S. Fla. Cop Suspended for Questioning Parkland High Shooting Deaths

A South Florida police officer has been suspended after he claimed the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High are lies, the SunSentinel is reporting.

North Miami Beach police officer Ericson Harrell was suspended for 40 hours and received a written reprimand, according to the newspaper. North Miami Beach is about an hour south of the Parkland high school where 17 people were gunned down in February.

He had been under investigation since April after questioning on Facebook if the shooting deaths in Parkland ever happened, the newspaper said. He had also called student activists “paid actors,” according to the Sentinel.

The paper said a review of his posts showed he questioned the deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. He also was reported to have posted a video about the Auschwitz death camp that claimed tour guides are told to tell lies.

Harrell has returned to road patrol. He is “going to rethink about what he posts,” going forward, a police spokesman told the newspaper.

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