“I don't know how you live with yourself every day, man. You were the one who was supposed to go inside. You didn't. You know I was a student there that day, in the building right next to it and fourteen of my classmates are never coming back because you didn't act.”

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Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the February 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, that claimed the lives of 17 people, including students and staff members, just over a year ago, confronted former school resource officer Scot Peterson, asking him why he failed to enter the building and engage shooter Nikolas Cruz.

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