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  • 2018-04-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Second Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Die After 'Exposing' the Parkland Shooting? (en)
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  • On 25 April 2018, the Sheriff's Office in Broward County, Florida, announced the death of sheriff's deputy Marshall Lawrence Peterson, a 28-year veteran of that office: Conspiracy sites promptly attempted to link Peterson's death with that of Jason Fitzsimons, who passed away on 1 April 2018. Sites such as Your News Wire attempted to connect the two deaths by claiming that both men had exposed the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Broward County community of Parkland: The two deaths did have several factors in commons: both men worked for the Broward County Sheriff's Office, both passed away relatively young (Fitzsimons was 42, Peterson was 53), and in neither case was a cause of death announced. And neither of the deceased was said to have been suffering from health problems, to have been killed in an accident, or to have been the victim of a homicide. However, the lack of stated causes of death, combined with the use of common euphemistic language (Fitzsimons' obituary notes that he died unexpectedly, while Peterson was said to have died at his residence) suggests suicide as a likely cause of death in each case, rather than a mysterious plot to do in all those who have dared to question the official narrative of the Parkland shooting. Moreover, neither man exposed anything about that shooting — Fitzsimons simply posted social media criticisms of a number of persons associated with that event (primarily teen activist David Hogg), and Peterson had no connection to the Parkland shooting at all that we could find. (The Broward County Sheriff told us that Fitzsimons' death was not considered suspicious and had no connection to his social media postings about the high school shooting.) The Your News Wire article offered no explanation or information regarding what Peterson might have exposed about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, or how might have done so. The article simply rehashed elements of Fitzsimons’ death and social media postings without saying much of anything about Peterson at all, beyond noting that he had passed away with no cause of death stated. In short, two men died in the same month, with no substantive connection (remarkable or otherwise) between them other than that they were both among the more than 2,800 deputies employed by the Broward County Sheriff's Office. (en)
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