughts and prayers” for the thousands of American children slaughtered every year whilst attending school SMH

Hello! Thank for all your amazing content. Request here .. hopping you can cover a trial taking placing in Laredo Texas. Currently in day 4.. “Mistress and Child Murder Trial TX vs Ronald Burgos-Aviles”

Should he hang up his badge? Maybe. But prison? Come on now.

The judge wants this case to cool off a bit im sure ... so would everyone else ...by the time the trial comes around there should be a drop off thats a good thing .

These closing arguments were awesome. Kudos to Mark Eiglarsh! Does anyone remember when Mark Eiglarsh was a commentator for the Jodi Arias trial on various TV stations.

AGREE Boss…makes NO sense to me.

I restarted a few times now I can hear

BUT the Defense systematically found big holes in each one of their testimonies.

I’m late to this case, love your coverage! Can Scot Peterson sue the state? His whole character was destroyed and a completely unfair smear of a professional. Just curious.

It is rare that I am on the side of the defense, BUT this is a witch hunt, IMO. I feel for the parents' loss, but the defense attorney is right, Cruz did this, not Scot! They're upset Cruz didn't get the DP, and they just want someone else to pay for Cruz's bad sentence.

Could you please do a live with Harsh Reality, he has mentioned and praised your work and channel, it would be good for you both if you could do a live together...please. Something I would like to see, and others too I guess 😊 Please reach out to him xx

Now I don't know the case, but there is supreme court case law that says in no uncertain terms that the police have no duty to protect any specific person. I understand that is in the context of being sued in a civil case, but doesn't that concept cut against the idea that peterson has any specific duty to protect any of the kids specifically? If he doesn't have that duty, wouldn't that lead him to NOT being a care giver?

no matter what the outcome is who will these parents attack next? It is tragic but they need to move on with their life.

How is this jury still out??

Is the volume off???

No sound unfortunately

No way do I agree Peterson was ever a “caregiver”… is may be a licensed LEO but as a school resource officer in reality he was little more than glorified security. Not a Caregiver. Teachers, administrators, those are the care givers.

Is it just me or there's no sound?

Wow! Tape so fast I can't understand!

No audio

When did we stop blaming the shooters themselves? Peterson may be morally guilty, but criminally guilty? This sounds like a civil case not a criminal case. As for parents of minors who are grossly negligent or try to cover up for their children, then yes bring charges. *Appropriate* charges

This case is so sad.

Uvalde cops better hope Peterson is found NG....if Peterson is guilty, those cops gonna get the DP 10× over

I can't see officer Peterson getting convicted of these allegations!

See you in your next video!!

They need to leave the cop alone. He was a victim like everyone else. If this is being pushed by the victims's families, they are mentally deranged and are pigs that don't fly straight. If the families really want justice, the persons who should on trial is the Snead Family, the family that Nikolas Cruz was staying with when did the shooting. They were the ones who allowed him to keep the guns in the house and they are ones that made it possible to allow Nikolas Cruz to do the shooting in the first place. If anyone is cupable, the Snead Family was. I'm surprised the Snead Family hasn't been sued for wrongful death 17 times. (The number of victims killed.) It's amazing we talk so little about the Snead Family and how they allowed this to happend. They say the Scot Peterson was cargiver to students but it was the Snead Family that was the caregiver of Nikolas Cruz and they are really the people who guilty of neglect.

Reloaded. Third time was the Charm.

It's not his responsibility no one knew where the shots came from

34:14 could the defense have objected to this - it seems improper

Now that I know what happened, I think S.P. is NOT guilty.

Peter will probably fix it and re-upload the video.

I don't think that interview was the best!

Blame the communication system. Teachers carry radios but Mr. Peterson isn't advised as to where the shooter is. Cops off site have info that he doesn't have access to.

No sound 😢

The prosecutions argument doesn’t even make sense!!

This case is whack. Total overreach and not how we want to set things up for people moving forward. Negligence yes, criminal....no way.

Where I am struggling is he said on the radio 1200 building a few times

So why didn’t the cop do his job ?

When will you do another melly video

Wasn’t this on last night?

I don’t see the relevance of these examples.

Definitely no sound

Just in he’s been found not guilty!!❤

I was a teacher, and although I was responsible for the children for my class, yes I was also responsible for all children in the school and could reprimand them if I saw something wrong, I think this lawyer is given a bad statement on responsibility/caring for kids in school, when we enter school grounds we all become one to all students until that last one leaves. Then we start the process over again the next day!! Just saying 🤣

We are a teaching family.Peter, security at our schools, security are well-known to all students . All staff are caregivers in different ways our district but helping keep the kids safe is primary. Peterson did his job. Peterson is not guilty.It's true ,intercoms can crackle,there is echoing in all schools in our district and often walked talkees and cell phones don't work in parts of campus sometimes. That's a district problem. It's not a good idea for an officer to carry a weapon at all times in all schools. And.security needs to be given walkies that work everywhere. it's confusing on a lockdown ,despite many practices. Lives we're lost ,young lives and Peterson did do something. I'm so sorry there was a shooting. He's not guilty imo.

I hear him fine

This whole case is BS. It should have never been brought. What’a happening to Scot Peterson should care all law enforcement officers.

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They should charge every cop on the uvalde police force then too.

So, now SRO's are supposed to carry a rifle while on duty on school campuses at all times? Are we really going to militarize our schools more than the already are?