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Stevens worried about his staff and himself. In early June, he sent an e-mail to a State Department official in Washington asking that two six-man Mobile Security Detachments, known as MSD teams, of specially trained DS agents be allowed to remain in Libya through the national elections being held in July and August. Stevens wrote that State Department personnel “would feel much safer if we could keep two MSD teams with us through this period [to support] our staff and [provide a personal detail] for me and the [Deputy Chief of Mission] and any VIP visitors.” The request was denied, Stevens was told, because of staffing limitations and other commitments.

The morning after the shooting, Kenny watched the first press conference at MSD. Superintendent Runcie said: Students have been reaching out to me, reaching out to staff, probably board members and others saying that now, now is the time for this country to have a real conversation on sensible gun control laws in this country. So, our students are asking for that conversation. And I hope that we can get it done in this generation, but if we don’t, they will.1 Kenny yelled at the TV, “Can’t you just fucking wait until the bodies are buried?” Kenny didn’t have strong opinions on gun control, and no one in his family owned a gun. But the morning after a mass murder seemed way too soon to make any kind of political argument. He only grew angrier when Runcie called on the Florida Legislature to allocate more funding to mental health. Later in the press conference, Sheriff Israel admitted, “There are some bodies that are still in the school. It’s a process.” That’s when something inside of Kenny flipped. The bodies of children who had been murdered under Runcie’s leadership were still lying on the schoolhouse floor directly behind him, and he had already started politicking.

Cruz’s first day as a full-time MSD student was January 11, 2016. On February 5, 2016, a woman called the Broward sheriff’s office to report an Instagram post in which Cruz showed off a gun and wrote, “I am going to get this gun and shoot up the school.” The officer who responded to the call, Edward Eason, informed the woman that Cruz’s Instagram post “was protected by the First Amendment right of free speech.”1 When the woman asked Eason whether there would be any way to prevent Cruz from buying a gun when he turned eighteen, the officer told her that his right to purchase a firearm was protected by the Second Amendment and nothing could be done. Eason was wrong on both counts. Threatening to shoot up a school is a felony that, if successfully prosecuted, could have prohibited Cruz from buying a firearm. (And even if Cruz was not convicted, an arrest could have gone a long way toward law enforcement taking future reports about Cruz seriously.) But Eason declined even to write a police report about the call, a decision for which he later received a three-day suspension. He did, however, according to his logs, notify MSD’s school resource officer, Scot Peterson.

Reflecting on it, one longtime MSD teacher said, “As long as I have been here, whatever an ESE parent wants, they get. No one ever challenges an ESE parent or kid because it’s not worth the risk of litigation.” Regarding discipline, the teacher added, “Why bother? The parent will just say it wasn’t the kid’s fault.

Maria Colavito, a retired special education support facilitator at MSD who dealt with the shooter during his junior year, told Kenny that he was on the right track. She told Kenny that she once asked School Resource Officer Scot Peterson why 18–1958 had not been arrested and Peterson replied, “It’s this PROMISE program stuff. My hands are tied.

On December 14, 2015, Cruz’s IEP team decided to allow him to attend MSD full time. Cruz had made progress in the intensive therapeutic setting of Cross Creek, where well-trained professionals could watch him like a hawk. But when he transitioned to MSD, his old “behavior management” plan was discontinued and no new plan was created. Teachers were left uninformed about who this student was, what to watch for, and how to support him. Looking back on the transition, Bone lamented, “They just threw him to the wolves.

On paper, Cruz’s first semester at MSD was a great success. Although she knew it wasn’t true, with only one disciplinary incident officially recorded, Bone could not write anything to the contrary on his IEP update at the end of the year. She did not return to MSD the next school year. She moved out of Broward County altogether.

Bone voiced her concerns to MSD’s assistant principal for ESE, Denise Reed, on November 6, 2015. Bone told us that she does not believe that Reed had read Cruz’s IEP. Bone told Reed that Cruz was dangerous and it would be a grave mistake to mainstream him full time. Bone recalled that Reed told her to “stay in your lane” because these decisions were not hers to make.

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